Sweater of POWER!
I'm working on my first sweater which is Donna from Mag Knits. When I saw the pattern I became obsessed because the designer, like me, is a curvy woman with a big bust and a more defined waist. Also, she said you could pretend to be a 1950s lady with pearls and a flouncy skirt while wearing the sweater, and that's very appealing.

I purchased Classic Elite Imagine yarn which is a cotton/tencel blend in a pretty periwinkle blue color. I hit gauge on #4 and #5 needles (instead of #6 and #7. Whatever).

The first new thing I learned was how to do a tubular cast on. It's a bit fiddly at first, but it gives you a clean looking stretchy edge




So good times. The next new skill was short rows with wraps and picking up the wraps. Short row shaping makes extra material in a section, in my case the bust to accomodate my enormous breasts. I got help from this site which has great pictures of what is going on. I picked up the wraps pretty neatly. The rows aren't invisible, but they look mostly like a dart.




Right now I'm 1/2" away from the raglan shaping at top. I've already cast on for the back and have started the bottom row of ribbing (I needed something mindless yesterday and I didn't want to worry about dealing with raglan shaping on the go).

I really like this pattern. It's coming along smoothly and the ribbing along the sides breaks up the stockinette enough that it doesnt' get too boring. I will definitely make myself one in alpaca for winter.