Duh, I was wondering how I could not have enough yarn from an XL women's sweater coat to make a men's medium sweater, I just found the yarn from the back of said sweater coat buried under a bunch of project bags.  I will be looking for sweater patterns that I can use to adapt the sleeves to fit the vest that I am knitting for my husband so that I can make him the sweater that he would really rather have.  I figure instead of doing the trim on the arm hole openings I can just make. sleeves with the same pattern and put them in instead.  I should be able to do that with not to much trouble since I had to do that with the Teddy Bear sweater that I made for Dylan.