I brought the frankensweater with me to Germany, but didn't do any knitting on it. I looked at it many times, trying to figure out why I was not inspired to knit further. I had stopped while working on the sleeve pieces. If you recall, each piece of the sweater is made up of several smaller pieces which are crocheted together. Here's the original pattern pic. With my yarn and my gauge (I've gotten a little off gauge over four months of neglecting this project) I'm not really conviced that the sleeves are going to work as well as the front does. I'm also not convinced that the sleeve shape and length are going to work for me. And I know that I'll never finish this sweater if I knit all the pieces, seam them, see that they look awful and then have to rip and reknit. So I've come to a difficult decision. I'm going to rip out the back pieces and all the sleeve pieces that I've knit so far. Then I'll reknit them as single units with no inside seams, leaving the cool crochet seams just on the front piece. I really think it looks cool and suspect that having it on the front will be enough. This way I can adjust the pattern to suit me better and end up with a result that I still like.

So now it's time to rip!