I have already knitted this sweater. All it needs is to be sewn together.
http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=217
I put one of the sleeves in, and sewed it up one side. Tried it on, and there’s too much stuff under the arm. I figured out what the problem was, and I don’t think there’s any fix for it. You can see kind of a capped sleeve. The problem is, there is no cap on the one I made. The top, where the shoulder is, is only 3 inches between where the armhole is, and where the hood is. So, now the armhole opening of my sweater is a huge 9 inches from the shoulder down to the body, where I started to shape for the armhole. Since there were lots more rows in the body than there were for stitches across the top of the sleeve, it ended up bunched up and ugly, even though I did the division for the rows/stitches. I’m totally at a loss. This was supposed to be a Christmas gift for my daughter, and I’m so mad I could scream. Thanks in advance.
I had this problem. What I figured out is that I had to use 3/4 ratio in order to seam my dd’s sweater. For every 4 stitches of the shoulder bind off, I had to seam 3 stitches of the sleeve castoff edge like this:
1 shoulder to 1 sleeve
1 shoulder to 1 sleeve
2 shoulder to 1 sleeve (kind of like k2tg–I place the darning needle through 2 stiches of the shoulder bindoff edge & into only 1 stitch on the sleeve.)
ETA: so, count how many stitches you have on the bindoff edges of your armhole opening and the sleeve. Find the ratio between the two, for example you may have twice as many shoulder stitches as sleeve or a 2/1 ratio. So, you would seam 2 shoulder stitches for every 1 sleeve stitch.