I'm NOT Calling it Almost Done

I'm getting there. As you can see in the photo below, I've made tremendous progress on Isabella. You haven't seen in-progress photos in part because they're really boring. It's 6.75 stitches to the inch, and 12 rows to the inch, so on average, a row has about 150 stitches, and those long stretches of stockinette were great for TV-watching, but boring as hell. I figured you didn't really want to see fifteen posts that all said, "I knit for four hours last night. I made an inch of progress. See?"

No doubt the front was loads more fun to knit than the back for two reasons. 1. The lace panel made it slightly more interesting. 2. Once I split to the right half of the front, progess seemed faster. There are about 1/3 the stitches, so, four hours of knitting led to THREE WHOLE INCHES of vertical progress.

I said it seemed faster, not that it was faster.

I've got a few ends to sew in, the hem to sew up (exposing the nice picot edge), and then have to knit the armband edgings and hem them. I've got a 2 hour flight (plus all the airport sitting beforehand) on Friday, so this little top will be done soon.

Do I like it? Yeah. Does it fit? Perfectly. Are there things I would do differently next time? Absolutely.