Ok, I'm finishing up the sweater I made for DS1. The neckline is done. I'm almost ready to put the arms on ... and the sleeves look waaay to small at the top. There are square inset bits at the top of the body, so the sweater looks like a sort of tank top, without the sleeves, and the sleeves, folded over, don't reach from the inset bit to the shoulder.
What do I do? Pick up stitches and do more increases so the sleeves are wider? Or is there some trick I'm missing, and the sleeves do really fit? (The instructions go on about right angles, and I don't really understand them, frankly.) The difference is maybe a centimeter.
Also, is there some trick to keep the edges of the sweater from looking like, well, crap? There are big holes all over the place. Do I just need to be extra careful with the tension there? They look particularly bad near the top, with all the decreases.