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Last week I was able to finish the first body piece of Carla. The raglan decreases threw me for a bit of a loop the first time around, but I figured out that decreasing in twos (ie: k3tog) was key, so the second time around went much more smoothly! Yesterday I cast off the second body pieces and here's what they currently look like:

Measuring the pieces has become a bit of a challenge, as the fabric is soooo stretchy. If I were more of a detailed oriented person, as some of you may be, I'd count the rows for each pieces so that you know you're knitting them identically. I didn't do this, nor do I currently have the patience to do it, so I'm hoping that it will all come out right in the end.

So now I'm zipping along on my first sleeve:



Not bad for only getting about an hour's worth of time knitting it last night. I had to remember Clara's post about the sleeve to know that I'm doing ok. It may not currently look like what the finished sleeve, but that's because of the dropped stitches that happen in the st-st part later.