The yarn gods have come through again. They have saved sooty mango and me from sleeve hell.

So here's the story... I'm adding sleeves to the mango tank pattern. And I just happen to like wide, long sleeves. Since I wasn't really following a pattern here, I decided make the sleeves exactly how I want! I had 10 balls of sooty all seasons cotton - no more than five were needed for the body, so I'm thinking I'm in good shape. To get the annoying ribbing out of the way, I go ahead and knit each sleeve up to the beginning of the sleeve cap shaping. Before I start the sleeve caps I run upstairs to my stash to get another ball of yarn. But there is no more sooty yarn left in my stash. Each sleeve has a meager little rest hanging off of it and then there's some palm sized remainders in the project bag and that's it! Finishing the first sleeve cap takes all the yarn hanging off the sleeve and all the little remainders in the bag. For the last sleeve cap, I've only got the little bit left hanging from the sleeve. Impossible! Of course the yarn is discontinued. There's some available from English Yarns, but I'd only need one skein. What a pain! I decide to just knit that sleeve as far as it will go and then order the extra ball. So I knit, and decrease, and knit, and decrease, and four more rows of shaping like so, and then six more shaping like so, and then three more like so, and then bind off and wait... I'm done. How did that tiny little leftover last that long?? It's like Chanukah!

This sweater brought to you by the generous and merciful yarn gods who watch over my knitting. (Yes, I do still have the collar to do, but I had planned on using other yarn for that anyway. ) Too bad the yarn gods don't do seaming....