Managed to get through the back without too much trouble.. Once I understood we were to pick up stitches along the stockinette row below the first garter ridge it was simple enough.. Although it did take me a couple tries to not end up with a gap in between the picked up stitches and the live ones.

I only have one skein in this purple colour, some projects say they finished the smallest size with just one but the pattern suggests more. I do have a bit of this yarn in a silver left over that I could do the final couple rows and bind off with if I have to.