I also think life it too short and there is too much great yarn to knit the same yarn twice...but sometimes it's best to not mess with perfection.
Without further I ado, I give you my humble version...
The sweater was actually pretty quick. Done in one piece up to the armpits, the sleeves were added to the body, the beautiful cable added and then decreasing. I love the simplicity, the cable which is started thanks to a 5st increase into 1 st across the yoke. The cable sits on top of the sweater without any purling to offset it. I did change the collar slightly. The pattern says to knit up 8 rows, pick up a line of sts from the inside where the collar meets the body and bind these sts off with the collar. Knitting up 8 rows didn't leave me much for a collar and getting a straight line wasn't working. Instead, I knit the 8 rows and on the next row I K2tog, YO across the row. I added another 1.5" in st st, turned it over and bound off with the body sts. The picot hem isn't too noticeable and it gave me a nice edge to make sure it turned out straight.
Lovely! Not difficult and so gorgeous!
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Your sweater looks lovely! I was contemplating that pattern and your sweater has me thinking much more about it!
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