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[viktorcello]

I'll have to take a picture and post it, but I made the baby pea pod sweater recently. It was my first try at a real sweater/cardigan and it turned out WAY bigger than I meant it to. No, I didn't check gague. I hate the idea of wasting time doing that, and figured that any size would eventually fit a baby. I DO know that if I want to make

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[emmacrew]

Yeah, it doesn't have to be round vs. flat. If you have one piece that gets its width depending on stitch gauge (your sleeve) that has to be connected to a piece that gets its length depending on something else (I forget if this pattern has a "work until piece measures X inches" or specifies a number of rows to work), if the proportions don't match, then it won't sew up well.

If you'd like to salvage the project, you could take the sleeves out again and change the depth of the armhole (or measure the armhole, compare that to the original, and knit the sleeves with a different gauge). It will involve some measuring and math, though.

And an admission: for baby things, I almost always start with a sleeve and measure it when I get about 5 inches in instead of doing a swatch -- if it's a yarn I'm familiar with that I know doesn't change gauge too much when washed. But for anything with shaping, you do have to do the measuring, and either compensate for a different gauge or re-knit to get the stated gauge. The only time you can get away without doing that is if it's a straight-across cast off on the sleeve and a completely square body.