Lovely design and the pattern is easy to follow. The combination of Alva and Tilia creates a lovely soft fabric.

Followed the pattern except for the following modifications:

• Casted on for the ribbing at the neck. Didn’t quite see why not? Did 11 rnds of twisted rib.
• Didn’t do an Italien bind-off for the body, just bound off in pattern instead
• Picked up two extra stitches when picking up stitches for the sleeve. Didn’t decrease them on the following round.