So yesterday when I said I was almost done I really really was. In fact all I had to do was sew up one shoulder, do the one row for neckline, sew up sides and set in sleeves. I didn’t want to. Personally I think its idiotic to knit a st st sweater in bulky novelty yarn in pieces so resent sewing them up. Its been 2 days of avoiding before I started but I’m not done yet. Oh no gentle readers. First there is the lovely armhole to sleeve cap sewing in problem:

How freaking huge is the armhole compared to the sleeve cap? Huge thats how huge. HUGE. So huge that the armhole extends beyond cap, beyond bound off sts that begins sleeve cap, beyond the freaking Cast on edge of sleeve. HUGE HUGE HUGE. Am I sure? Yes its huge:

 That edge along right of picture is the CAST ON of sleeve and that little C to its left is the Bind Off to begin armhole shaping plus first few rows of armhole. I am not imagining hugeness here. It’s huge. Should I say it again? HUGE.

Ah but thats not what is bringing me to tears. No not my inherent resistence to sewing up the sweater in first place followed by some whacky armhole/sleeve ratio but …. *sigh* I am stubborn. I figured I would just, you know, gather a bit here or there and make it fit. Ha Ha Ha. And here is where the novelty yarn factor did me in. Begin aside. BTW I enjoy novelty yarn for fun factor but have only spent my cold hard earned cashiola on the stuff twice in 30 years. I enjoy it but ummmm hate it. End aside. So I am sewing in my sleeve cap and go to tighten the mattress stitch. I like mattress stitch. I like just pulling my strand of yarn and having everything just zip into place. Did I say pull my strand? Yes I did. Wanna know what happens when you pull on this yarn? It breaks into two. Suspecting this would happen I carefully used my needle tip to tighten each and every little freaking mattress stitch into shape. Which was great until I hit the portion where my mattress stitching must have pierced an edge stitch or carried yarn along back cause we are alternating hanks as per instructions. What I had going on was a big ol loop that wouldn’t zip, scootch nothing into place. Such a big ol loop it makes the armhole look miniscule. Undo the freaking mattress stitch. The already into place stuff had to be pulled to rip the thread cause you know for a fact there was no way I could possibly figure out which part of floof was the sewing up floof. You have all figured out what happened by now haven’t you? Yes dearies I tore my stitches along side edge. Not any side edge mind you but the side edge that also included the hank changes aka extra strand carried along side. Is it bad? Judge for yourselves:

I cannot figure out how to squidge the loop into knitting. I cannot figure out if the loop is part carried and caught in back strand or part of which row. What I can do is cry. Cyas.