I just finished Roundabout and I'm not overly impressed. I like the body, but I hate HATE the straps.
It is interesting that you don't get a good look at the straps in the book. They are extraordinarily too wide and only the ribbing pulls them back in. The placement is as per the pattern and just looks bad. The straps are too far from the underarms. I just hate them.
The pulling up in the back is my fault because I shortened the straps significantly, which was good for the front, but not the back.
Tomorrow I'm undoing the straps and starting over. I'll probably do a skinnier version of the called for straps. Or maybe start them out wider under the arms and include some decreases to thin them out over the shoulder. I don't know yet. I'm just annoyed that the pattern picture hides the ugliness of the strap placement and that I didn't study the few pics of finished ones for how the straps looked.
Sigh.
(Oh, and I don't know what the camera did to the color of the yarn. It is not so neon!)
Good luck redoing the straps. In my opinion, I think that it looks great on you!
Those straps look way too big for your body - you get swamped in it. Are you going to keep the V neck, or make it more squared?
That short hair is still so cute!
(I'm reserving comment on the sweater until you redo it, hee hee.)
Agreed, straps aren't great like that. The color of the yarn, what about the color of you?
You are so right about the straps. They are not attractive. I am sure you will invent something perfect. I can't wait to see!