So bene dove ho sbagliato....
So I got the body of this sweater re-knitted; it's now longer (in the year-and-a-half since I started it, I've gotten to like the elongated silhouette that now seems to be in fashion), and has a wider edging at the bottom (above photo). I took out the twisted stitches that were supposed to shape the waist but in fact did nothing, and I planned to make the sleeves a bit elongated too.
I knew making everything longer would mean using every bit of yarn I had, so I reclaimed most of my swatches and ended up with a gaggle of tiny gomitoli (below)-- an ugly sight for someone who hates to work in ends, but hopefully I'll have enough yarn to finish.
I finished one sleeve and started on the second, but when I got to the bottom edging, I realized it was angling in the opposite direction compared to the first sleeve. I didn't see how this could be possible: since this pullover is worked in the round from the neck down, the stitch pattern begins at the exact same point for both sleeves, and thus should end at the same point. It took me several go-overs to find the mistake, and of course, once I did, I couldn't believe I had missed it: when I unraveled the bottom edge of the first sleeve and started 
knitting again, I repeated the same 8 pattern rows twice-- you can tell because the eyelets inside the cable don't switch from left to right.
Then I noticed another error-- I had added an extra row of eyelets, or two extra rows, to each cable section. Oops! And I suddenly realized why I did this. For the edging, I just kept knitting until it looked wide enough, and it turned out to be 16 rows long, which I noted was the same as one repeat of the main stitch pattern, which includes two cable crosses. Then when I started to lengthen the sleeves, I was thinking "8 rows between cable crossings, or 4 eyelet rows," and I forgot that the cable cross itself takes two of the stitch pattern rows, meaning that each cable section should have only 3 rows of eyelets. RRRIPPP!!
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