It fits!

Dave arrived home today and was very tired.

But he roused himself up enough to take a couple shots of me modeling the sweater.



In general, I'm happy with how it came out. I'm really glad that I added the waist shaping. In retrospect, I think I could have gone in another inch or so and maybe a size smaller to make it more form fitting. But I think the looser fit works too. I loved knitting the neck line and I'm very pleased with how it looks. It is a high neckline though and I'm wondering how it would work with a deeper V... This was my first pullover (for myself) so I'm really happy that it fits at all.

As for the Saucy Sport yarn, I liked it okay, but not enough that I'd run out and buy more. As it is a cabled cotton, it was a stiffer yarn and sometimes it was hard to maintain a consistent tension. I did find it to be somewhat unforgiving to the lapses in tension, but soaking it and putting it through the spin cycle on my washer sorted most of that out (but it still looks better from further away I think). It also is a heavy yarn, so you'd probably have to make adjustments if you made the sweater with a lighter, drapier yarn.