The Problem

The back is really big. In attempting to resize, I've made a mess of things. By decreasing the circumference of the sleeve, I arrived at the armpit very quickly, thus increasing the width of the back. If you've not made the Elizabeth Zimmermann Baby Surprise Jacket before, this probably makes no sense. Even if you have, it might not! The Surprise is that you knit the jacket all in one piece, magically fold it, seam just the tops of the sleeves, and viola--a jacket! So you're working on several parts of the jacket all at once, making it difficult to resize by just changing the numbers. You're better off using the numbers given, but switching to a thinner or thicker yarn to change the size.

What's interesting is that the wrist-to-wrist measurement is correct, the front left and right panels are pretty much correct; it's just the back measurement from armpit to armpit that is incorrect.

After a night of rumination, I did actually come up with a solution. You can't wait to see, right? Tomorrow.