The recipient wearing her gift, the day after Thanksgiving (we had a follow-up hang-out day, watching movies and eating leftovers). The sweater fit pretty perfectly.

I kept cutting lengths of 3 colors of Loops & Threads Charisma, and using a crochet hook to attach them to the unicorn in rug hook style.

Collar finished, little bit lumpy, November 16, 2019.

Collar stitches picked up.

Sleeves done! Looks like this is going to be done in time for gifting at Thanksgiving dinner! Still have all that hair and face embroidering to do, though, and the neck. This is November 16, 2019.

To hit the proper length (36cm, 14.7in), the sleeves needed 72 rows, with my yarn, needles (US 8) and gauge.

Unicorn sleeve done, back side view. The pink and white bit, starting at the armhole, was knit flat, but once I got to the all white bit, I just switched to in-the-round. I should've removed 2 sts, to account for the 2 lost sts when seaming the white/pink part, but I didn't, and no one noticed.

Picked up the 48 sts of the other sleeve, again skipping every 3rd st. It's easy to count sts picked up thus - you can clearly see pairs, and count by twos.

Unicorn sleeve done! November 15, 2019.

Here's the top of the left shoulder, above the unicorn's head. The little, shaped, side bits on either side of the neck meet at the top in a kitchener stitch graft.

You can see the bottom of the sleeve is open here, to be seamed up later. This is because of the need to switch colors. Switching in the round requires some trickery and lots of carrying of yarns. Knitting this part flat just makes more sense (and the pattern calls for it).

The sleeve was knit flat, starting under the unicorn's neck, at the armpit, going up and over, then down the back side, to the armpit once again, then turning around and returning. I twisted the white and pink yarns together each time I hit the color change. The white grows by 1 st every row.

Sleeve edges picked up again on US 8 circulars. I did the math, and figured out for the 48 sts of the sleeve, I needed a repeating pattern of picking up 2 sts and skipping 1, because my row gauge was about 2/3rds my st gauge. It worked out perfectly.

The part where the horse's nose doesn't touch the left edge I did in stranded knitting, carrying the pink yarn every 4-5 sts. When the horse head finally touched the edge, I switched to bobbin-style work, wrapping the white and pink yarns around each other when switching off.

Inside view of left seam.

Inside view of right seam.

Inside out view of the front panel.

Right seam.

Left seam.

Panels seamed, back view.

Panels seamed, front view.

The last 6" at the top of the panel seam is left as an armhole.

Seaming the front and back panels (mattress stitch - totally invisible, save the color change), November 14, 2019.

Back panel done, November 12, 2019.

I knit right from the centers of the skeins. That's how I do almost all my knitting and crochet work.

Front panel done, November 10, 2019.

Front panel is 14" tall.

Reached the unicorn's nose! November 10, 2019.

I like to take a pic with the gauge info so I can't forget.

Ribbing the front panel, November 9, 2019

Swatching, November 8, 2019.