3KCBWDAY6 Sweater Skills

3KCBWDAY6 Today's topic is "improving your skillset."  I have only been knitting and crocheting 2 1/2 years now so I still have a lot of improving to do.  I try to push my skills by choosing projects that will make me learn new stitches and other techniques.  I crocheted my first sweater about a year ago and now my goal is to knit my first sweater.  I picked a fairly easy looking pattern from lion brand yarn and am using Vanna's Choice yarn in linen.

Here is the crochet sweater (pattern from Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Crochet: The Happy Hooker):

Here is the start of my first knit sweater: