I am about to start picking up stitches for sleeves, however my underarm doesn’t have enough equal stitches on each side to pick up, not sure where I went wrong.
Unfortunately I completed the body and hem so would rather not frog back. The sleeves instructions were last so didn’t notice the misalignment until now. Would it still be worth continuing the sleeves with German short rows? I don’t mind if the saddle is not aligned but not sure the impact it’ll have . Any advice would be appreciated!
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It doesn’t look as thought the armhole will be large enough to fit without the extra length on the left in the photo. Finishing it as is would pull the saddle to either front or back but the fit at the sleeve top is going to be the problem.
You’ve knit it beautifully but I’m sorry to say there doesn’t seem to be a recovery without taking out the body and lengthening that armhole opening. It’s painful alright but we’ve all had to do this at one time or another.
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Thank you , think I will put it in the closet and restart with a different yarn. It is too motivating frogging it back 
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Might it be possible to do some sweater surgery here?
Cutting the sweater just below the underarm and putting the entire body aside, then frog from underarm to where you have the pattern correct, at whatever point that is. Catch the sts, rework it correctly to just past the underarm, then graft the live stitches onto the body stitches.
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I suspect you simply didn’t knit enough rows on the one section. There are only about 14 rows from underarm to saddle on the left side of the picture, and there need to be more like 40 to pick up 27 stitches. Something to pay attention to as you redo this.
I know it seems hard, but it would actually be quicker to frog up to the armholes than to start over with new yarn. Or do as @Creations suggests, which would save most of your work. We’re all different in our approach to major re-dos, so whatever works best for you!
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If it’s any consolation, the mental pain stops shortly after the frogging is complete! I know from experience! 
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I may consider frogging but not now, I don’t want to look at it at the moment I had already completed the body and hem so I’ll need to mentally prepare myself for a big frog!
It’s so lovely and well done.
Depending on how much experience you have you could consider cutting, knitting and then grafting the short armhole side. It’s not for the faint of heart but it is an option as Creations suggested. You would cut above the area of the lower armhole, take out a row, knit from the upper portion down to the lower armhole for the needed length then graft the top to the lower portion.
You might try this out on a swatch first just to see if it’s worth the time and effort.
I’ve used this several times to shorten or lengthen body or sleeves. The tricky part is the graft which in you case would be right across the front or back of the sweater.