Seetaa no Monogatari Part 3.5

Well, Kim e-mailed me back and ... I had to rip back my sweater to the 4 inch mark (which was a good thing anyways because I didn't like the original look on how I had initially increased everything). :(

So, here's what happened:
I checked with Kim about my gauge and that ended up being fine.  Then, Kim asked me if I had divided up for the sleeves and body yet.  I said no and proceeded to count the stitches out to see if I were to divide things up how many stitches I currently have.  What I discovered was ... I had too many stitches! *yikes*   So .... Kim "gently" recommended to me that I might want to consider ripping out what I had and recalculate how many rows I really did need to increase (instead of going hog wild and increasing every other row like I had been doing).  Hence, ripping ensued! :P

Then I spent an evening figuring out my recalculation:
I started with a total of 126 stitches in which I divided up the body for 46 stitches on each side, the sleeves for 15 stitches on each side and 4 seam stitches; and I've completed a total of 24 rows at the 4 inch mark (in which I was increasing for a total of 12 rows), so ... I had a total stitch count of:
Body: 71 stitches on each side
Sleeve: 40 stitches on each side
8 rows = 1 inch

I need a total of 181 stitches (total) for the body and 55 stitches (each) for the sleeves.

Thus, to get to my total (required) stitches for the chest and sleeves, I would need to do the following:
 for the Body                       Sleeves
M1 = total sts added 4    M1 = total sts added 2
K (in the round 1x)          K 3x
M1 = total sts added 8
K
M1 = total sts added 12  M1 = total sts added 4
K                                     K 3x
M1 = total sts added 16
K
M1 = total sts added 20  M1 = total sts added 6
K                                     K 3x
M1 = total sts added 24
K
M1 = total sts added 28  M1 = total sts added 8
K 2x 
M1 = total sts added 30  M1 = total sts added 10 
K 2x                               
M1 = total sts added 32  M1 = total sts added 12
K 2x
M1 = total sts added 36  M1 = total sts added 14
K 2x
M1 = total sts added 40  Add the seam stitches to the sleeve count =
                                       2 sts on each side (total sts added 16)

Thus, this should get me back to the total of 7 inches needed and get the correct total stitch count needed for the body ((71 * 2 = 142) + 40 = 182) and the sleeves (40 + 16 = 56) - eh, close enough! :P

So, as of this posting, I've got to about 6 inches before I lost my note on which row to increase or do a regular round (which prompted me to put my "note" on a much more secure place - like this blog! :P).  Here's what it looks like now:

(Kim likes to say "Knit like the wind!" at the end of her blog posts.  Instead of knitting like the wind, I've been knitting more like a fiend (instead of the wind) so I can get in enough rows in time for class!  :P And, nearly had a stroke when I lost my note! :P)

I hope to be able to hit the 7 inch mark before class and start dividing the stitches up in time for my last class. :)  Wish me luck! :)