The Man Sweater has begun. I may boast that I don't engage in much social media, but that obscures the fact that I live in Yarn Fantasyland during a significant portion of my online time.
The Man Sweater is a good example. I love the Churchmouse website. They have beautiful, basic, stylish patterns. The yarns they carry cut across multiple genres. Once I saw the Saddle Shoulder Man's Pullover pattern, I knew it would be a great match for my man's shoulders.
He participates minimally in choices. He is not a shopper. I searched the interwebs (USA, United Kingdom) for excellent yarn. To keep the flavor of the garment, I wanted something tweedy. That meant that it would have to be both tweedy, and a similar gauge. I set 2 or 3 choices in front of him, and he pointed at the Fibre Company Cumbria. (Of course, I stuck that in front of him because I had been curious to try the yarn, and it seemed like a reasonable gauge match. And, of course, yes on the tweedy.)
Webs wanted me to order a full bag, since they didn't normally carry that color. I found it at Wool and Co. When it arrived, I swatched. This time, I actually wrote down the PREWASH measurements. 5 st/inch prewash, 4.75st/inch postwash.
The pattern called for a cable cast-on. It is very twiddly and fiddly. Since I was tempted to bag that, and use a long tail cast on, I looked up the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The long tail cast on had a smooth, single yarn edge, with an advantage of stretchiness.

The cable cast on, alas, made more sense. (credit: http://www.jessicabiscoe.co.uk/archives/casting-on-comparison-methods)

I can see the advantage of that corded edge. It gives a finished look to the edge of the sweater bottom. The lack of stretchiness probably won't bother Mr. SnakeHips. I briefly (time counted in microseconds) contemplated a tubular cast on. That does not treat my hands well, and was quickly discarded as an option.
And now that all this is here in black and white, I see that I have to rip back to the fiddly part, hope to get it back on the needles without a complete redo, and add more stitches. (Let us just say delicately that 19/5 is 4.75 and not 4.5. It was most likely a transcription error, but fatal, nonetheless.)
And for those of you keeping track (or not):
Day 1 - Spanish
Day 2 - French
Day 3 - Danish
Day 4 - Hebrew
Day 5 - Turkish
Day 6 - Latvian
Day 7 - Azerbaijani
Day 8 - Latin
Day 9 - Sesotho