My Dragon Wings Are Being Eaten by the Underarm!

There’s always some kind of snag when it comes to knitting.  For my latest sweater, I neglected to take the underarm curve into consideration when planning the placement of the dragon.  I didn’t realize this until the wing stitches were being consumed alive by the underarm decreases.

I’m going to have to rip back about 20 rows and but the wing is redesigned.  The new wing still looks pretty good and it will follow the curve of the underarm somewhat.

Speaking of underarms, I’m noticing that for a set-in sleeve to fit the curve of my body, the conventional bind off and every-other-row (EOR) decreases just aren’t cutting it.  My last sweater had so many stitches to decrease at the underarm that the underarm curve went up about 3 inches and looked a little strange with the EOR decrease approach.  Plus, this became a problem with designing my sleeve cap to match because I didn’t need to reduce so many stitches in the sleeve.  Using my store-bought sweater measurements, I’m finding that I have the same problem!  In order to match the shape of the store-bought, I must decrease every single row or do a double decrease every-other-row.  Here’s a close up of the EOR double decrease approach.

  Since I love my store-bought sweater, I’m going to trust the measurements taken from it and just ignore convention.  I really, really want this sweater to be a perfect fit.  The yarn is scrumptious and I just love the dragons.  Keep your fingers crossed for me please!