I am truly overwhelmed by the positive comments left by all you wonderful people! I am grateful to everyone who took time out of their day to leave me a nice comment. You made me smile. A lot. You gave me wrinkles. (Kidding, totally kidding. The wrinkles were already there.)

Some more notes on the sweater (I'm sorry, I promise I will get it out of my system and we can all move on), but it seemed like the shaping was really interesting to some people, so here's how I did it:

I cast on with zero ease for the body. I am excited that I finally know what zero ease looks like. The arms are a bit roomier because I am sensitive about my jiggly underarms. I mean, you can't exactly suck those in.

This sweater was worked in the round on two circular needles. The main reason for doing so was so that I could try the sweater on while I was working on it, without having to take it off said needles. Which I did, about every inch or so. Paranoia, thy name is Kim. Also, I threaded a lifeline about every two inches. So basically my first name is Paranoia, my middle name is in Extremis. But in this case it turned out the sweater was out to get me, as I frequently decreased too much (um, I think I am skinnier than I am, apparently. Vain, much?), and would have to rip back.

Approximate (note below) shaping for the body was worked thus: Cast on, knit even for 3 inches, then every inch I decreased four stitches. Once at the beginning of the round, once at the opposite "seam," then again on the other side of that "seam," and once more at the very end of the row. I decreased until I reached the waist.

After the waist, I increased in this same manner (reversing the decreases to increases), every inch until the sweater reached to the bottom of my bra band. That's where I started the short row shaping for the bust, using the formula laid out in "Big Girl Knits."

**Again, though, I obsessively tried the sweater on after every. goddamn. inch. Because paranoid, remember? So sometimes I would do double decreases, or I would increase after only half an inch, or increase after an inch and a half. I mean, this is one custom CUSTOM fitted sweater. No rhyme or reason here.**

Arm shaping, same thing. Cast on, knit even for five inches, decrease, then increase, then increase some more. The important thing was to keep trying it on as I went. Even more important is to make note of every little thing you do, as you will repeat it on the other arm.

Whew. After all that, though, you can just pretty much follow the directions EZ lays out for you. Yay!

Again, thank you to everybody about the sweater. You rock!