I've always wanted just a plain, V-neck cardigan, but I could never find one that was right, that I liked. Then I found Basic Black and knew that it was just was I had been looking for. Except, not in black. Instead, in green. I had a little crisis at the very end of the process. I ran out of yarn with two rows on the front button band left to go. I gnashed my teeth for a week about that. I had to order a whole other ball of yarn for about two yards at the very most that I was going to use. I'm fine now, but I was mad at myself for not conserving in the first place. Like I could have known. Any road, I'm very pleased with the end result. I'm going to wear it to work tomorrow, which is also, coincidentally, St. Patrick's Day, and I'm very excited to see how it wears. Front view. I need to learn how to attach buttons with back loops instead of the holes in the middle. That way, maybe the buttons won't threaten to slide out of their holes like the second one from the top. This pattern had waist shaping, and it was only after I was done with the body pieces and working on the sleeves did I learn that I should have measured myself to place the shaping correctly. It was much too late by then to rip the pieces and start over, so I did what I normally do in situations like this--hoped it fit. And it does fit. I'm so so happy with it, except for-- --the sleeves. They're really baggy at the top, but I don't know if I measured wrong or if I just don't know how to set in sleeves. In any event, I still lo----ve my cardigan. Stats: Yarn - KnitPicks Shine Sport, nine balls and a bit from the tenth, grrr...The yarn is a cotton and nylon blend so even though the cardigan is a knit, it'll still be all right to wear outside of winter. Needles - size 6 Boye straights and size 4's for the ribbing. Buttons - 5 Celtic knot buttons. The Irish theme of the cardigan is very unintentional. I just didn't think regular buttons would fit with the color, and I found a rack of silver buttons at Wal-Mart. Those were the cutest.