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Thank you so much for your insight! I know first hand of the difficulties - I have already frogged this sweater once :/
Considering what you wrote, I'm thinking of unravelling a couple of centimetres of the sleeves, based only on a wild guess. If after the wash I want back the lost length, I'll only have to unravel the i-cord. Or even skip the i-cord, wash it holding the sleeves on a lifeline and finish it afterwards. This way, I wouldn't need to unravel anything after wash. Would that work?
(Making and blocking a swatch would definitely be the adult thing to do, but I'm really not keen on the prospect of looking for more yarn...)
@weirdsquid
Washing with live sts is definitely a good idea. If you have to continue, you can just start again and if you have to unravel there's at least no bind off to unpick. I'm generally using metal needles, which I just leave in, if I have to wash before something is finished.
And on the swatch - I feel you, I like to live dangerously myself ...
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