I followed Pfirsch's advice and tried the Saranac stitch.

This was supposed to be the gauge, but I thought it was ridiculous to crochet a square and then frog it or leave it aside. My daughter saw it and asked ifit was a purse for her...

I said yes

I've been busy working (yes, actually I do have a job, even though I spend too much time blogging and surfing the internet... not to mention crocheting!)
I didn't stop crocheting though... I may actually spend more time crocheting as my new job is quite far from my home, and I will take advantage of the time I spend in buses and trains to crochet... as soon as I get used to having my sore cold fingers crochet as if I were warm and comfortable at home.

I wonder why I never thought of crocheting socks before I found crochetville.org...

For this first try I used a n# 3 crochet and a sport weight acrylic...
Not the best choice : the material is quite thick and will only fit in my (too) big boots, besides, it's starting to pill already :/
The stitch I chose is a kind of back post single crochet (the actual name of it is "back loop single crochet" if I trust stichguide.com : the hook is inserted in the back strand of the stitch from the previous row), not the best choice either, it tends to stretch into an openwork material, which goes against its primary purpose : keep me warm...

I tried to make a sweater imitating the style of the baby it's cold outside jacket featured in Crochet me magazine, except, I didn't want to make a jacket, just a sweater with as little sewing as possible.I intended to crochet from bottom back to bottom front with an increase for the sleeves and a hole for the collar, the finished fabric would have the shape of a cross.
I had a few problems...
First it looks like my daughter grew A LOT while I was constructing it, but it was ok, I improvised sides to widen it while attaching the sides of the sweater and I thought I would just lengthen the arms afterwards with a contrasting yarn.
Then it looked like the space I left in order to crochet a collar was much too HUGE, I tried to narrow it later, but it was just a hot mess.