shoulder-pad free zone...

 the thing about using old patterns? What was the style back then? It was 25 years ago! At the time, I was feeling proud that we were getting away from that old drop-shoulder, no-fit,  big-is-better look and moving into more fitted look with a set-in sleeve but the shoulder pads! OMG! https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2018/03/i-had-lump-in-my-throat.html And, MSP knitters, I’m here to warn you – those sleeves, you could hide a football player’s pads in there! https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2017/01/evolution.html

I’ll tell you about the changes I’m making – basically making the same second) size again
but seriously, I am a bit bigger and I want this to fit over a shirt so I’m going with finished bust width of 108 cm instead of the 104 cm of the original. The length remain the same, 60 cm  but notice how the armscye is now started much higher and the width of it is now 8 cm instead of the old 6 cm. Opting for a much higher vee neck, moved it up too, so it starts 12 cm from top of shoulder instead of the 20 cm (I might change this to a round neck before I get to making the Front, which I can ponder whilst knitting the Back). Note, I usually knit a sleeve first, just to get the kinks out and settle into the rhythm of the pattern.

And, the sleeve! Here’s the big difference – check out the width of the sleeve at the underarm position, ‘L’ on the diagram – old-school, 23 cm for half the width, now, I’m going with 20 cm. ‘J’ was 16, now 15cm. ‘I’ was 13 cm, now 11 cm. ‘K’ was 38 cm, now 40 cm. Because the armhole was so big and oversized, the overall length was shorter with the armhole hanging so low!

I was going to apologize for the centimetres but no, get with the program! or get a two-sided tape measure…:)