The 15th Floor Overlooking Fenway

Pattern: Shrug from Debbie Bliss's Cathay pattern book c 2005
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cathay in Peony 10
Size: ?
Started: Approx April '06. I know this because I checked my order history on Yarnmarket. (Yeesh, we won't talk about how much full price yarn and a pattern book costs.)
Finished: Hmmm....some time after that, but quite a while ago. Completely finished 3/22/08
Mods: none. I made it as patterned right down to the color.

Notes:
This was the first sweater that I knit. Does a shrug count? I was a pretty new knitter at the time. I learned some basics of sweater making and seaming. All in all, it turned out pretty well. However, unlike the cover picture mine didn't just lay nicely over my boobs. I wore it once or twice, but didn't like tugging on it. My intension was to find a sweater pin or hook and eye to hold it closed, but never got around to it. I so happened to come across said hook and eye this evening, and I promptly sewed it on.
There is some wonkiness about it that doesn't make me absolutely love the sweater

• The left slanting decreases are funny
  
• I didn't know how to hid the short row wraps (but I had to learn how to even do short rows)
  
• The angle at which I picked up stitches along the front "corners" for the collar/edging is too acute

If I didn't have two other sweaters on the needles (one almost certainly will be frogged), I would consider casting on for some of the other cardigans in the book right now.