Suggestions

Put a life line right before your armhole/neck shaping starts. This way if for some reason your decreases aren’t matching your stitch count you can rip back with no problem.

I was really confused by the neck/armhole at-the-same-time decreases. I actually put this project aside for many months because it just didnt click in my head. Finally I sat down and mapped out the whole armhole/neckline section on graph paper. I actually made graph paper on excel to make the squares small enough so that the whole section where the decreases and bind offs start fit on one piece of paper. One I did that it worked perfectly. It was a little time consuming since I stopped at each row to cross of the row I did and count stitches but it was worth it. I also used locking stitch markers to mark each decrease I made. Like I said, time consuming, but worth it.

So I put this down when I just couldn’t figure out the left and right fronts. Did they stump me!!! But I picked it back up a couple weeks. I sat down and graphed the increases to the neck and armhole shaping and that helped a great deal.

All the knitting is now done and I need to wash, block and seam it. I’m so excited to start the neck and button bands :)!!!!