Sleeve Saga

I did a lot of calculations (aka MATH) in an effort to make the first sleeve decreases make some kind of sense.  Turns out, I hate math so much, I will only repeat my own personal word problem four times before giving up if the answer confuses me.

Giving up = frogging the sleeve and reknitting.  Yep.

Since I apparently can't do complex things like ADD and SUBTRACT, I made a handy-dandy chart to keep track of the row in the 12-row eyelet pattern, the difference in the number of stitches for each row, and the total number of stitches when the row is complete, i.e.:

ROW    DIFF    STITCHES
cast on 27 sts with long-tail CO
knit                     27
knit                     27
k*(yo,k2tog)rep 27
knit                     27
kfb all                 54
1           0             54
2           0             54
3           0             54
4           0             54
5           0             54
6           0             54
7          -3            51
8          -3            48
9          -2            46
10        -2            44
11        -2            42
12        -2            40
1          -2            38
2          -2            36
3          -2            34
4          -2            32
5          -2            30
6          -2            28
7          -2            26
8          -2            24
9          -2            22
10        -2            20
11        -2            18
12        -2            16
k2tog across      8
bind off purlwise

Inevitably, I discover my arithmetic mistake while redoing an early row (8, -3, 48) and silently curse the day I ever started knitting.