What on earth was I thinking? Oh.

I started a lopapeysa KAL back in 2016 under the completely mistaken notion that I would need something to knit while doing chemo. To be fair, that was completely within my worldview at the time. I couldn't imagine sitting in a chair for 3-6 hours without something to knit. But that was not what chemo had in store for me, particularly when I turned out to be allergic to one of the (plant-based!) ingredients.

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So I got about four inches into it, and set it aside. I recently worked my way back to it in the knitting pile, just about the time I was bemoaning not ever finishing a sweater, and picked it up again. I wasn't in a hurry to blog about it. An adult-sized raglan sweater knit from the bottom up, even in a loose gauge over big needles, is not particularly photogenic until you start the yoke pattern.

Over the last week it slowly dawned on me that I did not have enough yarn for the sweater. What's more, I knew that at the time -- the yarn required for my size is clearly highlighted in the pattern, the amount of yarn I had is recorded in its project page on Ravelry, and even pre-chemo I still knew that 5 ≠ 8. What was I thinking? I demanded of my family. And KD knew. "You hate making sleeves. You were probably planning to start the sleeves at the yoke."

Yep. That's exactly what I would have been planning, and even though I would totally make sleeves for it now, I don't have the yarn, so cap sleeves it shall be.