John requested a jumper like the one worn by Ian McKellen in ‘The Christophers’, so let’s see how I get on!
Daelyn is a perfect pattern to use as a blank canvas, with raglan construction. It comes in all sizes, and a men’s and women’s version.
I missed out the garter stitch (obviously), and added a marker at each side seam, in the middle of the underarm cast on sts. I decided to add a purl faux seam on both the body and the sleeves, to hide the jog at the colour change.

I took the necessary total length from shoulder to hem (30/31”), and decided to go with 5.5” stripes, to total 5, plus the hem ribbing.
I winged the first one, just measuring from the top of the shoulder (as there are short rows at the back). I might’ve allowed too much for the section that goes ‘over the top of the shoulder’, which I deducted from the measurement. So, the first yellow section is probably a few rounds longer than needed, but it looks fine.
There are 18 rounds of yellow below the front neck, for future reference.
The other stripes are 32 rounds.

For the neck, I picked up all stitches, as instructions, purled one round (to hide any imperfect looking transition with the colour change), then worked 6 rounds of 2x2 ribbing, and bound off in pattern.
For the hem and sleeve ribbings, I changed to a 4mm needle, worked one plain knit round in orange, then 2x2 ribbing for 2.5”, and bound off in pattern

To spit slice the yarns at the colour change, I did the following (see photos, in order):
Work until 8 sts from the end of the last round of the old colour.
Bring the yarn to the front of the needle and make 8 complete wraps around the needle. Measure another 1.5” and cut the yarn.
Split the plies in two down to 1.5” and cut one of them.
Take the new yarn, split the to 1.5” plies and cut.
Interlock the 2 yarns, and spit splice in the normal way.

The join should happen right at the end of the round, and the new colour is ready for the first (purl) stitch.
I didn’t bother with jobless stripes, as the purl stitch hides the jog.

If the join isn’t in exactly the right place, you can tink back about 12 stitches and either knit them a bit looser, or a bit tighter. I’ve only needed to do that once…

I’ve called these stripes, but they’re so wide that it’s more like colour blocks.

I’ve just weighed it after weaving in the ends, and it weighs 584g.

Finished measurements:
Chest, 44.5”
Inside sleeve, 22”
Length, top of shoulder to hem, 30” (lying flat), 31” (hanging up).
Inside sleeve, 22”
Underarm to hem, 20.5”

He’s just been to collect it, one happy friend! It fits him perfectly, I’m so pleased…