One cold day back in September I was at knitting group and I just did not feel like working on Sheelagh. I was cold and I wanted to knit wool.
Luckily Yarn Central had just gotten in a new supply of yarn and there was a lovely selection of Venezia by Cascade. The colors were calling out to me and I realized what I really wanted was a fast easy warm cardigan. So I started one.
I am using this old pattern from Berroco. It is from one of the older "basics" brochures and the style is shown and written for 3 different weights of yarn. The one shown, Aline is written at 4 stitches per inch whereas my Venezia is knitting at 3 1/2 stitches per inch. But this photo is the one most like my finished sweater. The Second version, called Adrienne, is knit at 3 1/2 stitches per inch, so I don't have to do any math, but that was a bubbly novelty yarn so the illustration doesn't help at all.
I started the sweater, finished the 6 inches of ribbing at the bottom of the back and set it aside until I finished Sheelagh.
I finished knitting the back yesterday and I will cast on for the left front today. And yes, I will figure out my decreases before beginning the right so that I don't fall into that "reverse shaping" trap again.
Here is a partial photo of the back of the sweater, which I am calling Avril (for the third version of the pattern). I would have liked to show you a photo of the entire back, especially how the bottom ribbing seems to curl up when flat because of the short rows I did to take extra length out of the center back, but unfortunately it was late before I managed time to take a photo and I could only get the entire back in at a very odd angle which really distorted the proportions. You can see a couple of wraps from the short rows just above the ribbing, but I am pretty sure those will block out.