I wrote this pattern from scratch for the Bond using Maggie Righetti's book
Sweater Design in Plain English. Although this book is long, it doesn't say much and takes a long time and a convoluted path to say what it does. She expects you to work through all the lessons in textbook fashion, adding a little more information each chapter. I think it'd be much more useful if she just isolated the techniques and described them, and then told you how to put them together.
Even though I made plain and ribbing swatches and put ease in my measurements, things came out the wrong size. The waist ribbing was supposed to be deeper, the neck opening was way too big, the sleeves are too tight, you name it. The baby weight yarn was borderline too fine for the Bond and too thick for the standard gauge, and the result was incredibly messy decreases along the neck edge and armholes. Doesn't it look great on the dummy, though?
