Dilemma : knit a specific sweater with no pattern

size 50 needles , OMG

A girl I met threw a friend is a design/textile/fashion student at NCSU. One night she mentioned a meeting she had with her knitting instructor. I told her that I knit and the conversation went from there. To try to sum it up quickly, she enrolled in Charleston's fashion week. So she has to design a collection of 12 items. Two of which, are knitted. Keep in mind she has never even knit a single stitch. She told me she would pay me to make them for her. I agreed because I desperately need the money, I love knitting and maybe this can open some doors for me. I mean, heck it will be in Charleston Fashion Week.

We met at Helio's one day and she showed meeting the yarn she had. It came from the textile department and was basically two different colored cotton from bins that they had to spin together. Its beautiful, nice, thick and chuncky just like she needed. Problem, it pulls apart so easily you can barely pull on it. Meaning it was going to be hard to knit. Another great thing is that we are using size 50 needles. So with huge needles and thick chunky yarn, it should take no time to Knit.

WRONG!!!! She has no pattern, just a drawing of a woman wearing a chunky knitted sweater. So .... how do I know what to knit. Ahhh didn't realize that she just had an "idea" and the whole structure, composure, etc would be up to me. So she drew out a typical sleeve pattern. Now I have to figure out how many stitches to cast on to make it the width she desired. And which is the best method to use for decreasing on this garment, which is knit in stockinette stitch. The wrist starts out wide and continually gets skinner all the way up to the bicep, where I then have to figure out how to make this rounded off shoulder. Ahhh help. Oops don't pull too hard or the yarns gonna break. Okay, I'm going to work on this sleeve and equations of width and decreases some more.

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