That's great to hear! I do often pretty significant fit adjustments to my sweaters as well and while it's really rewarding to learn things by myself, it's not something everyone wants to do in depth.

It's always so nice to see patterns with a good amount of adjustment options!

It's very simple and the effect is great for the amount of complexity + you have non colorwork rounds in between. I'm sure you can do it!

Thank you!

Thank you! I find this type of colorwork very relaxing to knit. Just enough happening to keep me interested but still something I don't need to think too much.

Glad to see it worked out!

If you are very keen on starting the project with that part of the skein you also don't need to even cut the yarn when knitting the swatch. You can also block it without cutting the yarn and then steam it to relax back.

In that case I would definitely email the designer. It's very wrong that the bigger sizes seem to face these kind of issues way more often than the smaller ones. Hopefully you'll get it resolved!

I'd read the pattern through trying to see if there are any other mistakes. I'd also read all of the ravelry project notes of the pattern. If after that the error seems to still be gone unnoticed/not corrected, I'd email the designer.

Even better if they then do it back!🥰 or when they actually remember the things I've said. My gf for example has just started learning knitting and has impressed me multiple times by knowing things about it already from my previous infodumping😂

I would if I was running out of yarn. Otherwise i'll keep them all as a collection of my progression/for possibly mending in the future. I have frogged and reused thrifted sweaters for yarn though.

I really hope so! Next step will be learning some pattern grading to make a few sizes, hopefully keeping the proportions relatively the same for all of them. And at some much later point putting the finished pattern up on Ravelry, if I get it to a point where i'm truly happy with it.

So true! I have been modifying so many sweaters to have them/increase the amount of them to get a better fit as many patterns often have too little of them. My current design project is a contiguous saddle with a very rigid collar, so the short rows needed to be just right.

Yes!

I'm not sure how you did it in here, but I always make a provisional co to make the picking up stitches not necessary. The knitting together is still a bit fiddly though. The end result of this type of folded cast on is so nice i think it's worth it!

Yes! Make sure that the work is not twisted around and add a stitch marker! If the join seems loose, don't try to tighten the first stitch too much but the second and third instead. Good luck!

You're doing great!

Extra points from me for using my favourite shoulder construction! Looks great overall.