After finishing my needlepoint excursion I went back to working on my Holly Sweater and quickly finished up the sleeve. When I started the sleeve I worked the decreases as the pattern calls for, but when I tried it on I decided that the decreases (every five rows!) were making the sleeve too tight, so I ripped back to the row before the first decrease and worked the sleeve without decreases. That made for much easier knitting as I didn’t have to make sure to adjust the pattern every time I decreased to line up the motifs correctly. When I got to the cuff I worked a decrease round to get me to the correct number of stitches, from 96 stitches down to 64, which meant I worked k1, k2tog all the way around. I also only worked 22 motifs instead of 23, as the pattern size (XS) called for, and worked 12 rows of ribbing before binding off. The sleeve length is perfect and I like the way it gathers in at the cuff. I think it fits with the easy of the body.
Pattern: Holly Sweater by Ruth Sorensen
Yarn: Shetland Wool
Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm) and US 5 (3.75 mm)
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