Uh-Oh!!!

I feel like the cross country skier who made a wrong turn on the relay course yesterday!! I'm getting close to the top, and I started thinking about how I was going to do the decreases on the sleeves. After I cut the steeks, I will pick up stitches all the way around and start working the colorwork on the sleeves. Does anybody see the problem here?

Yep, I screwed up royally! I put the stitches on the holder when I started the intarsia, not when I started the main colorwork. (Lesson: Always read the pattern thoroughly before starting!! Studying the pictures of the completed item would have helped, too...) As a result, when I pick up the stitches for the underarm, I would be joining into a rather large white section of the body! Much swearing ensued at this point. I stared at this for over an hour this morning, trying to figure out if there was a way I could knit the pouch stitches up to the steeks and cut.

I called SchoolHouse Press in a minor panic and talked to Meg. She came up with a brilliant idea: since I had to create a gusset under the sleeves, I will create a matching gusset when I pick up the sleeves. I will do a rapid decrease to get rid of the 14 rows of stitches, create a triangular white gusset under the arm, and it will look like I planned it the whole time! :-) Thank you, Meg!!!

Whew. Back to my knitting!!