Sleeve

When I started this sweater, I didn't like the idea of a seam where the sleeve meets the cuff, so I decided to make them one piece.

I cast on as many stitches as the cuff called for.  I noticed that the sleeve had fewer stitches, and I figured that this was to allow the cuff to fold over the sleeve.  So when I got to the sleeve part, I just adjusted to six fewer stitches with evenly spaced decreases.

Except, after I had knitted a couple inches of the sleeve, I read the finishing instructions again: those extra six stitches were meant to be taken up by overlapping the cuff ends before sewing the cuff/sleeve seam.  I don't know how I missed that.

Knitting the cuff was such a drag, and I am so happy to finally be doing the sleeve part that I really, really don't want to rip and start again.  If the cuffs look funny because they are bigger than the sleeves, I'll just have to live with that.  I know I am not a perfectionist by any means, and the mistake bugs me, but not enough to start over.

Of course, now I have to make the other sleeve the same so they match.