I was so excited for frill that I twisted the round that I picked up around the neck.  I always tell customers at Purl to be careful when joining rounds; seems I need to take my own advice more often.  Also, the straps stretched and became too long.  

I discovered both of these  issues at the same time and ripped out days worth of work to get back to the place where I could fix the straps.  It was a little painful,  but I'm very glad I did it. 

To start again, I decided to pick up  stitches around the armholes and work the crochet round on a smaller scale, so I could get accustomed to the pattern.  That way, if I made  more mistakes, there wouldn't be so much to rip out. Along the way,  I changed up the pattern by taking out some rounds that were made for a ribbon to be threaded, which I'm not going to do.

I have one sleeve done and I'm really happy with the way the dress looks with just frilliness around the sleeves.  There is a nice balance between simplicity and decoration and I don't want to interrupt it by overdoing the crochet.  I'm almost done!