I knit this as a test knitter for Third Piece in Boston! Started on Sunday 10/4 and finished on Monday 10/26 which was pretty fast for me.

I did not hit gauge when swatching, it requests 11st x 16r and I got 15x20, this was like FINE but I probably used more yarn and had a smaller stitch than evisioned in the pattern.

The pattern says ‘needs 24” circular size 11s and 24” circular size 15s’ but that’s not quite right, i found the neck line a little too tight to cast on to 11s on a 24” needle, I switched to a 16” cord. Same with the sleeves, which were even smaller; switched to two circulars for those, especially on the cuffs.

There’s a line in the raglan section that is weird, it wants you to M1L twice around the raglan instead of M1R/M1L, it looks good but i was a little confused at first.

The other confusing section of the yoke is when it says “repeat the increase rounds times. continue working until..” i’m like, how long should this be. What if I make a cylinder. I had to ask about this part.

Sleeves worked out really easy for me, there are no decreases to remember which is great, they both took like exactly 1 ball of yarn which meant I mostly didn’t have to weave in sleeve seams. I made them like.. at least 3” shorter than in the pattern due to my stubby baby arms. The cuffs are really tight, it brings in the balloon sleeves well, but you can’t really push the sleeves up which might get annoying in day-to-day wear.

Main body also straightforward-- it stretched a good like 2 inches or so during blocking, that may have been my bad but it absorbed a LOT of water and got heavy-- other than that it turned out really good. I used the stretchy bindoff instead of the crochet hook bindoff because when I do the crochet hook one, and my sweater openings are static with no give, i always feel like i’m going to tear them. it doesn’t quite pinch in at the waist like the pattern pics look, but I don’t know quite how to solve that without making the bottom too static.

The yarn is interesting, I don’t work much with bulkier yarns at all usually. This yarn is soft which is nice, all of my skeins though had at least 1 break in the middle which meant I had to do twice as much weaving in ends. big annoying. Very very fluffy before blocking, absorbed a TON of water during soaking (oh also the color bled a lot, even the yellow-- i wouldn’t soak this with anything white), then took like a full day to dry. stretched a LOT when i was laying it out, and dried pretty much in the shape i laid it out in-- some parts stretched and others less so. That’s probably on me, too. this requires a delicate touch is what I’m saying.

anyway all in all a good experience! very nice to wear, good 3 week fast knit, glad I did it!