WIP pics of a FO --Claret Rockefeller

The fronts and backs cast on, via the Tailored Sweater Method by Tuulia Salmedi.
The sleeve caps picked up and the sleeves completed.
The body, continued.
The sweater, cast off along with pockets but before the giant ribbed collar.

Originally I wasn't sure how to do the pockets, as I was doing this sweater from the top-down rather than bottom-up. I ended up putting the 10 cable stitches on a holder, then doing a crochet provisional cast-on of 10 stitches to continue the body (since the stitches I put on the holders would now become the back, or inside or the pocket), then continue knitting in pattern. After finishing the ribbing and casting off, I picked up the stitches and did the pattern for the requisite ten rows. On the "top" layer with the provisional cast-on, I picked up my stitches and did the rows of ribbing (as in the Twinkle pattern). Then I messily sewed the whole thing together. Because I sew quite poorly--that's why I knit!

I really do need to take a FO pic, maybe after I do the buttons and sew them on. But I'm not impressed with the sweater. It's a shame, because it took from the start of one weekend to the end of the next (just over a week), but I don't love it. In fact, I tried to give it away to my mother (she wouldn't accept it since it was acrylic and holey, but the holes were part of the pattern! But I digress). I think I just don't like bulky sweaters. I felt like Chewbacca. And it didn't feel good (this part is my fault, since I knit this with Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick). But it wasn't warm and I had flashbacks of junior high when I had many sweaters but was still, perpetually cold (in hindsight, it was because all but one of the sweaters was made of acrylic and sadly, the one sweater that was made of wool had a pattern of intarsia dogs which, at the time and probably still now, wholly embarrassed me). So what am I supposed to do with this huge monstrosity, frog it? I just might, some day.