Nice Kemp! nice colors!
I need to develop that (spelling errors follow) j’eune sais quois attitude - take a pattern, and then ADAPT it to your yarn, your needles, your look. I would never have thought of taking Tempting to the level you did - bigger yarn, sleeves, etc., yet look how nice and effective it is!
Hoping this will develop with experience - I got there with Quilting pretty quickly, hope that with knitting i will be able to go off the beaten pattern and soon!
LOVE the sweater… YES, please write it up!! I would love to do a sweater in that amount of time!
I love the sweater and the colors are wonderful 
THAT SWEATER IS GORGEOUS! Where in ITALY did you go? I bought yarn there this summer also.
holy cow that took you 5 hours!! Thats amazing! And its BEAUTIFUL!!!
We started in Rome and ended up in Milan with all the usual stops in between. The yarn though, I got in Florence. The store was amazing!
Im going to have to ask you to re-consider your luggage next time you travel. OR…just get him his own ticket! He can sit next to you on the plane and hold your yarn purchases! I cant imagine my yarn all alone and scared under the plane in cartage!! 
How great to have such a lovely reminder of Italy! The yarn really looks like precious jewels strung together–I love both the sweater and the yarn. And I wish I had your figure! Must be the Golf?? 