Lettuce Coat Behaving So Far

The (Ravelry link) Lettuce Coat is coming along nicely, although I really should rename it since I'm using reds instead of the lettuce green yarn. It's top-down construction, so you provisionally cast on for the back, knit down to the armholes, put those stitches on a holder, unpick the provisional cast on and knit the two fronts down to the armholes, then join the whole mess. The fabric no longer feels quite so floppy and the color changes in this yarn are just beautiful (although I'm partial to reds and browns anyway). The brioche rib has slowed me down quite a bit, not because it's a hard stitch. The YO next to a slipped stitch tend to trade places on the cord, and it's a lot of tugging to get them back up on the needle to knit them. Secondly, I discovered after a few rows of brioche rib that one ball of yarn has more of the lighter colors in it and it was really obvious, so I dropped it after a few rows and am now blending two balls of yarn. There's more light streaks on the ribbing than anywhere else in the sweater, but I had already knit the fronts, back, joined them all together and done the waist shaping before I discovered it, so of course I won't go back, ha. Just another reason to not favor top-down construction. I know I am going to be really aggravated when I'm knitting on the sleeves, but I've never done a pattern where you knit the sleeves by picking up stitches, so I was interested in trying the technique. Six inches of brioche rib done, 9 more to go! lol