knitting along

I have been knitting along doing the tiger and I have about 2" done. I am enjoying this pattern. But as usual I didn't pick out the background color for the sky. And I think I'm going to do the rev st st. But subject to change. I'll have to go thru my stash of yarns to see what blues I have. I did a much better provisional cast-on- it's a crochet cast-on that I found on "You-tube". Also using the shorter size us3 needles. Hopefully this will all work out in the end. Back to knitting!