So, here’s the back of the Wallis cardigan from summer 08 IK. 
Since I am between the first two sizes, I did some pre knitting math- shooting for zero ease and drapey sleeves, not batwings. I’m using Elann Luna (cotton/viscose), which is perfect gauge-wise (5.25 spi) and quite drapey as well. The color is gorgeous “silver sage”, a pale celadon. The only issue is the yarn is fairly splitty and has very little resilience. I’m hoping the stitches will even out after blocking.
I swatched on size 5 needles and know I should have gone to size 3 for the double knit/rib pattern at the hem. However, I started the hem on size 4 because I wanted to use my knitpicks options. That was way to big, so I frogged and restarted on 3’s. Then, I pulled my knitting rather too violently out of my bag on the metro and about 10 stitches fell off the needle and, a few unraveled all the way down to the provisional cast on. Ugh. The hem pattern looks nice, but darn, it took forever. No longer than any other 1×1 rib, I suppose, but the double knit pattern meant I only really saw a one-row increase in length after two rows.
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