Knit a sleeve, rip a sleeve

I was doing so well with Eris. Really, I was! I got the body done, and flew through half of a sleeve, and figured, “hey, I’m on track, I can totally finish knitting this sweater by the end of the month!”

And then I tried the sucker on and realized, to my horror, that I hadn’t calculated ease for the sleeves properly.

So, I ripped back.

Chances of making that completion goal? Slim at best.

The problem is, I have short, not-so-skinny arms – which aren’t accounted for in the pattern. I could just stop knitting when I got down to the right part, except then the decreases would be a bit off. Sure, my arms are short, but they still have normal human proportions – if I didn’t adjust the number of decreases accordingly, my wrists would be swimming in knit fabric.

Grrarr.

So yes, I have been knitting. I haven’t been posting a lot this month because most of my progress is fairly boring, but I’ve been working on everything, at least.