Lovely yarn, only £2 per ball from Nest.

22/5 Knits up really quickly, handles lovely - no split stitches. I’m through the first ball and I reckon it may take ten, so 10% of my cardi is done! Yey! Pattern written out line by line so very easy to follow. Love the style - I think this is very ‘me’.

24/5 Got a rotten cold so been knitting this intensely. Have joined for sleeves and now on bust shaping. I’m at row 64 and just about to join 4th ball. I think I’m going to do an extra repeat of the pattern to extend the body by 2 inches, then an extra 2 inches of rib to extend length by a total of 4 inches. I like a thick waistband and this will be better than doing 2 extra pattern repeats as I think this would look out of proportion for this style and also make it too tight round the bottom as I’ve read on other’s pages.

I need to get some 24” circulars. Been knitting this on straights which was fine but I need to be able to try it on as I go soon to make sure I get the length right.

1/8 This is taking FAR longer than it should. Lost track of where i was in early 70’s rows of the second repeat to add length, found it impossible to work out where due to confusion caused by a mistake in the pattern throwing me off. This has now been corrected on Ravelry, but here it is just in case:

Errata for patterns downloaded prior to July 11, 2011:
Optional note for adding length should repeat rows 70-80 not 68-80

Errata for patterns downloaded prior to Sept. 16, 2010: The last 13 sts of row 28 should be yo, ssk, yo, k2tog, k3, ssk, yo, k4. The first ssk was a k2tog in the pattern.

I discovered the mistake way back in May but lost the will to go any further with it as I couldn’t work out the mistake, thankfully someone else has pointed this out so I now know where I went wrong and am about to pull it back to row 68, I think.

I REALLY want to finish this because I think it’ll be really lovely. However. I think it will be too small due to my massive boobs. Wish I had done the bigger size.

2/8/11 Back on track with this now. I think I will use less than ten balls even though I’m doing the extra repeat at the waist then adding an extra inch of rib. I’m large in the boobs with a small waist and large hips so I find a nice thick waistband balances me out and flatters my tummy. I think I wikll probably finish the sleeves at either just on the elbow, or 3/4 rather than wrist.

2/8 I definitely think this is going to be too small, so just going to do short sleeves to finish it quickly. I don’t believe in unravelling so going to finish it and will give it away or swap it. I’ve done the rib as per instructions but left it on the needle rather than casting off, going to do the sleeves first then will decide if I will do a thicker rib. Having to do the sleeves on DPN’s as magic loop pisses me off and don’t have a circ short enough, or 2 x 5mm circs. Hate DPN’s :(