After a false start, Fife is finally rolling along. This pattern is from "Fisherman's Sweaters" by Alice Starmore with each of the diamond panels modified to be 8 stitches wider, adding 48 stitches overall, which should block out to a finished underarm measurement of 42-43". This is the same yarn that I used for Cape Cod so I used that sweater to determine gauge.
The pattern calls for the yarn to be cast on doubled. I did this originally, and completed the ribbing before deciding that I really didn't like it. I frogged it and started again with a long tail cast on. The ribbing is done on 2.25 needles with 308 stitches cast on. Row gauge is 11 rows per inch so 2 1/2" of ribbing is 28 rows, which means I had to rip out 8932 stitches if you count the cast on as a row, which got me wondering how many stitches there would be in the entire sweater so I've decided to keep track.
cast on 308 stitches + 28 rows: 8932
increase row: 336
40 rows of 336 stitches: 13440
total stitch count to date: 22708
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