Matlida Jane - I love you!

I can't tell you how much I love this cardigan and pattern.  I just love, love, love it!  Ysolda Teague is a designer genius.  I have so loved knitting this cardigan, it's been a pleasure, and so very clever.  You knit it from the top down.  There are raglan sleeves which mean that there are no seams to sew and I'm sure it has made knitting that much quicker.  Ysolda also has a total eye for the shaping - wonderful.  I was a little worried that I had knitted a size too small, but it fits like a dream.  There were a few fiddly bits, like lifted increases and casting on in the middle of a row which I haven't done before, but a quick response from Ysolda and everything made sense!  B and A lifted increases, before and after - of course!  There were little  things in the pattern that I loved like the knitted buttonhole facings and the shaping to give you a mitred corner at the bottom corner.  So here it is, my Matlida Jane and enough wool left over to make some fingerless gloves - for those chilly days when forearms might get a bit nippy!