Sweater sleeve not right

[celticdragonfly]

I did a lot of math yesterday, consulted bkseiver on the phone for sanity checks, and figured out how to do the sweater sleeve. Not 3" past the join and reduce every 4th row, no. I needed 2.5" past the join and then reduce every 3rd row. Okay. Worked on it.

Did some more sleeve knitting this morning, realized I'd gotten to 3"
past the join, not 2.5. Tinked back a couple of rows. Measured.
2.5". Counted rows. 14.

When I laid down the sweater and measured yesterday, I was getting 6.5
to 7 rows per inch. But if I'm getting that 2.5" and 14 rows, that's
5.6 rows per inch, and it will be totally different.

GAHHH!

maybe I just can't do sweaters with sleeves...

Comments

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouch. That's got to be maddening.

Aha!

[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

Sorry I was so slow to tumble to the solution. Don't knit by rows: knit by measurement. That is, if you were going to decrease every 4th row, and that was to equal 5/8", say, then decrease every 5/8", and it doesn't MATTER how many rows it was. Smile!