It’s unusual to have you pick up twice as many sts as were bound off at the underarm but it may be to give you a bit more stretch at the underarm and width to the sleeve cap. You can pick up in every V and in some of the spaces between sts to get to 8.
The pattern does refer to the newly cast on sts at the underarm (4sts not 8) although the wording is a bit odd. At least for each size the numbers are doubled. It doesn’t seem that there’s an error in the number to cast on at the underarm (8sts rather than the 4 in the pattern) since that would adversely affect the sts needed for the lace border.
It would be worth an email pointing this out to the editor or publisher in both cases. You are actually test knitting and editing this pattern for them.
I saw someone else on ravelry had also done it, but they did the large size so I don’t think they had the issue that I’m having on the small where the numbers don’t quite add up. I think it really is just the small size having that issue
I agree. I checked out several sizes and they seem to make sense and will work with the lace border. Good of you to pick up the error in the small size.
All right, last question, I promise, because I am absolutely finishing this thing today. I’m overthinking the sleeves again. If I’m slipping the 75 stitches onto the needle, where do I attach the yarn when I go to pick up the stitches? It feels like if I do it at the pick up part, then the yarn is gonna be in the middle of the round. Is that fine, or would that cause an issue other than just weaving in the ends?
You’ve made good progress. Slip the 75sts, then start the pick up of 8sts at the beginning of the underarm sts. The start of the pick up will be offset to the right of the underarm sts but that’s ok. Place a marker for beginning of round after picking up 4 of the sts then continue to pick up 4 more sts then join to the 75 slipped sleeve sts.
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I was thinking of picking up the sts from the knit side (see the blue dots inside the circle):
Here’s also a nice method for avoiding the gaps between the held sts and the picked up sts. It gives you a couple of extra sts but you can decrease them on the next round.
Still weaving in ends but it’s done. Some stitches on the left side tried to run away but when I sewed the icord together it hides that
That looks darling. I really like the i-cord bind off, such a neat, pretty edge.