General
Loved everything about this pattern except the too low and wide neckline so reworked it to be narrower. Since my gauge was a bit off I had to recalculate a lot anyway.

This is an excellent yarn! Fantastic stitch definition and stands up to repeated froggings without even a hint of fuzziness or pilling. And it’s easily spitfelted!

I really don’t understand why this pattern only make the stitches twisted on every second row. Yes, purling through the backloop takes a little longer than a normal purl, but with a garment like this it’s definitely worth the effort. And there is just no excuse for not making every row twisted when working in the round!

Bottom band 4.5mm needles, body & sleeves 4mm, neckband & sleeve cuffs 3.75mm, plus 2.5mm for picking up stitches for neckband & sleeves.

Using Grumperina's method for cabling without a cable needle on the 1x1 crosses and a spare DPN for the 4x3/3x4 crosses.

Using TECHknitter’s trick for a neater transition stockinet-ribbing on last r of bottom band and first of sleeve cuffs.

Using sloped bindoff for neckline.

Mods

• making twisted stitches twisted on all rows,
• twisted decreases: instead of ssk just k2tog through the backloop, for k2tog twist left-most stitch clockwise before starting,
• don’t want holes down my back so working all YOs twisted,
• using German shortrows (double-stitch) instead of wrap & turn,
• no increases for the armhole,
• didn’t do the extra shortrows in the back,
• made the neckline less deep and wide but used pattern’s shoulder shaping,
• made the neckband 20 r only instead of 24 and following the advice from this thread decreased away several of the purl stitches in the back on the last r before binding off for a neater edge,
• picked up 70 st for sleeves and decreased away 2 on first r = 68 st, knit 12 r, decreased 2 st on next r, then every 6th r another 5 times = 56 st, every 10th r twice = 52 st, and every 14th twice = 48 st. Knit 4 r plain stockinet before starting cuff. Cuff 24 r twisted rib,
• secured back neckband on the inside with cotton ribbon.

Timeline
2019-01-13: I really ought to have tried the combination of twisted rib and lifted increases before starting. It looks awful! And since I’m not confident in my ability to drop down and remake all those increases I decided to frog and start over.
2019-01-16: Finished ribbing and shortrows and started on body.
2019-01-30: Separated front and back but continued knitting on both.
2019-02-05: Realised I’d miscalculated the armhole depth (note to self: always make sure that you’re using row gauge and not stitch gauge when you’re calculating numbers of rows!) so I’d to unravel 27 rows and start over
2019-02-09: Started on neckline- and shoulder-shaping.
2019-02-10: Finished body and started on neckband.
2019-02-11: Finished neckband.
2019-02-12: Tried it on again and realised the neckband was too tall so frogged four r and bound off there instead. Started on right sleeve.
2019-02-16: Not happy with the lower part of the sleeve. It’s too tight. Frogged and started over.
2019-02-17: Finished right sleeve and started on the left.
2019-02-20: Finished left sleeve. Frogged last r of neckband and reknitted with decreases. It’s finally finished! Washed it, blocked bottom band and am now waiting for it to dry.
2019-02-23: Handstitched a bit of red cotton ribbon from my stash to the inside of the neckband in the back.