I am knitting the marseille sweater by Petite knit. It is the type of sweater where you cast on for the back, knit up to the neck band, work the shoulders independently, join the join shoulders, finish the front yoke…etc
It is also a striped sweater. Starting with the back yoke, you knit some short rows and then knit regularly until a certain length. Then you add your first stripe. Then you continue knitting in the main color until a certain total length. Then you begin the shoulders and neckhole shaping.
I made sure that my measurements between cast-on edge and stripe (purple line), and cast-on edge and back of the neck hole (green line) matched the pattern. However, I have joined my shoulders and neck, and it instructs me to knit a stripe in the exact same place as the back yoke by counting the number of rows along the armhole.
I drew red lines where the shoulders begin, and so where I think the armhole is halved and the back/front is delineated. To me, it looks like my first stripe is really high on my back. And there’s no way to join it in the front where it matches evenly, because by the time I’ve joined the shoulders and the neck - we are way past where the stripe is on the back.
In what way did I misunderstand the instructions?