The peacock sweater adventure continues ...

So, I measured myself while sitting on the couch and made a schematic of my sweater based on my gauge swatch.  I looks pretty good, or so I thought. I took my yarn and the schematic to the cafe and stitched away.  I didn't think to hold the piece up to my chest (thank goodness, because that would have looked weird), so I didn't notice ...

... how FREAKY HUGE the front left chest piece was.  Whoa!  I hadn't even gotten to the part where I charted the increase for the armhole.  The t-shirt I'm comparing my swatch to has a pretty deep v-neck, as it is.  The two pins mark where my bust and my waist are.  As you can see, my v-neck is half-way to my belly button.

Realizing that something was very wrong, I measured myself again.  This time, while I was looking in the mirror.  What a difference looking at you're measuring makes!

With my fancy new CORRECT measurements I made a fancy new CORRECT schematic.  And I started charting the back, too.

The new charts are working like a charm.  I'm basing the pattern on my measurements and not the t-shirt, but it's encouraging that my left front almost exactly matches the shirt.