Taking the leap

So ...

I decided to cast on a sleeve to see how I liked it, and here's what it looks like.

I want to thank all of you for giving me your advice for the High Neck Cable sweater. It gave me a lot to think about.

As you can see from my reaction, I'm a little skeptical, but what the hell, it's only a sweater.

And now for something completely different...

I have a good friend who is pregnant! So I knitted this from Elizabeth Zimmermann's "Knitter's Almanac."

Elizabeth refers to it as "Baby Sweater on Two Needles; Practically Seemless" but I used Elsebeth Lavold's Silky Wool and I'm going to modified the name to "Baby Sweater on Two Needles; Practically Seemless and Practically Done with One Skein of Yarn."

Doesn't that sound nice?

Anyway, I didn't knit the Gull Pattern stitch used in the original, because it wouldn't have shown up very well in this green tweed, and my friend is having a boy, so I thought the stockinette would be more appropriate.

I was going to put some white buttons on, but A.K. (in his most vocal opinion on my knitting EVER) said 'No' and so I found these coconut shell buttons.

What do you think?