A woolly, woolly Saturday sweater

The stash busting epic continues:  colorful sock yarn to colorful sweater.

The modifications I made to the sweater are rather numerous.  It's beginning to look like I can't help but modify every single sweater I make!  But the issue this time was that I had more free yarn that I wanted to use up, and its odd coloring begged for the distraction of texture; the textured pattern I chose was for a much larger weight of yarn, unfortunately.

So, I chose a much smaller needle size and cast on the number of stitches for the largest size in the pattern.  I believe that my technique turned out well.  For the yoke of the sweater, I knit a few more rows in order to make sure it was a good length for my shoulders, and then I did extra increasing/decreasing to the waist.

Did I mention that I'm pleased?  I am.  I love the way the texture looks, and it is overall a very nice pattern.  There is only one fault to this sweater:  it is a little TOO colorful for my taste!  But Saturdays need comfortable, well-fitting sweaters too, I imagine.

Cheers!