Being a self-taught knitter has all kinds of advantages. That said, there are a few things which make an item graceful and those are often the kind of great skills that are taught. I am NOT a skilled seamstress, especially not where knitting is involved. Sure, I know: practice makes perfect. As far as sewing goes, my experience has been: practice makes frustrated.
In the old sweater, the seams are not the work of a skilled craftswoman. No, indeed. The seams are the work of someone who wanted arms attached to torso and had some vague, possibly tribal awareness that the attachment would last longer if there was a high density of stitches.
I would very much like to have worked through this deficiency in my skills before I go too far with the next level. Of course, if I'm going to make a steeked sweater (as is the plan) I won't have nearly as much seaming as I would if I made it in bits. But there will still be some seams and they'll have to be dealt with by someone who knows how.
In my defense, I don't think the desperately bad seaming has a terrible effect on the outside of the sweater.
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