Kissing Frogs, Selfishly

So I finished my grading on Monday (12/20), and was seized by a desire to throw over my year-end resolution and engage in some selfishly selfish knitting. Ever since frogging those two sweaters, the background noise in my brain has been all about what to re-knit that yarn into. I have pretty firmly decided to re-knit the Baikal/Superior Green into another Kerrera (only smaller this time--the sweater itself, alas, was my gauge swatch), but what to do with the Zarya Fog...? Well, after submitting my grades on Monday I started obsessively doing pattern searches on Ravelry, and I kept coming back to one that just so happened to be in my PDF library (on my computer...because it was part of a 5-pattern free giveaway from Knitting Daily awhile back): Sienna (Rav link)! This is a really simple cardigan with interesting details. I've always liked it, but wasn't sure what yarn to use for it. At first I thought the Peace Fleece would be too rustic for the pattern, but after knitting a little bit of the body, I thought it was actually a nice contrast. What do you think?

Here's a closeup the lace/cable bit:


And here's that pretty picot-esque collar, which I just finished knitting about 15 minutes ago:


So far so good. I have made a few mods to the pattern, which I'll post about when it's all done. The most notable mod so far, though, is that I knit the body in one piece and used a 3-needle bind-off to finish the shoulders. I cast on the total number of body stitches called for in the pattern, plus 2 stitches for faux-seams. I wanted about an extra inch of ease in the body, so this worked perfectly--my gauge is 4 st/in, and because I'm not seaming I won't be losing 4 selvedge stitches, whence my extra inch. Aside from that, I also made a mistake on the lace/cable chart (I realized 2 repeats in that I was crossing the cables every 14 rows instead of every 16. I just did an extra repeat, which gave me about an extra half-inch in length--just right!)

I've really been cruising along on this one, the result of taking a couple of days totally off from work-related nonsense. Lots of knitting time, plus Aran weight yarn knit on #9 needles, plus a fun pattern = insta-sweater! I expect to finish this over the weekend.