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It was bad enough when Jess was pestering me about Eris. But now that I have people I’ve never even met (like Natalie) and half of the San Diego knitters blog ring wondering why the heck I haven’t finished yet, I figured I should finally get those underarms seamed before I had the rest of the blog ring follow suit.

So I seamed one underarm. Sort of – I didn’t weave in the ends so that I could pick it out if necessary. Then I tried it on to see if I’d done a decent enough job or if I needed to do it over.

There’s a slight hole near the end of the seam, but that’s an easy enough fix. I have an even bigger problem to deal with…

I’m about 99.9% sure that the upper arm is tighter than I want it to be. I certainly can’t pull it on over a long-sleeved shirt, so I think I have a bit of a problem here. How I failed to notice this before is beyond me, especially since I could swear I tried on one sleeve before continuing with the other, but it happened. So I basically have two choices: I either resign myself to wearing Eris only with tank tops, or I frog and re-knit the sleeves.

Needless to say, I’m less than thrilled with either option, and I am kicking myself for not having paid better attention while I was working on this.

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.

I’ve been flying through the body of Eris, because it’s a great project to work on during events like anime showings and SnBs. Last Thursday evening, I finished the stockinette section and started working on the cabled hem…

…and then had to frog a bunch of rows, because it turned out that the body was about an inch longer than I’d wanted. Rarrrr.

Luckily, the second attempt was not so ill-fated. It’s still a bit on the long side, but I like it much better (and I got positive feedback on the length at the shindig, so I decided it was fine).

I finished the front earlier this week, but haven’t been able to take decent pictures before now. (I’ve been working overtime lately, so by the time I get home, natural light is pretty nonexistent.) Not that this picture is great, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the ones I took a couple of days ago.

Anyway, here’s what the hem looks like:

The back hem is currently in progress.

In the pattern, the cabled detail is asymmetrical – it’s only on the right side. Which I wasn’t a big fan of. So, I reworked it to feature the detail on both sides. This satisfies both my desire for symmetry and my newly realized love for cabling. (Seriously, the cables for this project are so much fun, I’m excited about working extras.)

And holy crap, my gauge has changed a lot since I started this project. Before I started, I swatched and figured that I needed size 5s for the cables and 6s for the body. So I finished the collar on 5s, but then I reswatched and realized that I now needed 4s for the body. And then I realized that I now needed to use 3s for the rest of the cables.

Yeah, I don’t get it either.