pink thistle progress

I finished the fronts and back of the cardigan. What is the actual ratio of the amount of knitting in sleeves vs. body in a typical sweater? Now that the body is done, I have hope that this sweater may one day be completed, because the sleeve part always seems smaller to me. I wonder though if that is in fact true.

Comments

[Charlotte]

I've always heard that the sleeves comprise 1/3 of the total sweater. The back is 1/3 and the front is 1/3.

[lesley]

i think it depends on the sweater but i think a sleeve is 1/3 of a body front so 2 sleeves is 2/3 a sweater front? but they always take me forever :)