11/2 Making another. Bought four skeins but had only three wound, since I might not need four.

11/5 sure enough, need a number 4 needle to get the gauge. But, just from a few inches of the neck, the yarn looks great. Using a big circular as usual.

11/8 Argh! Knit 7 inches only to discover it was too small! Back to 5’s. There’s always the dryer when it’s done.

11/9 Ahhh. 10-12 increases into the yoke, enough stitches to fit comfortably on the big circular with no loop. The stitch markers mark the increases and separate the sleeve from front and back. A different color one marks the beginning of the row.

11/10 Just divided the yoke to separate the front and back from the sleeves. A little tricky; follow the pattern carefully.

11/17 Motoring along. Past the waist, headed for the ribbing. Sundays, when no one is up but me, are great knitting (and paper reading) time.

11/21 Moving on to the waistline ribbing. Definitely only three skeins for the smallest size, since I am still on (though nearly at the end of) the second skein and have only three inches of ribbing and two sleeves from the pit down to go.

12/4 Finished the ribbing, now on to the sleeves.

12/25 Xmas has been very distracting. Only made it down to start the ribbing on sleeve #1. But, Xmas day afternoon, they climb and I knit

12/29 Almost done. Couple more rows, then rib the second sleeve, sew in the ends, and wash. Then on to a silver shrug project for my daughter.

1/2 Last cast off and first try on. Just have to see in some ends, wash, and block.

1/18: A last note: one challenge with using a lightweight yarn knit to a looser gauge is washing and blocking. It is really hard to get them back to the right size, as opposed to something larger and longer. Frankly, I let them dry for a while on a screen and the put them in the dryer on a very low setting for 10 minutes at a time. It’s a risk -- the blue one came up a lot in the sleeves, more than I would have liked. But I don’t know another way to go.