After well over a year of on-and-off knitting (followed by some frantic last-minute button sewing), I have FINALLY finished my grandma's sweater! In my usual style, I completely failed to get a picture, so I'll have to use the one from the site where I bought the pattern.
Unfortunately, there were several significant errors in the pattern. Right up front, the instructions left an entire row out of the pattern. Fortunately that one was easy to spot, since an odd number of rows was obviously not going to cause the pattern to repeat properly.
The other problem I failed to notice until I was about half-way through a significant portion of the sweater: It buttons backwards. The pattern says the button holes are on the right side, but once I started working that panel, I realized it needed to be the left side in order to have the correct side of the fabric facing out. This isn't a fatal problem, but since women's shirts tend to button in the opposite direction, it's rather awkward. Luckily Nan didn't care, because I was not in the mood to start again!
Otherwise, the aran pattern itself was quite nice. The sweater is a nice design, which was why I chose it, but if you decide to try it yourself, definitely read through the whole thing first and feel free to ask me any questions about the corrections I made. In the meantime, I'm going to revise it and make myself a hooded button cardigan... eventually...
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