I finished up the knitting on this past Monday, wove in the ends and blocked. I finished up the sleeves last weekend, and worked the collar and bands on Monday. I had to adjust the number of stitches I picked up because of the modifications that I had made to the pattern, but the adjustments were straight forward. I only picked up 40 stitches, instead of the 46 called for, and when I started working the stitch motif I had to increase 3 stitches, instead of only 2, to get a stitch count that would work with the pattern repeat. I put the extra increase opposite the shoulder seam.
For the bands I picked up 2 stitches for every 3 rows, which seems to be a good rule of thumb for getting a band that doesn't pucker or wrinkle. I ended up with 28 stitches on the peplum (the pattern called for 25) and 79 stitches from the peplum to the collar band. I had to adjust the spacing button holes (reduced the spacing by 1 stitch), and I ended up with only 7 buttons instead of the 8 the pattern called for.
Here's a close up of the buttons - they are metal buttons.
I purchased them from
MJ Trimming. They have a pretty nice selection of metal buttons.
Pattern: Margaret Beaufort, by Alice Starmore from Tudor Roses (2013 edition)
Yarn: Alice Starmore Hebridean 3 Ply (517 g in Lapwing)
Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm)
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