Using 3.5 because my 3mm circular didn’t have a long enough cord.

2/7 - 61 sts across (getting faster but knitting is still far slower than crochet)

2/11 - 71 sts
2/12 75 sts
2/13 89 sts
2/15 93 sts
2/17 99 sts
3/10 135 sts
3/20 155 sts (omg so SLOW NOW)
3/27 - 171 sts (around row 164 had to frog back a few rows because of dropped stitches)
3/31 177
4/2 183 (chickened out here because I didn’t want to run out of yarn while doing the edging!)