Sweater Knitting

So one of my gifts for Christmas was some money from my BIL ... I intended to spend it solely on myself and for a spiffy new knitting bag.. since I really need one.. so I took the girls to the knitting store with me that I know has some spiffy knitting bags and they were basically out of those.. Instead I fell in love with a sweater pattern and some yarn and needles... $23 over my gift amount and I was in business.

Here's the thing... it's not a regular sweater pattern of make the front, make sleeves, make the back and now sew it all together (hate that part btw) and hope it fits correctly.  THIS pattern is for making the sweater in the round and all at once..

It's my first time doing it though... so there's all sorts of fun anxiety for me as I am figuring it all out. I'm about to start the 14th round.. of many many rounds... ok it's only 52 rounds plus all the shaping and ending stuff that happens once you have everything done.

I've already learned my new thing for this project.. it's basically called a bar increase but the direction for it written out was sounding a little funky to me and I had to go to knittinghelp.com to see a video of how to do it (I needed to turn 1 stitch into 4 stitches - though a bar increase as seen in the video only makes the 1 stitch into 2 stitches).

I'm hoping that I'll get the project (or the majority of it) done before Spring arrives since it has shorter sleeves and will hopefully be weather appropriate too.

Here's a link to the pattern for the sweater... http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rusted-root



Mine will be Pink and made from Cascade Superwash 220.