Knitting — failure

I had fallen in love with a sweater pattern online. I kept going back to it, read pattern notes on Ravelry. I finally decided that I could maybe make the sweater. I purchased the yarn and the pattern and hoped I had the right needles for the project. I decided that the picture looked like the sweater might be too big, and without swatching just sort of eliminated some stitches. The finished product looked good in photos-but I had sort of tucked back the part that flared out at the bottom, and if you looked closely I had actually added...