so close and yet so far

This is the start of a sleeve for my new sweater. I'm so excited to finally be starting it, which I did (start it, I mean) an obscene number of times yesterday. Apparently my gauge is way off because I keep changing needle sizes and still haven't reached the goal. So today I will go down 2 more needle sizes and start again. Darn good thing I'm totally ga-ga about the Philosopher's Wool patterns because otherwise I would've probably abandoned this project by now. But today we have a sheetrocked hall and will be kidless for the afternoon, so I'm going to start again, with optimism and determination.