21-12-2018

As of today (21 December 2018), I am about 1/4 of the way through the pattern. If you don’t like an all knit project, this is a pattern to avoid but it seems to be knitting up well.

I have so far found two errors.
The first was the penultimate round before joining the knitting in the round. It says you should have 168 stitches, but there are in fact 169. This, while not mentioned in the pattern is rectified in the first round and the YO is knitted with the next stitch to make 168.

I am knitting the XL size and it says to knit 47 rounds which gives 552 stitches. 47 rounds actually leaves 698 stitches. I have knitted 47 rounds at this point as it seems to tie in with the next instructions and seems large enough.

10-01-2019

10 January 2018.
I have now completed the body element of the tunic and all seems straight forward.

Onto picking up stitches for the arm, on the decrease row you are instructed to decrease at the beginning of the round and at the end the final three stitches are ssk k1. According to the stitch instructions this is four stitches with no decrease. Instead I have assumed skpsso k1.

The arms I resdesigned a bit. The top half to the able I stuck to the pattern. In the bottom half, I reduced the stitches by knitting 2 together every 6th stitch and on smaller needles knitted from the elbow to the wrist.

The pockets are fairly straight forward. You should end up with a nice turn line along the bottom edge of the pocket. You will notice if it looks wrong.

I finished this at the end of January 2019