It's not done, but a milestone has been reached - the body and bottom ribbing are complete. I made it 1" longer in the body than recommended as well as 1" longer in the ribbing. I'm not sure if I'm going to end up regretting that in the final fit, but I am not exactly a cropped tee kind of shape. We shall see. I am going to decide now that I'll be brave and rip back and fix it if I don't love it after blocking.
I'm a bit bummed about that one splash of pooling across the chest from the second skein, but that's what I get for not alternating skeins with a hand dyed, though tonal, yarn. I'm going to live with it and call it a feature. I have loved working with this yarn, and a woman at knit night this week put her finger on it when she said "Hella stitch definition!" I think that's what I love the most about how it looks. How it feels is pretty much the #1 feature - the silk in the blend is very apparent. It's also kind of hefty, so it will be interesting to see how this blocks out and drapes on me once everything is all done. I think it's going to be great.
I just have to do ribbing around the armholes and the neckline now. "Just" may be understating how annoying it is likely to be, but it still feels like I'm in the home stretch.
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