somewhere in there i realized two things:

1) i never finish t-shirts because i hate working with stretch knits. just laying out the fabric to cut it is an ordeal! it wants to stick to itself and never lies flat then always ends up being too stretchy or not stretchy enough and if it gets pulled on at all during construction, suddenly the pieces don't line up properly. HASSLE!

2) the sizing on stretch knits is always wrong. whenever i follow the pattern's recommended sizes for my measurements, they come out too big. i should have known this from the get-go and when the pattern said to make a medium, i should have gone ahead and made the extra small instead.

in terms of actual construction, it went together super easy and came out looking essentially like the picture, or would have if i was, say, 50 lbs heavier. fortunately for me i am not. unfortunately for the pattern, that means it came out WAY too big and makes me LOOK like i am that much bigger, just from all the extra bulk all over. i'll try to snap some pics later.

now i don't know what to do. probably i could just trim down the sides and try to salvage it. i'd really like to think my very first project out of the gate isn't a total loss and it'd look cute with a little white turtleneck and some white tights underneath (not that i have EITHER of those things).

it's a bummer, too, because i even did the fancy french seams down the sides and everything. *le sigh*