CO for size 38, but at a slightly tighter gauge (US 6 needles) to end up with a smaller sweater, somewhar’s between the 34 and 38 in the pattern, hoping for 36.

Mods:

• NOT alternating skeins (too lazy)
• KLL increase to mirror the KRL in pattern (for raglan incs, as well as front body incs)
• Inc every other row 14x; every 4th row 7x
• Front incs every 10th row instead of 8th (this gave me a length of 10” from armpit to bottom edge)
• went down to US5 for the bottom ribbing
• used US4 for sleeve ribbing
• neckline was too loose, so I did an I-cord edging instead of the garter, using a 4-st I-cord on US4s: I started with a WS row and purled to pick up the sts; CO 4 sts using backward loop; K3, SSK and repeat (moving the sts back to the left needle at end of row)
• final bust size ended up being 34”, but I folded the fronts a tad bit more than written, b/c I wanted a deeper pocket
• you can clearly see from the pics that the front I-cord edges curl like mad. grrrr…
• about 10g of yarn leftover!

stuck at home sick instead of going on vacation, so I thought that called for the use of this “special occasion” yarn, which my husband bought me for our 8 year anniversary.