I am a quite tall person and due to that fact, this design seemed to be a bit short for my body. Lately I have knitted mostly top-down sweaters and so I forgot to add some additional cm/inches already during knitting process to the lenght of the body-piece…That´s why I shortened the sleeves either and added some addtional lenght to the back afterwards (using the same method as with the sleeves - vikkel braid). During the wet-blocking I did my best to strech this garment to the lenght as much I could :) and it did strech only a bit!!! But now I am already used with these short sleeves and longer back version and won´t change them any more :)