One sleeve is complete! I did make a couple of simple modifications to the pattern. When you split for the sleeves, the pattern has you cast on six stitches for the underarm. I did this, but when I picked up stitches for the sleeve, I actually picked up ten stitches. This gives me a roomier sleeve, which I like, and need, given my fairly muscular arms and broad shoulders (for a woman), and also prevents any of those pesky little gaps in the underarm. Some patterns will tell you to pick up an extra stitch on each side of the cast on stitches and then decrease them away, but this one did not. So, instead of having 70 stitches for the sleeve, I have 74. I also did not work any decreases until just before the ribbed cuff, at which point I decreased 20 stitches, so that I would end up with the 54 stitches for the cuff per the size that I was knitting. I then switched to the US 4 (3.5 mm) needles to work the ribbing. I worked six rounds of ribbing and then bound off in pattern.
I did order two more skeins of the Ewe Ewe Yarns Fluffy Fingering, and one more skein of the Magicland Yarns Marvelous Mohair, and I am very glad that I did. I started on the fifth skein of the Fluffy Fingering on this sleeve, and based on the usage rate on my second skein of Marvelous Mohair I will definitely use at least some of the third skein that I bought when I work the second sleeve. Fortunately the extra Fluffy Fingering that I bought is the same dye lot as the original four skeins.
Pattern: Copenhagen Cardigan by PetiteKnit
Yarn: Ewe Ewe Yarns Fluffy Fingering & Magicland Yarns Marvelous Mohair
Needles: US 4 (3.5 mm) and US 6 (4.0 mm)
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