before & after

Sleeve number one underway. Yeah, that's the same sleeve. Notice something different in the two pictures? After knitting several inches into the orange, I had to rip back to the red, lengthen it and reknit the orange. I was nervous about tackling the sleeves, since I'm doing the stripes on my own and have to make sure that they match up with the stripes on the body. I did lots of math before I set off to start this first sleeve to guesstimate how much extra red I needed to knit (sleeves are longer than the body, of course). I followed the numbers I got and realized that although the colors were lining up, the sleeve was turning out too short. Did I mention that I suck at math? Then it occurred to me that I could simply count backward from the armhole shaping to get the length of each stripe correct. Doh! Rip, reknit and I'm back to the orange again.

And I've still got another sleeve to knit!