The moral of the story is...

Just thought I'd point out the value of reading and fully understanding your knitting pattern before embarking on the long arduous journey of wool buying and working on the same pattern for like 10 months (or more), then cursing your incompetance, until you find out one day that the cause of much of your frustrations lies in the fact that the goddam pattern was wrong in the first place.
I'm not bitter...really.
I just came to this realization on Saturday when my avid knitter co-worker pointed out that my internet sweater pattern neglects to give the instructions on knitting the shoulders.

On a lighter note,these are the cutest things ever and I need to try and figure out how to make them!