This pattern was heavily modified to make the sweater longer, incorporate waist-shaping, and account for my naturally very tight knitting. Rather than going up several needle sizes to obtain the recommended gauge, I adjusted the pattern to suit my gauge on the recommended needles with the hope that the tighter knitting would counteract the tendency of the acrylic in the yarn to pill.

Initially cast on using 4 mm circular needle. Tubular cast on seemed too tight; ripped and cast on again using 5 mm circular needle. Switched to 4 mm needles to knit the ribbing. Switched to 4.5 mm needles to knit the body.

After knitting the back to the bottom of the armholes, realized that the swatch used to create the pattern had been knit with 4 mm needles, not 4.5 mm needles. The sweater is much wider and longer than intended as a result, and since it had been devised with 0 ease and not negative ease to start with, it was destined to be unflattering if knitted to completion at this gauge.

Sweater back was frogged and re-knit. The slipped stitch edge was eliminated and replaced with a regular knit edge.

After knitting the back to the bottom of the armholes the second time, realized that purl-side decreases had been improperly matched to corresponding knit-side decreases. Unwilling to re-knit the back a second time, determined to ignore this largely unnoticeable mistake on the back and correct pattern for front. Later realized that M1L increases were used along the right seam and M1R increases were used along the left seam for no fathomable reason; corrected this for front also.

Armholes were knit primarily following the original pattern: adjustments were made to where they start and how long they are, but the shape remained the same. This involved a section with decreases every row for 4 rows, which disrupts the smoothness of the curve. Rather than attempting to recalculate the decreases, the odd section could be hidden by picking up “edge” stitches further in for the ribbed border.

Picked up every stitch around curved portion of armholes (about 46 stitches) and 2 out of every 3 stitches for straight portions. Ribbing seemed stretched a bit stretched, so picked up every stitch around neck and used decreases around the point of the v-neck on each even round. Bound off in pattern for all edges.

Things I Would Do Differently
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Finished Measurements
Bust: 30 inches
Waist: 24 inches
Hip: 30 inches
V-Neck Depth: 7.5 inches
Armhole Depth: 6.5 inches

Technical Details
I used ChiaoGoo RED Lace circular needles (both 24”). Sweater pieces were blocked on 4 two-foot-by-two-foot foam tiles using nickel-plated steel ball-headed pins.