I had some trouble with this puppy…pun intended. The pattern is Sheep Dreams by Dori Betjemann. There is errata. In my humble opinion, I think there should be errata for the errata. I figured everything out and I’m sure Dori is a lovely lady, but heaven help us, can someone test knit for her/the book?
In the end, I CO 127 (8 extra) and increased 1 and likewise decreased 1. In retrospect, I would like to have increased more (because the border seems a tad wider than the body), but since I had a pattern I decided to roll with it. In the end, I was VERY pleased with the final product, so I believe I’ll stop whining now. The Scotties are from a sweater pattern. L saved the pattern when she ran across it for just this purpose (when M had kiddos).

Note: My first cast-off was Jeny’s surprisingly stretchy bind off. It was so much looser than my cast on that I had to rip it out and do a more traditional bind off. That was too tight. So, in the end I ended up doing a loose traditional bind off and that seemed to be just right.