Notes

• The peeries made me crazy - did not line up and did not seem to correspond with the directions at the sides.

• Recommend starting the chart at least 3 stitches away from the steek, as otherwise you will have 1/2 a peerie, which will get mostly lost in picking up buttonbands.

• Do the fronts to match, and wing it for the sides. The pattern directions did not seem to work. I ended up removing a peerie at the side for row 3, due to decreases. I think a bigger space between peeries at the side looks better than more peeries jammed together.

• only 4 waist decreases, about 5 rows apart. 6 seemed like a lot for me.

• approx 20 inches unblocked at side seam at the sleeve join.

• used 5.0 mm needle for the colourwork, and 4.5 mm for the rest including the peeries. -knit the sleeves to 18 inches. Note - put half the underarm stitches on waste yarn from each side of the beginning of the round, other wise the sleeve seam doesn’t line up with the side seam.

• At sleeve join I had 37 fronts (vs. 32, as I hadn’t started the neck decreases yet) plus steek, 52 sleeve (per pattern) and 77 back (vs. 75 - no idea how that happened!). I wanted my neck decreases to start later so the V isn’t as low.

-6 buttonholes. The pattern has them on the left side, as you do them on row 5 of the buttonband. I followed the pattern, instead of doing them on the right side as every other sweater, just for fun. The pattern refers to 3-stitch buttonholes but the directions given are for 2-stitch, which is too small for this sweater. Just do 1 more passed-over stitch at the front (3 total) then cast on 4. That gives you 3 stitches of buttonhole.

Shawl Collar
Place markers at neck decrease start. For me, after the sleeve joins. 85 stitches from bottom, and 32 stitches before the first raglan shoulder detail.
Row 7 of buttonband (buttonholes were on row 5) - w&t 2 stitches before second marker. Repeat. Following rows knit in pattern to 2 stitches before wrapped stitch then w&t, so you end up with 1 stitch between each wrapped stitch. I did German short rows. 9 turns total each side.

Cherry for MC.
CC1 - Betty Draper’s Blues
CC2 - Onyx
CC3 - Tern
CC4 - Candlewick

Following the chart, MC (Cherry) does not touch CC4 (Candlewick), which is good (except in the one row of peeries). All the other colours (blue, gray and black) touch the Cherry and each other -OK.

Colour options, top down - Lolita, Heuchera, Tern - picked the Tern.

Proposed Mods:

• shawl collar like this one? Or CC stripe before the buttonband, like this one?
• knit top-down? (decided against it, as I want to make the fronts wider at the top)

KAL with Maggy, because we hyper’d each other into a frenzy one day, with her Erin-need and my colourwork-need.

My gauge knitting Erin is 16 stitches and 25 rows to 4 inches in stockinette, blocked, on size 4.5 mm needle.

Note on yarn usage:
I would have been able to squeek by with 5 skeins of the MC (no idea if these were overweight or not) if I didn’t do the shawl collar.
I measured the blue, but not the others. Minimal yardage used for the other CCs.