Thanks everyone for your encouragement and suggestions. As you can see I have seamed up the first sleeve. It is a bit snugger than I would like but I have decided to make the second sleeve as per the pattern (less two needle sizes). I think it will block out just enough, and/or stretch with wear. This yarn has a lot of give and I can get another hand down the sleeve with ease.

This is pattern is supposed to be “one size fits all”, but it is pretty huge in the body if you knit it up at the suggested gauge; However, with sleeves which are more fitted than the body (by design) you run the risk of the sleeves and/or armscye being too small if you knit it on smaller needles as Steph and I have done. I am a US size 10 with arms more like a 12 and I would not recommend making the smaller version if you are any bigger than that as you may run into trouble with the sleeves or armscye.

I have to say that I am really hating my arms today. The weight gain (and inability to maintain the regular exercise routine that I was in) due to my infertility and treatment thereof really get me down sometimes. It seems like every thing in my life goes in cycles, and given that my menstrual cycles are whacky the cylces of my life are whacky and the drugs etc just make it all even more fun. I am in a holding pattern treatment wise at the moment and trying not to think too much about still not being pregnant, about still not having sibling for Isabelle. Somehow trying not to focus on the real problem makes my yo-yoing weight much more frustrating. I remind myself that I have taken the weight off before, kept it off and been blissfully happy with my health and my body for long periods of time. I know that if I have done it before I can do it again once this is over, but some days having a puffy face and fat arms just really gets to me.

I cast off “sleeve a”, added the two missing rows to “sleeve b” and cast that off too and look, they match!

That really is two sleeves, just in case you were wondering where “sleeve b” had run off to. When I saw that they matched and no ripping was required I was so excited I put the jigsaw together and look, it’s jacket shaped.

All it needs now is some fronts and a seaming party. There will be no more knitting for me tonight as I am breaking out the sewing machine and going to work on a quilt I am making for Isabelle, I am hoping to have it done for christmas. If I get all the butterflies top stitched tonight it will be quite a milestone for me and I won’t be able to do anymore quilting until I have bought the next round of fabric so I will be casting on the baby hoody fronts tomorrow night I expect. I hope to be done with this project by the weekend ’cause that Lamb’s Pride is whispering to me, can you hear it? “Booga Bag, booga bag….”