Knitting wars

[msconduct]

susandennis, an ace knitter who knits patterns that terrify me, mentioned that the size of something she's knitted had come out wrong. What a relief! I feel fractionally less stupid, but still plenty stupid, to be honest. I've fairly recently started knitting again after a very long gap and I was only really a novice before anyway. I knitted a cardigan which fit fine and a one-size capey thing. Now I'm knitting a jumper [US sweater] rated "easy", and OMG. So far:

1. Knitted back.
2. Knitted sleeves. (This would not normally be next but they are exciting bell sleeves and I was dying to see what they looked like.)
3. Knitted half the front.
4. Allowed creeping thought to come to the surface that this really wasn't going to be the right size as the pattern didn't specify the size I wanted and I had stuck my head in the sand and made the nearest size instead.
5. Made up the size I wanted via extrapolation. (My mother is alarmed by my devil-may-care messing around with patterns, but I'm fine with it as I'm too ignorant to know what I'm getting into.)
6. Unravelled the back and reknitted it in the new size.
7. Decided the size sleeves I already had would be fine.
8. Unravelled the front and reknitted it.
9. Went to join the shoulder seam to knit the collar. Noticed that the length seemed way off what I was expecting. Measured length. It was way off what I was expecting. (I am hopeless at measuring knitting. Every time I try it's different.)
10. Unravelled front to armhole shaping. Currently knitting more length. Will also have to unravel back to armhole and knit more of that too.
11. Allowed creeping thought to come to the surface that I may not be able to fit the differently sized sleeves to the new sized front and back and will probably have to extrapolate a new size for them and reknit them as well.

Sigh. Oh well, the wool's expensive and I'm certainly getting the entertainment value out of it.

[Edited as I can't count to 11. And to think I'm responsible for the company accounts.]