Well, I can't really do them until the buttons come. I could start, but I wouldn't get that far. I'm going to do it just as the pattern says - picking up stitches along the front side, knitting across the reserved section of the yoke with the braids, picking up stitches along the rest of the yoke, knitting across the back center stitches, then the other side back down. It's going to be a really LONG row by the time I have all that. You knit it back and forth in garter stitch for a few rows, then do the buttonholes on one side, then a few more rows of garter stitch, then bind off. That bind off row will be very tedious.