A hoodie for me! - unfinished

I have been drooling over the Nasak hoodie pattern for a while now.  The pattern calls for Rowan Alpaca Cotton yarn, and it's so expensive!  It's $12.50 a ball, and 11 balls are required for my size.  Luckily I found it for half price on Amazon.  I eyed that for a while, then started to worry that someone else would by the yarn and deplete the stock.  So I bought the lot - 15 balls.  That way, I could make the sweater longer if I wanted to.  I always find that sweaters shrink up after a few washings, and I don't want that to happen to this hoodie.

There are two reasons I bought the recommended yarn for the pattern: 1- the pattern size could have turned out wrong if I used a different yarn.  2- the yarn is Alpaca spun around cotton, giving it the soft feel of Alpaca with the cool properties of the cotton, and I wanted that.

I bought 2 new knitting needles from Signature Needle Arts for the project, too, so the cost went up there.  I still haven't gotten wooden toggles.

While working with the yarn, I have found that it is hard to unpick if I make a mistake, because the yarn is fuzzy.  While untwisting it, the yarn wants to stay wrapped around the other strands.  So I'm trying to unpick as little as possible.

The finished pattern photo on a model:

My work so far (I'm still working on the back):