Math for Bust Increases

I've completed the increases, and worked an additional 2 inches as established for the waist area. I hit a stopping point when I needed to do the math to figure out the bust increases, and decided to take a break for a couple days. After all, I can only nonstop knit for so long before my elbows give out and take me out of commission for much longer than I would like.

After my couple days of recooperation, I determined I need to increase 1 stitch on each side of the side panels (4 stitches) every 6th row, 7 times.  After that, the major decision on how I'm going to work my sleeves must be decided. 

Raglan or inset? Durrow cable, or Celtic Knot cable? (I've pretty much decided on the Raglan/Durrow combo)

Luckily, due to my running out of yarn before I could get my next set of reinforcements, It'll most likely be until Christmas before I get a chance to continue the bust increases, let alone work on sleeves. 

Speaking of Christmas, if anyone is asking what I want, send them directly to the Stitcher's Haven link on the right of this blog. If you call them, they will add the money to a gift card that I can spend in the store to my little heart's content. At this point, that would be to finish this project!

As a side not, I've decided that on the official pattern, I won't be adding the P1 on each side of the side panels. I'll go straight from seed stitch to k2. It hides the shaping increases/decreases better. 

I've also decided that I hate the two additional rows I added between the celtic knots. I thought it might look cool to have those knots look more like a rope with knots as opposed to just another cabled panel. Sadly, I was wrong. It just points out that I didn't reverse those panels. In the final version, the pattern will not have extra rows, will be reversed, and will probably include a simple 6-stitch braid down the center of the back instead of the celtic knot to keep it as symmetrical as possible. 

You live, you learn, but the question always remains: to frog or not to frog. In this case, I'm far enough along to think of these issues more as ways mine will always be unique as opposed to flaws that need fixing. (That's Jen speak for "I don't wanna start over AGAIN!")