I was concerned the neck seems a bit loose and wide in some photos, and notice that the cast-on numbers are greater than for some other similar garter stitch patterns. So I cast on the stitch numbers for the 0-1m size and then will work more increase rows for the raglans until the raglans seem long enough and the chest big enough for the 1-3m size.

I feel there’s something a little wonky with this pattern. The neckline has more stitches cast on than probably necessary. Then the raglans increase only on every 4th row after an initial few increases on every 2nd row. You can see it in the way the sleeves slope down from the shoulders more steeply than usual. Then the pattern has you cast on 7sts at each armhole after putting the sleeve stitches on waste yarn… this seems like an effort to add width to the body that should have been added by more raglan increases!

If the neckline cast on fewer stitches and the raglan increases, or most of them, were worked every 2nd row, I think the pattern would work better. Perhaps a couple of stitches cast on at the underarms - I’d probably cast on 4 and then decrease with two k2tog’s at each underarm on the next row (I do this at underarms to avoid holes).

I didn’t follow the pattern religiously regarding the raglans; I did what I felt necessary as I went along. Next time I’ll definitely cast on fewer stitches to start with. Luckily that’s what I did this time - cast on the no. of stitches for the size smaller than I wanted - and I’m glad I did. The neckline is quite big enough. I’ll also take a glance at stitch numbers in similar garter stitch cardigans.

I prefer the cardigan without a crochet edging. If I wanted an edging I would have done an i-cord edging.

The resulting cardigan is sweet. I love garter stitch at present and cable or lace raglans. But the pattern leaves a little to be desired.

It was surprising that the pattern recommends size 3mm needles to get 24st gauge. I found 3.75mm needles worked for me, and I usually knit at an average gauge.

NOTE: The smallest size is Premature. Somehow my eyes kept skimming past that, so it would be easy to think that 0-1m is the smallest. I don’t know why the pattern puts “premature” in brackets, with no capital letter, and without a hyphen between the premature size and the 0-1m size.