The sweater is beautiful. However, it’s too big for my dad. Years after this photo was taken, I had to use extra yarn and reign in the collar. He wears it with the sleeves rolled up three folds just so it doesn’t hang past his knuckles.

I knit the whole thing during my first semester of graduate school (Fall 1991). It helped keep me awake during classes, especially when I hadn’t gotten enough sleep, which was most of the time.