Since the top of this sweater has some peculiar steps, I thought it might be useful to show pictures of the progress.

I first made the two neck extensions, adding an extra stitch along the outer edge of each (meaning the edge that will not be the free edge along the neckline) to give me a place to knit or purl up the sleeve stitches without losing my desired 11-stitch finished width of the front-neck edgings.

Then I purled up along the cast-on edges of each extension and worked a crochet CO between them, to get the back neck’s edging started. Purling up, rather than knitting up, meant that when I turned to work the first row of the back neck, I was working a right-side row, not a wrong-side row.

When I completed the 10 rows of the back neck,

I rotated the WIP to purl up the sts for the left sleeve.

Then I rotated the WIP again to work the next (WS) row in sequence across the live sts of the left front neck extension.

Now I turned the WIP in the usual way, so that I was looking at the RS, and worked to the end of the back neck.

I rotated the WIP to keep the RS facing me and knitted up the right sleeve’s stitches,

then I rotated the WIP and worked the next (RS) pattern row on the right-front extension.

At that point, all the yoke sts were finally on the needle. I turned and worked the WS row, which is project row 12, based on row 1 being the row at the top of the back neck.

The Best Laid Plans…

I then counted all the sts. I had 12 on each front, 18 on each sleeve, and 59 on the back. While the extra sts I put on the sleeve edge of the front extensions and both ends of the back neck meant I didn’t lose any desired FO fabric width when I purled and knitted up the sleeve sts, what I didn’t realize, even through all my multiple rounds of planning on paper and in my head, is that those 4 sts would all still be on the needles.

Now, 4 sts more or less never hurt anything, at least not at this gauge. And actually, I’m pretty glad they’re there. Why? Because they simplify the raglan inc set-up. Since I now have 2 sts at each of the 4 raglan increase points, I can put a marker between each pair and work the raglan inc rows as “K to 1 st before marker, inc, K2, inc” and repeat across. The first sweater adventure kind of bit me, because there was only one st between the increases, so the marker was not in the center of the raglan line. (I had to frog the first attempt of that sweater and restart, because I had put the markers in the wrong places. Or, alternatively, I worked the raglan incs in the wrong places relative to the markers! :roll:)

But now the markers are positioned symmetrically, which also means one st goes to each body piece or sleeve when I split the body and sleeves at the underarms. So my boo-boo oversight makes things a lot less ambiguous at every step along the way. Yay!

Raglan Increase Schedule

Based on the stitch-count table linked in a previous post, I’ll work the first set of raglan incs

• on the sleeves on project row 15,
• on the fronts on project row 25,
• and on the back on project row 27.

That means I’ll work a LOT of rows evenly—unshaped—on the front and back, which may lead to fabric that doesn’t lie properly across my shoulders.

I’m too burned out mentally to be able to tell exactly what the fabric will look like, so my plan is to work through row 24 (so, the row just before I do the front raglan incs), put all the sts on my usual ribbon holders, and try the WIP on.

Here’s hoping it looks good! If it doesn’t, I don’t have a plan B. :-\