Sleeves - End Result

At last I have finished the sleeves. As I said in the last paragraph of my previous post I wanted to shorten the sleeves by about 20 stitches, which worked well using the method described there. The only problem was that as the sleeves were shorter the feather portions came right above my elbow and when it was finished it and I tried it on it looked silly, rather like those puffed out pantaloons the nobles wore in the Tudor age. I should have taken a photo to show you, but unfortunately I didn't think about it. The whole sleeve needed to be pulled out and I started again.

Using the 60 stitches and increasing by 4 each row had been the correct size, (I have shortish arms) so I started out with that again. The large feather I decided had to go, and I would just put 3 single lines of contrasting colour down the centre of the sleeve instead.

I achieved this by simply knitting to the wrist edge and back again in the contrasting colour where the instructions say knit a feather. Inbetween I knitted 3 double rows of main colour and also cast on/off the eight stitches for the feather tip at the wrist edge. I filled this tip with two short rows of contrasting colour either side of the main row. I was rather pleased with the end result:-

Now I need to fill in the empty chest portion on the front as I wish to use it as a coat/jacket. I need to pick up the stitches I left on the circular needle when I finished the last front side and transfer them to straight needles again.