Getting Gauge

I have ripped the sleeve back to the colourwork a couple of times - experimenting with a couple of needle sizes. I finally decided on 3.5mm for the cuff and 4.5mm for the stocking stitch/rest of the sweater.

The sleeve increases are every 6 rounds so I place a marker on round 1 to remind myself that I need to increase a stitch after the first and before the last stitch of this round. The ones that you can't see are actually inside the sleeve. I'm leaving them in so it will be easy to count stitches (2 more for every marker) until I reach the maximum needed then will knit straight until I get to the correct sleeve length.

I did use the rolled and ribbed cuff. The stocking stitch goes pretty quickly after that.