  I'm new to this knitalong and have never blogged before, so as you can see from the picture below, I figured out how to post a picture before I figured out how to post the text. Oh, well. I'm using Ornaghi Filati Rio in a grape/gray/pink colorway. It's a little more pink in real life than in this picture.
I love the yarn (stretchy and variegated), but my gauge is off from the 5 sts and 7 rows per inch that Joan M-M called for in the pattern. I'm at 5.7 sts and 8.8 rows per inch and so have to make the 44" size rather than my size of 38". I also had to decrease every 4/5 rows alternatively, work 18 rows even, and increase every 6/7 rows alternatively in order to make it fit my torso. 
