As I've moved past the waist increases and decreases on the body, and reached the part of the instructions that say to knit until the body reaches the final length, I decided to put Ginevra on some waste yarn and get a feel for the fit and length.

The picture is somewhat deceiving because of the big open neck.

It appears as if I'm barely to the waist, but in actuality the sweater is just about 2 inches shy of an acceptable length. At this point, I have 3 skeins of yarn left. I think that I'll be working on the sleeves to see how much yarn I have left and base the final length on that. The malabrigo is knitting up into a nice heavy sweater, so a 3/4 length sleeve might be a good idea.

With a push, I could probably have this finished in a week. My goal, however, is to have a pretty new sweater for the 1st day of classes in about 3 weeks.