See?

I have 2 more repeats of the 32-row pattern and the band is finished. Then I just have to pick up stitches on my lovely addi turbos and knit the body! It's all plain, so hopefully, since it's fairly chunky yarn it will go too fast for me to get bored.
I just have to do the calculations for the waist shaping before I begin. It's not a shaped garment and that just doesn't suit me. I'm too hourglass for that.