So last night I finished the last front, in short time as predicted. I agonised over how to pick up as many stitches on the cast off part of the neck as recommended, knit it and was aghast at how badly it sat. So I ripped most of it out and knit it again as tight as I could. No luck it looked just the same. I didn’t short row the neck because the number of stitches supposedly needed in the neckband was so many more than this method would have left on the needles. More fool me, short rows probably would have produced the perfect number of stitches for a perfectly fitting neck.

I decided I could live with it and attached the arms, my first attempt I realised I was getting one cast off arm stitch to two rows of body. The arm would have taken up more than half the body of the sweater so I ripped it out and did it one stitch for one row, which is what the instructions seemed to be implying. Well just look at it now, all puffy. Ugh. Of course I had to seam the whole damned thing before deciding I was worried about the arms.

I am going to go knit a Simple Hat, or perhaps a pair of shoes while I consider whether to fix it out or not, and if so how.