This sweater was a lot of fun to make! It was easy as long as I followed the directions carefully. Having said that, yes, I did have to rip out about 20 rows at one point. It probably wouldn't have mattered in the end but I, and anyone sitting behind me, would know that the lace did not line up properly. And that would bother me. Not that someone sitting behind me would notice but that I would know. If something is not done right and I have it in my power to fix it and make it right I will do it. So I did.
I used three skeins of Malabrigo Sock in "Playa".
Now about this next sweater... I've had this Plymouth Encore DK yarn for a long time. Eight skeins of it that I picked up on Ravelry for a song. But I have a love/hate relationship with it. Sometimes I like it and sometimes I relegate it to the back of the closet because I detest it so. Now I like it. I'm thinking it will be a work horse type of sweater. Something I can throw on when I need to get cozy and just relax. So, I thought I would try making another "Grace" because I liked the outline of the sweater so well. But this time I would do it without the lace. Well, I didn't know that since the lace was expandable that there was a reason that the pattern had you do a massive increase along the body of the sweater after the underarm stitches were cast on. I know now after knitting about three inches of the body under the arms. (This is a top-down sweater) Huh. I had to rip out those three inches as well as all the stitches up to the raglan ending and then continue the raglan shaping (eight stitches increased every other row) until I had enough stitches on my needle to wrap around me with ease. Phew! That was not fun. Lesson learned. Count your stitches and check your gauge.
