Working up sleeve parameters
This is a full set of biceps lines (straight across the bottoms) paired with armscye lengths (the curved lines on top).
The increased width allows the sleeve to fit a fuller upper arm without binding across the biceps.
The length of the sleeve cap must remain the same to fit the bodice.
The length of the underarm seam must remain the same for the sleeve to be right.
Those triangles at the underarm mean it will be possible to move the arm more freely.
Here’s the common range of ease in sleeves. No ease is uncomfortable and gives the sausage-in-casing look; 1”/2.5 cm. to 2”/5 cm. is usual. More than 3”/7.5 cm. is overkill unless you’ve got a proportional amount of ease in the sweater body.
This is the actual knit sleeve with extra ease pinned out.
Actual sleeve parts and Photoshopped examples for the tutorial.
Workup for modified Cancun top:
The Cancun is blocked, ready for the end stuff: weaving in a few ends, weighing yarn actually used, making a project page and relinking the photos, documenting how the pattern went together from the wad of notes*. And then official PHOTOS. It was done on US 7/4.5mm.
Although the blocking started on a table, I realized I had this nigh-fifty-year-old tie-dye t-shirt form, which worked perfectly.
* and raising eyes to the heavens in gratitude for sticky notes
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