What's that you say? That my friend, is a giant ball of re-do, aka try-again, aka knit-it-over. Or you could just call it, I messed up so bad there's no fixing it.
This is a once and future sleeve. I made two sleeves for my beautiful Twisted Yoke Cardigan and when I got to the end of the second one I realized that it was about an inch and a half longer than the first one. Oooops! When I went back to diagnose my problem I found that I had put the decreases in at too short an interval on the first one. Both sleeves followed the pattern but one was knit a size smaller than the other one. Apparently I couldn't remember what size I was working on when I started the first sleeve, or I just simply thought I was making a different size than I really was. Why didn't I write anything down when I started the sweater?? It's because I think my memory is infallible, but unfortunately it is not. And I had proof in my two different sized sleeves.
At first I thought I could make up for it by knitting on to the end of the first one but then I realized that the sleeve would be oddly shaped no matter what I did and they would never match. Maybe it would look funny and maybe it wouldn't but I don't care to find out so I ripped. I ripped both of them. I have a little remorse about ripping the one that was probably right but I was so rattled by the discrepancy in length that I don't want to chance it. These will be exactly the same! At least the pattern for the sleeves is simple and doesn't take too long to knit. Stupid sleeves.
Hopefully (but I doubt it) I have learned my lesson and will take very detailed notes in future. At least write down what size I'm making. That's pretty simple right? I can do that.
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