It’s the 2nd of March, and as expected I haven’t finished my Stripes! sweater. Why can’t we have a few more days per month?! We were short-changed in February after all.
I am on the first sleeve of the sweater, and I’m playing Yarn Chicken, boo hoo. I never like to cut it this fine, the yarn is from an Advent calendar, so there’s not much I can do. The stripes on the body are 8 rows in length. I feared that I wouldn’t have enough yarn for 8 rows on each sleeve.
And I was right. I’ve made 7 rows on the first complete stripe past the body divide.
Thanks to my trusty new scale, I’ll be weighing each colour, to know when I’m almost at the halfway point. I think I’ll be able to make 7 row stripes for all colours.
I have not cast-on for my March Sweater yet, but I will this week. Now that I’m on the sleeves, the stripe colour changes are happening more rapidly which is very motivating.
Have a great week!
Sonia Knits 
OK, so can you knit the sleeves two at a time, just knit each color from both ends of the yarn until you’re out of yarn, then switch to the next color? Just an idea!
Such a fun, bright sweater. Sometimes when I’m doing stripe sleeves, I do cut the yarn in half and make two balls. I am a fan of 2atatime sleeves. After dealing with the fiddliness of DPNs as I got down to the cuff on my latest sweaters, I really need to get back to knitting the sleeves 2atatime!
It’s such a fun sweater. Hopefully, you can get some knitting time in this long weekend.