I finished the knitting on this last week, but didn't finish the assembly until last night. I had to ravel some of the collar before I could attach it to the back. The pattern called for 5.25 inches of the collar, but that was over an inch too long. When I was attaching the collar I marked the center of the back neck, then sewed one side of the collar down, ripped back 11 rows until I was at the center and put those stitches back on a needle. Then I ripped the other collar back the same amount and grafted the collars together. After grafting I continued sewing the collar down. This is an interesting construction because of the way the fronts are sewn to the back.
The stitch pattern ends up at right angles to each other between the front and the back. When I was knitting the fronts I always attached new balls of yarn in the middle of a row rather than at the edge because the edge needed to look neat and finished.
I'm not sure that I like the view from the back, but the drape is good. There is one other thing that I really like about the Karabella Aurora 8 yarn, it is always easy to find the start of the ball. I had to practically turn the Naturally Vienna balls inside out to find the start, and I was not working from the center of the ball. It was very frustrating.
Pattern: Naturally Vienna Draped Vest - FC 56
Yarn: Karabella Aurora 8
Needles: US 7 (4.5 mm)
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