Hi All - newbie here!
I wanted to ask a question about a pattern I’m following. It’s a very easy pattern (why I chose it!) It’s a baby cardigan that knits in one piece up to the armholes, and at that point the pattern says to split for fronts and backs by casting off 6 stitches at armhole…done all that! it then says to leave these stitches on a holder while you do the sleeves.
I have knitted the sleeves to the armhole edge and cast off the 3 stitches at each end.
The pattern then says to knit across the front of the the cardigan, then the sleeve, then the back, then the next sleeve and the remaining front.
My question is… when I get to the first sleeve, there are too many stitches on my needle for the needle points to meet to actually knit across the sleeve? I tried to overcome this by transferring ALL the stitches onto a circular needle (was using straights) and trying to knit across the whole garment with that… which sort of works, except that its still really difficult to knit the sleeves?
Am I doing something wrong? or is it supposed to be like that?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!!
Jane3