Every knitting project has a "hump," a point from which you can see the finish and the going gets easier.
She says to knit 14 inches from start of knitting to beginning of arm gussets, so I stop and measure my progress every couple of hours. I know it silly, but I can not help myself. I get into a new section of pattern, and everything curls and puckers a little more. Then, as I lay it out on my knee, I have less then I had before. (With apologies to Tim Finnegan, James Joyce, and the musical, magical fruit:)
The less I got, The more I knit. The more I knit, The more it curls. The more it curls, The less I got. . . .
Not sure how many humps this thing is going to have.
Aaron