Regia baby sweater that's just not working for me...

This self-patterning yarn has been a big disappointment but I think it's partly due to my impatience and partly due to my pre-conceived notion of what this was going to look like. The sample knitted up in the store was ever-so-cute but they were out of that particular yarn colourway and that particular pattern. The store owner convinced me that any self-patterning yarn would yield the same results and she helped me find one that would self-pattern into quasi-fair isle rather than a striping pattern... In any case, here it is...

When I'm done with the VK Aran sweater, I'm going to frog it and attempt my first pair of socks.