Because I know from my swatching that 7 rounds are enough to counteract rolling in this yarn, I’ll do that many rounds on the neck, compared to the 10 I did on the sleeves and bottom edge.
Starting at the back/right sleeve raglan join, I will knit up one for one on the back, sleeves, and bottom center of the front neck. Those are the easy places.
Once I had the body’s phony seams done and completed the final stockinette round, I switched to 2×2 ribbing to match the sleeve cuffs as well as the neck ribbing I’ll add. Since I had 266 body stitches, I needed to either increase or decrease 2 sts to have a multiple of 4 for my ribbing. On the sleeves, which were snug, I increased 2, but on the body, which had a bit of ease, I decided to decrease 2.
Because the sweaters I’ve made in the last ten or so years have been regular wool, requiring hand-washing and drying flat, I’ve added Elizabeth Zimmermann’s phony seams to the sleeves and bodies. Phony seams make laying out garments quicker because the fabric will naturally fold at those points.
Because I knew how many stitches I could make with each skein, I determined that when I started color 4, I could go ahead and complete the sleeves with their cuff ribbing, rather than working the body’s color 4 and hoping I had enough yarn to work the sleeves with what was left.
I updated my garment chart with the body increases so that I could count how many stitches I would need to make with each colorway, just for some assurance that I wouldn’t be playing yarn chicken with any of them. I also updated the sleeves to show the two stitches I’d need to increase to accommodate the 2×2 ribbing on the cuffs. I used blank table rows between each group of colorway rows to make it easy to select the table cells containing the stitch symbols for each colorway.
Since I’m using less yarn than I estimated from the weights and stitch counts of my swatches, I am definitely going to do some increases down the body as I work the final three colors. With the five-inch difference between chest and hips, it’s asking a lot of an unshaped sweater to make that large an accommodation.