Knitting up the sleeves for Charlie was an incredibly fast business. I used a new ball of yarn for the sleeves, since the body ball of yarn was looking a little light and I thought I might want to leave it attached. (I was right.)
Both the sleeves and the body come to the same measurement, so even without a tape measure, it was easy to knit to length.
When I was done the first sleeves, rather than put all the stitches on waste yarn, I followed the next row of instructions until I got to knit the sleeves stitches to attach them to the body. I knit the first sleeve stitches, clearing my DPNs, and then knit the body up to where I need to knit the second sleeve stitches.
Because only two underarm stitches were held on each piece, I used a safety pin to hold them. Had I dug out four safety pins, I probably would have used four, but it was easy enough to use two.
Onward to knitting the second set sleeve!
I only had a little ball of yarn left for the body, so when I knit the second sleeve onto the body, I started with the ball of yarn attached to the sleeve instead. I thought it was very likely that it would get me through the yoke and that I would have less ends to weave in!
Next time I’ll talk about the colorwork yoke! How are things going for you? It’s really really fast, so especially if you’re a fast knitter, you could catch up to me in no time at all! Check out Charlie and the rest of the free patterns right here.
