The gradient of the Twister really sings in this pattern!

I struggled a bit with knitting it though. My first difficulty was that I just could not get the math of the sleeve stitch counts to work, and eventually the designer admitted there was an error in the math and put out a correction.

My second difficulty was a more fundamental one. The pattern as written has the Beginning of Round on the front left shoulder. Normally that wouldn’t be an issue, but because of the purl stripes I found that it made a jog there and ruined the symmetry on the front. I know, it’s a small thing that most people wouldn’t notice, but once you see it you can’t unsee it! (I zoomed in on the test knitters shots on Rav and it’s on theirs too.) Why not just move it to the back?! So I frogged the whole thing and started over, and once I got past the short rows I moved the BOR to the back. Much better.

Beyond that, the only change I made was to break the yarn and knit the sleeves as soon as I was past the division point, so that they would continue the colour gradient appropriately. I knitted just 10 rows of ribbing on each cuff before rejoining the rest of the yarn for the body.

I used a full skein of the Twister on this project. I probably could’ve gone a few more rows, but I preferred to cut the final lace motif off exactly in half rather than have it end at a random spot.

I found that the purl stripes do tend to pull it up a bit, so I needed to give it a good blocking and stretch it longer. It also wants to twist and bias on me (probably due to the strong twist of the Twister), so the blocking helped with that too.

Still, it ended up looking really nice and I’m sure I’ll get a lot of wear out of it!