Sweater progress

I am a knitting fool!  So far I have the body finished and one of the sleeves.  I had to learn quite a lot to start the sleeves, but now that they are started I feel good about it.  First time using double pointed needles, joining and having to pick up stitches.  I think that they look good!

Working the body

Doing the bottom ribbing

Body done!

One sleeve

Finished product.  I modified mine to 3/4 sleeves because I prefer that and also because I was running out of yarn...

The back... looks nice!

I have now finished both sleeves but I ran out of yarn... so I was trying to get more yarn and realized that they stopped making the color that I needed.  We luckily found the same thing on eBay so we purchased it, only to find out that the dye lot was a little bit darker than what the rest of the sweater is.  Oh well.  I think that it will look just fine having the finishing touches be a tad bit darker.  I'm almost done!  Whoo!

I am finally done with my first big project!  I did find that I dropped a stitch here and one there, but overall it looks good.  I don't think I would've noticed it but I'm glad that mystery of where I lost two stitches was solved!  I Don't think that it looks funny with the darker borders and I just have to put buttons on it now.  It's really really warm, so that's a plus!  It does look like it was knitted, but I think all in all it turned out well.  :)  On to another project!

JVG