OMG! By George, I don't got it!

Well, dearest readers, as they say in Bridgerton, I spoke too soon. Last time I posted, I was absolutely sure I had solved the last of the design problems with the damned EGBDF sweater. But nay! If you've been following the story, I'm designing this sweater to have contiguous top down saddle shoulders, not with raglan seams but with a regular sleeve cap. And And I had designed it so that the first set of cap increases were all made in one row, 5 every other stich on one side of the stave of music and 5 on the other side every other stitch. Great in theory but not in actual practice. Why? There was a sharp turn at the corner where the saddle ends, and the sleeve cap begins. And it looked horrible and also created almost a puffed appearance. And I definitely wasn't going to for puffed sleeves on a unisex sweater. I today, I frogged the whole thing. It's possible I could have blocked it out but I hated how it looked so much, I couldn't even pick the thing up to knit. I took with me to Barcelona the last week in May, and even on the plane, I only got half a row done. 

The other issue I hated is that I designed with a technique I used on the Shmoneh sweater. I'm knitting flat but creating a seam up the back by doing wraps and turns on either side of a center marker. And I had screwed up the seam so badly that I hadn't even kept it in a straight line. Oh, well. I'm going to try it one last time. And this time, if I discover more issues with the construction, I'm going to throw in the towel and design it to be knit flat and seamed. But for the nonce, my OCD is in full force and I'm like a bulldog with bone; I can't let go.