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Swatches are done - gauge is measured - I'm all ready to go. Now comes the number crunching phase! How many patterns can I fit into the space while centering my big motive and keeping a nice proportion of pattern to flea stitch? If I take out that pattern and shift the whole thing up ten rows, would the pattern look better? It goes on. But I'm about to commit to this pattern and I want it to look snappy when it's done!

I've knit the bit that folds under the bottom and knit the fold stitch row, so the very next stitch I knit will be part of the front of the sweater. Here we gooooo!