Tiarasaurus Knits (and gardens)

My quantitative side got the better of me, and I whipped out my calculator to see how many stitches were involved in this sweater. I'm making the medium size. The cross-back portion is 60 stitches per row, 6 rows per inch, and 21.5 inches long. 6 * 21.5 * 60 = 7,740. Each sleeve is supposed to be 20 inches from the join. I'm not planning to do the increases below the elbow, so I'll assume that they stay constant at 60 stitches per row. So sleeves are 2 * 60 * 6 * 20 = 14,400. The body will be 184 stitches around and 18.5 inches long, so that's another 184 * 6 * 18.5 = 20,424. Grand total: 42,564 stitches in a hypothetical Tubey!

At 8.5 inches of the back, I'm around 3,060 stitches, or 7% done. I'm flying to the East Coast for a business meeting this week, so hopefully I'll get a lot of knitting done on the plane.