Made a size 36, which still ended up being too large for me. Blocking really helped loosen the fibers, making the drape much nicer and the sweater more comfortable. With blocking, I was able to make the sleeves the length I wanted and shrink the rest of the sweater. I prefer larger cozier sweaters to tight ones, but I could have made this the smallest size and then blocked it bigger, saving yarn. I ran out of yarn with one sleeve and the collar to go. I emailed out into the ravelry knitting world and was so pleasantly surprised by the help and generosity of my fellow knitters. Thank you to SlipZip and TheSweetStich for mailing me the lot number of storm that I needed to finish! Ended up loving this sweater, though I had my doubts while I was finishing it up.

This sweater is knit from the bottom up, arm holes divided then the back and front knit and combined at shoulders. Then the sleeves are knit, bottom to the top. Then stitched onto the sweater. Finally, the collar is picked up and the back of the collar is knit, then sewn to the sweater. Lots of sewing!

January-took gauge after knitting 14 inches and did the math. realized this would be about 8 inches too big for me since my gauge is 20 inches for 4 inches, instead of the 22. frogged and going to start again with smaller size.

39.5 size-November-this yarn is incredible. i have high hopes of no pilling. it is pretty slow going, but it is small yarn and small needle work. i expect to love this and hope it isn’t too big. i am making the 3rd size up but just took my gauge and it is larger than it should be. fingers crossed!