Cast on 48 stitches for the sleeve cuffs, not 50, because the graph was for 48 stitches. Afterwards… I’d probably have gone with just a bit more of the graph… something like 52 or even 54 stitches as the cuffs were a bit narrow.

For the sleeves, I measured from the bump at the back of my neck to my wrist with my arm bent, subtracted half the width of the finished body tube, and that was my finished sleeve length. It worked really well.

I used the flame colorway for the Cardigan pattern and had to buy more of the red for the sleeves and finishing work. I needed it. I also added two inches at the bottom of the graphic, and may not have needed to.

Meg added two skeins of the maroon, dark red, for finishing work, and I bought another four as I was still on the body and only had three skeins left before even starting the sleeves. I used three of the four for the sleeves and I-cord finishing.

I added two inches of flames at the bottom as the pattern said to, but the finished cardigan in the photo didn’t have anything added from the graphs. I only saw this after I’d already graphed and knitted the extra inches and then some. So you can just follow the graph as it’s given and you probably won’t run into the yarn problems I did.

I also used a Fibonacci sequence for the color changes, I did 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1 for each color and interlaced the other color counts. So that the 1’s were with the other color’s 5’s, etc. It made for a very gradual visual change between the colors. You may be able to cut out that center 5, as I added 20 rows at the beginning with my flame. So at least four of the colors wouldn’t have to have that center 5.

I also progressed the colors on the cuffs with whatever colors I had left after the body. The instructions didn’t say to do that, but I really liked the finished effect.

I am only doing two I-cord all around the front and neckline, instead of the alternating three that Meg did. It’s lying beautifully with the two (and button holes) so no need for a third to cover anything up.

Do check my blog posts for additional details on this thing. laughs There’s a lot there.

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For a little more detail for the Fibonacci sequencing…. I only did one background color and one contrast color (the dark burgundy) for each row, the color changes were between rows in the round. If there were three colors a, b, and c, reading from right to left for bottom to top, the rows would look like this:

aaaaabaaabaabbabbbabbbbbcbbbcbbccbcccbccccc… (and so on)

Starting with very dense a, building up to dense b, and thinning b until c is good and dense, and continuing in this manner.