I Finished Ethan's Sweater

Ethan's sweater project was my first sweater project since Timmy was born (he's 9).  The others were baby sweaters and didn't turn out so well.

So I guess it should come as no surprise that I had to rip out parts of the sweater 4 times to get it to turn out.  First I was knitting with a twist (I think the abbreviation is Ktbl) and it wasn't sitting right.  Then when I got to the yoke (join of sleeves and main body) and started the main pattern area, it took several rows to get the hang of it.  
So I ripped it back to the beginning of the yoke and started over.  This is what it looked like at the yoke:

Then I tried it on Ethan and it was too short!  To make it longer, I ran out of yarn and had to order some more.  It's a good thing the online yarn shop published their lot numbers and they had some left!
When I had knitted my last row and bound off the last of it, I started weaving in the ends.  Then I had to sew the neck down on the reverse side.  However, it was late at night and I wasn't paying attention, and I sewed the neck down on the outside!  The next morning I went to unpick it before I left for work.  And I clipped the wrong thread.  The sweater ended up with a big gaping hole!  I think I cried right then and there.  So I ripped it back to the start of the hole and worked the last few rows of the pattern and the neckline again.

Finally, I got the thing finished again and sewed together the underarms and the neckline.  It looks so good on Ethan!  The first day it was done, he put it on and wouldn't take it off.  However, when he started playing ping pong with it on he got warm and took it off.  Now he things the sweater is too warm and won't wear it.  I'm going to try to get him to wear it to Thanksgiving dinner, but I don't have high hopes :(