It May Not Seem Like Much...
...but it's a great victory for me.
I made 4 swatches for this sleeve before getting gauge -- one after I had officially started the sleeve. I cast on for this sleeve at least three times for various different reasons, most involving dumb counting mistakes. I repaired numerous mistake stiches via dropping whole columns of stitches and picking everything back up correctly. I ripped out the entire cap of the sleeve after realizing that I was doing the cap shaping completely incorrectly. It would be nice if I could blame this on my inability to properly interpret a French language pattern, but I was using the English translation instructions.
Sigh. I figure that when I sum it all up, I probably came close to knitting this sleeve almost twice.
Hopefully I'll do better on the next one. I keep looking at the picture of the sweater and in spite of my technical difficulties, I still totally want to have this sweater to wear this spring. (Yes, I did say totally... am I a child of the 80's or what?) I figure I am going to tackle the second sleeve next -- then all the second sleeve syndrome will be gone before it even gets started.
I TOTALLY get where you are coming from. Quick, knit the second one before PTSD sets in.
Bloglines still sucks. Grrr...
Hope it goes better than this one. But it'll look so good when it's done!
Oh no! I say totally, and I am not sure I really qualify as a child of the 80s (born in '83)!
But. Glad the sleeve is behaving itself now. How do you find the Eponge to work with? If Phildar ever post me my pattern book I'll be casting on for an Eponge jumper very soon too :)
Like, that sweater will be totally tubular when you finish it!