shapely sweater of my own design

This is our guest room bedspread, with my "blocking rug". The rug is

textured and from IKEA. I will have to see if blocking on a textured

surface alters my knits in any way. Has anyone done this before? My

sweater and Noro kureyon Mistake rib scarf are blocking here. The scarf

used to be pretty short. I would fold it in half and loop the two ends

through around my neck, and it would end at the top of my chest. Now it

is probably about a third longer, and super soft. I washed it in

Eucalan after I subjected it to some smelly environments without

thinking ahead. Oops. I am quite happy with how my sweater is turning

out too. I better be happy with it for all the frogging and tinking it

has received thus far. It will have buttons to go with the buttonholes,

once I can find some more of the same design I picked out, and another

button band for the buttons to be sewn onto. I was just going to leave

it as is, with just the one button band, but it didn't look balanced

enough. Also, my collar trim looks like it ended too soon on the right

side, and needs to be extended. I might thicken the other button band

too, it looks kind of narrow in the pic.

Done