sew, knit, it's all stitches...

 A little sewing, a little knitting. I’m onto knitting the side panels and realized I forgot to take the cone weight out of the beginning amount - I’m down to 140g after the sleeves and feeling a little tense, even though visuals and common sense tells me the side panel is slightly smaller than the sleeve. While knitting the first side panel, I’m formulating a backup plan. I had used this yarn quite a lot and I remembered a small lace poncho I had made back in the poncho days -   https://knitwords.blogspot.com/2020/10/handy-work - Look at the bottom of that post for 'Glamour' - I remember making a ton of those - I could unravel that if necessary. 

At the underarm point of the side panel, it’s like making a neckline, although this one isn’t symmetrical - and, because I want this to be as smooth as possible, I’m going to shortrow the decreases but because of the indigo dye, this yarn won’t stand up to regular holding position of having the needles out and the back and forth of 50 or so passes over that row will make a lighter colour line across and though I might be able to convince myself that it doesn’t really matter since it is at the underarm and maybe won’t show so much, reality is it will show on the back. 

Here’s my tip - using the ravel cord method, put the first side - at right of 0, (here, this is the back side) to hold by knitting the stitches back out of work using the ravel cord and then cover the front with an old swatch, ( just happen to have a neckband waste yarn swatch that has a single-row cast-on that won’t add any extra bulk to the situation) hanging it on the sinker posts/gate pegs to prevent  damaging your work. 

Complete the left side, remove the
protective swatch, pull the sts back to work by carefully pulling out the ravel cord, and then knit the right side following the schematic. Second panel has to be knit in reverse…and I’m weighing the remaining yarn every 50 rows…no worries, at least 10g remain!