I’ve had this yarn for MONTHS upon months. Okay, not so long in terms of stashing, but I’ve actually knit an entire sweater out of it, which I then frogged. And then I knit 1/3 of ANOTHER sweater with it, which I then frogged. And after learning from those mistakes, I FINALLY found the just-right pattern for this amazing and wonderful yarn.

Unfortunately, this pattern is sort of a mess. It’s really unclear and difficult to follow and not very well written. I’m guessing it’s a language barrier issue. But it’s a beautiful garment, and if you can read through the poorly-written pattern, and figure out what it’s trying to tell you, then you get a lovely garment.

Managed to finish in spite of the fact that I somehow lost almost an entire skein’s worth of this yarn. I have no idea where it is. but the final sweater weighs 442g, plus I’ve got another 15g or so in swatches. Made it one inch shorter than the pattern called for, but got that length back in blocking. Also did one additional decrease on the sleeves.

I re-did the collar about 3 times. Finally ended up casting on not-provisionally (just used a regular long-tail cast-on) and picking up stitches in the base of the first row of sts on the other side (not in the cast-on, but through the center of every stitch of the first row - in the center of the v’s on the stst sts and in the back side of the v’s on the rev stst sts), so that the two sides of the collar would line up exactly (if you pick up provisional stitches, you end up with a half stitch off-set, and I’m too OCD for that to be ok).

Also, once I picked up sts for the body I continued to slip the knit sts on the RS of the garment (purling them on the WS) to maintain the effect.

EDIT (a week later):

Cannibalized my swatches to get an extra inch on each sleeve (my wrists were too cold). Now I have about a yard of leftover yarn - just barely enough to stash away in case repairs become necessary.

If I were to knit this again (and I very well may!), in addition to the mods I’ve already made, I would knit the collar in garter (maintaining the 4 st rolled edge) to prevent the whole collar from rolling. Also would do 2 rows of stst 3” from the bottom instead of just 1, so that line is more pronounced (in this yarn, it’s nearly invisible).