This is a cute pattern, although I modified it to be something less cute and casual so I could wear it to work. I love the version I made, but I’d like to make another one with the contrast pockets, and all the increases next time. Oh - and different colours of yarn so I can do the 3/1 stripe.

Tardis wins, although in hindsight I should have picked the pink, as it doesn’t have any dark in it - better contrast with the black and white speckled. In the skein it looked like a good contrast but the black bits were too close to the dark bits in the blue.

Mods:

• 3/4 inch ribbing at neckline instead of 1 inch.
• German short rows, and 4 additional rows
• move start of round to left back sleeve (from left front sleeve)
• centered the increase/decrease. Instead of 2/10 did 6/6 stitches from the sides. 54 stitches between the markers.
• the speckle yarn is better with at least 2 rows, as the black specks get lost when there is only 1 row of CC. So - after 3 single rows, switch to 2 CC and 3 MC x 9, then 3 CC and 3 MC for 9, then back to 2 CC and 3 MC for 9.
• when I hit 100 stitches for front/back, I slowed the seam increases to every 4 rows, while still every 2 for the sleeve. This gave me 106 and 70 at the sleeve split, so I cast on 8 at the underarm.
• 3 waist decreases x 4 stitches, starting at about 3.5 inches from underarm. 6 rows apart.
• increases every 8th row, not every 4th.
• one pocket - left side.

Sleeves - start with 38 grams of speckled yarn. Keep 2 x 3 stripe pattern, to maximize speckled stripes.

• 70 stitches on hold. Pick up 8 from cast-on stitches, plus 2 for gap, decreasing those at round 1. That makes 78 stitches, the number for size L.
• decrease every 10th row until 60 then knit to rib. 1 plain row, 6 twisted rib rows then cast off. Same size needle.

Pocket - picked up 3/4 ratio, starting with my MC yarn, as I didn’t want the pocket detail. Did a smaller pocket with only a couple of increase-only rounds. Had to add different blue yarn (Esopus in Midnight), as I ran out.

Use Hedgehog sock and something solid. Purple? (Sweet Fiber Sweet Merino Lite), something red or pink (Western Sky Dianthe)? Teal? Black? Blue? (Indigodragonfly Tardis) Green?

Planned mods: change the stripes per this project. link text