Several years ago my sister in law gave me this pretty sweater covered in lace. Technically it wasn’t supposed to go in the wash and was dry clean only, but usually I have no problem throwing sweaters in the wash and then line drying them. Well I must have accidentally stuck this one in the wash on hot because the entire sweater shrunk. It looks like a child sweater now. So I saved the thing thinking it could do something with it. 
Well I finally did something! I saw this shirt on pinterest and knew it was what I wanted to do with the sleeves. I used this pattern from Burdastyle: Pullover 11/2012 #128 which I got for free from their advent calendar give-away! I started making the shirt for Valentine’s Day but became disgruntled with the pattern. Yesterday I finally decided that it was supposed to be a bit baggy because it was a sweatshirt and just finished it after setting in the sleeves for the third time.
Here’s some tips about what I did and modified. First – be sure you use a stretch stitch on your sewing machine and a ballpoint needle for knit fabrics.
When I came to the instructions of creating the sleeves, I forewent that construction and instead removed the sleeves from my old sweater. This took a while because it is very tricky to stitch rip delicate lace.
Then I set in the sleeves, several times. The pattern had a much longer shoulder seam than required, so I recommend marking that off before setting in your sleeves, and be sure to BASTE your sleeves before you stitch them.
At this point I also toyed around with taking in the side seams more because it really is a bit baggy, but eventually decided against it. I will probably take it in at some point later. Also the length was way too long so I took about 3 inches off the bottom hem or it would have been a dress. Here’s what the final product looks likes right now:
Even after taking the shoulder seams up quite a bit, they are still not quite how I wanted them, but if you look at a sweatshirt, that is where they are. Eh, I’d give it an 85%.
