This sweater is filled with hours of watching indoor swim lessons, the Rio Olympics, and season 2 of Mr. Robot. Toss in a car trip up north, an hour in front of a campfire, and an afternoon at Goodman Pool watching the boys swim with their friend Tom. Love the buttons - found in Grandma’s old sewing stash.

Things to note from pattern:
The “left side” is the left side as it is worn, not as looking at it.
Stitches in the quilting section are slipped purlwise (without twisting).
Mods to fix flipping bottom ribbing listed below.

pre-wash gauge:
20.5 sts / 4 “
25.5 rows = 4”

post-wash gauge:
20 sts / 4”
28 rows = 4 “

Eek! Gauge swatch really shrank lengthwise. A new challenge for me. In the parts of the pattern that give lengths, I add an appropriate number of rows to allow for the shrinkage later. It’s keeping me on my toes. (Update in bottom half of body - suddenly hitting row gauge. GAAAAH, what is going on? I apparently am not knitting evenly - maybe my stitches are looser when I’m knitting flat than in the round, or maybe my stress-filled life is creeping into my knitting. I’ve never had this problem before. Will just follow rest of pattern as written the rest of the way and hope for the best. For the length from arm to bottom hem, will use the # of rows as it should be if I’m hitting gauge, as I think it’ll shrink to that in the end. If not, the length is still OK. Not a big difference between the two.)

Sleeves - made smallest size sleeve with following changes: picked up one extra (mistake). Knit 1st decrease on row 11, remainder every 10 rows. Did 1 fewer decrease than called for.

Ribbing at bottom flips up horribly. Ripped back and modified: On first row of ribbing (US4 needles): P1, slip 1 stitch purl-wise with yarn in back, repeat around entire round. In this same row, every 10 stitches, in place of the slipped stitch, I knit 2 sts together.) This helped a lot - no more flipping.

Because I added length in top, made 7 button-holes.

Blocked. Fits perfectly. This is one of my favorite sweaters ever. Love the color, love the pattern, love the fit. I want one in every color. Just perfect.

399g finished