my first sweater. . . which is not a sweater yet

Tonalita's Boxed Sweater--I saw it made at my local yarn shop, liked the feel and colors, and thought it looked easy to knit. I bought 9 skeins of Trendsetter's Tonalita and started knitting it during the break of Christmas 2008. I ripped and knitted each piece until I got it right. I learned how to increase and decrease and, most importantly, how to pick up stitches. When I was stitching the parts together, I realized the sleeves were too narrow, way to narrow. Look how small the upper arms are!

I frogged both sleeves and one front side (because I cut into it when I was taking out my seam stitches!). I will eventually get back to it because I don't like to leave things undone. I don't even like striped garments. Maybe some day I will wear it.