I just received yesterday my new Sally Yarn and I'm already almost through the yoke!
Admittedly, I'm a fast knitter, but I'm well pleased at how quickly all the slipped stitches help move this along.
The colorway I chose (dark brown and purple Sheffield) gives this sweater a very different feel than the retro original, but something about the pattern maintains a very vintagey vibe.
Because the values of both colors are fairly dark, this is also the most low-key of my original options, so I'm definitely going to go with an all-over pattern.
But if you chose a retina-searing combination that's starting to make you nervous--or if you're knitting from stash and you simply have a lot more of one color--or if you want to pull the eye away from your "trouble spots"--you could stop the pattern after the yoke and work the body in plain stockinette. Despite missing out on the slipped-stitch speediness, you'll still move just as fast because pure stockinette covers more mileage vertically than the pattern (stretching the slipped stitches over several rows compresses the work overall). To work a yoke-only version, just work the directions through dividing the sleeves, and continue from there in stockinette. When you work the sleeves, you'll use plain stockinette there as well, but you can always sass it up with a bit of pattern at the cuffs (more on that when we get to the sleeves).
Source: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/04/sally_cardigan_kal_the_yoke_1.html
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