Yep, I took it off to try on. And by try on, I mean "prove the pattern isn't wrong". It feels like so many stitches when it's on the needles and looks like it ought to be big enough. Ah well, at least I can now rest assured the neck hole is the right size. The pattern says to "measure snugly around your neck", and I'm sorry but I just don't do tight neck holes. So I measured where I wanted the neck line to be, and I'm glad to see it's working out.
Did I ever mention the pattern I'm using? It's the
Incredible Custom-Fit Raglan, (rav link
here) which has been done successfully loads of times, so I really shouldn't be doubting it. But I'm impatient and every round just keeps getting bigger!
I will say that I'm very happy with my increase lines. I'm doing mirrored "lifted increases", though to be fair I don't bother with the lift part and just shove my needle into the middle of the stitch, and I love how when you look at it the other way it looks like decreases. Actually, it kinda looks like a triple decrease, which is awesome because I almost never have use for those.
Of course, after taking all the stitches off onto waste yarn I now have to feed them all back onto the needle...
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