It’s amazing how quickly the project grows, when the gauge is 3.5 sts per inch! That’s the gauge of my brown Circumnavigated Cardigan, by Medrith Glover. The pockets have been joined up, as shown here, by my lovely assistant Ella. The ribbing at the bottom is finished.
The sleeves are cast on at the level of the underarm with a provisional crochet cast on (pink yarn), as Ella demonstrates in the next photo.
I had knitted well beyond this point, when I found a mistake that no amount of fudging could correct. Okay, two mistakes: 1) a counting error–can you believe it??? And 2) an alteration I made to the pattern, which totally messed up the stitch count for the back of the neck.
Sometimes you really do need to follow the pattern as written.