February Sweater

I'm not losing my mind...I know it is March and the title says "February Sweater," but I got a little behind on one of my knitting projects.  I would have liked to finish this back in February, seeing as how I could have worn it the past few days, surprisingly. Instead, I got sidetracked with a few other projects, such as Amy's birthday cowl, Bennett's cute little cardigan and my quilted lattice cowl. I will include pictures of these projects on here soon!

Now back to my current project: February Sweater.  It is a free pattern that I found on Ravelry by Pamela Wynne called "February Lady Sweater."  I strolled across this one day and noticed that it wasn't too difficult and doesn't require a lot of yarn.  Two things that I look for in knitting projects, the latter because I'm on a super tight budget right now.  It can't be too difficult because it currently has 12,629 projects linked to it on Ravelry, by some of the 3 million users.  Holy crap!  It's a pretty popular pattern!  

I am using KnitPicks Wool of the Andes yarn in colorway Lava Heather.  Very pretty color that I can't determine if it's red, pinkish or purple yet, but I like it.  So far the knitting has been easy; I feel that I probably should have knitted more on the yoke part before starting the lattice pattern, but it fits just fine right now.  I have three buttonholes now, but I'm thinking I might sew one up when I'm finished so there's only two...it looks a little odd.  I wish I could have it finished by tomorrow, since it will only be 39 degrees here!  I'll aim to have it finished by April 1st though. 

My progress as of today

Detailed picture of the Gull Lace pattern