I knitted a top-down cardigan for my son who lives 700 miles away. It fit him perfectly EXCEPT (maybe due to the raglan feature?) the sleeves are about 3 inches too long. (the underarm to cuff measurement is correct, not sure what went wrong and I can’t see it on him)
Can I cut the sleeves at the cuff, run a sewing machine line over the raw edge and hand hem them? Is there a way to do this easier? more safely? HELP!
If the sleeves were knit from the top down, it’s easy to shorten them. You can open the seam if they were knit flat, unpick the last st where the yarn tail was pulled through the bind off, then unravel the sleeve for about 3" and bind off again. If the end of the sleeve has ribbing, you’ll have to account for that when you unravel and re-knit the ribbing. If the sleeve is knit in the round it’s even easier to shorten because you don’t have to undo the seam. I’ve shortened sleeves (and the bodies of sweaters) before, and it works very well.