In between scrubbing and painting the garage floor, I finished the red Catalina sweater. This yarn is so soft I just love it. To refresh your memory, the yarn is Catalina Baby Silk, 70% Baby Alpaca and 30% silk. The sweater took three skeins. Your read that right! Only three. I couldn’t believe it either! One benefit of boring ol’ stockinette, I guess. It is VERY close fitting (um, wasn’t supposed to be quite this close fitting…I needed one ore two more short rows and for the blocking to do it’s job) but it’s not like I’m the smallest knitter in the world. I did a little experiment this time. Usually I just keep it simple, doing decreases for the waist and increases for the bust. This time I used short row shaping for the bust. I would definitely try it again in the future. It creates a very close fit without being tight. It did look pretty funny when I was knitting it though…makes a funny looking little boob pocket that looks like it may be for a small child rather than breasts. Check it out…doesn’t it look like the pocket is in the middle of the sweater? Anyway, not perfect by any means, but a good basic comfy sweater which is what I wanted (sorry about the pics…I wasn’t having a good head day). The only really disappointment was the blocking. I expected wet blocking to allow me to widen the bust area but instead all I got was a MUCH longer sweater! For a while there, it was looking like a dress. It really seemed like this yarn stretched a lot more than other fibers when wet so you may want to keep that in mind if you decide to try it!