One thing I learned while making the old sweater was that there are different thicknesses of yarn. I know that this is not a secret, but I didn't understand it until I was making this sweater. It didn't (I think) strongly affect the build of the sweater itself, but I ran out of some colours and not others. Thicker yarn has fewer metres in a 100g skein. It's a little thing, but it still nags at me that the top pattern on the sleeves is lilac and blue but on the sweater torso, it's lilac and green. It should have been lilac and green on the sleeves according to the colour repeat rules I had devised. But the green was a thicker yarn than the others and there wasn't enough to finish as I had planned.
It has to be admitted that even though I am still annoyed by the variance, no one else is. It's still a good sweater. Thus, there is another lesson: nagging problems aren't sweater-ruiners. They're just little nagging problems. Minor background bugs.
The last lesson I have already mentioned: a bit of difference between the yarns doesn't matter. A little bit thicker, a little bit thinner ... it all came out in the wash. I might have been lucky with that, though. I would hate to take too great a liberty. Still, a bit of variation is OK, especially with the pattern changing all the time.
Nonetheless, for my next sweater, I will be sure to have all matching wraps per inch and lots of extra no matter what.
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