Swatching for Juliet

I've finally put aside my Gothic Scarf for long enough to swatch for Juliet.

 
I swatched and I swatched and I swatched.  Since the pattern calls for a bulky yarn, I started with my yarn double stranded.  I'm using Rowan's RYC Soft Tweed yarn for this project, but I must have been having a yarn blank out because it looked like a worsted weight to me.  So, I double stranded it and swatched.

No good — I was getting 12 stitches to 4 inches, not 14 as the pattern demanded.  And, I didn't like the fabric.  It was too thick.  Having looked around on Ravelry and realizing this was actually a bulky yarn, I decided to single strand it.  I started at the pattern's suggested needle size of 10.5 and got a huge piece of fabric, about 5 1/2 inches at 14 stitches.  I knit gauge swatch after gauge swatch, finally ending up just a smidge over four inches on US 8 needles.

Are you sensing a theme here?  All of a sudden, it seems like everything I'm knitting is gray.  The scarf, the sweater — I assure you it was not intentional but I do love gray- the moodiness of it heading into spring.  Although the RYC yarn is completely different from the baby alpaca I'm knitting the scarf from, it is a unique and wonderful yarn, spun from a blend of wool, silk, and rayon.

The question is, though, will Juliet be perfect, custom fit after all that swatching?  I'm notoriously bad at sizing.  So don't hold your breath.