Nothin' But a Shapely Tee Update
Somehow I've made the knitting of a completely simple all-stockinette garment into quite a production. I can't seem to get past the underarm bind-offs. First, I worked through all the armhole shaping on the back and decided I didn't like the way I had done the decreases. I had slanted the decreases against the slant of the edge of the piece instead of with it. In other words, the right-slanting decreases were at the right edge of the fabric (where it slants in to the left) and the left-slant decreases were on the left side. Normally that is the way I prefer it. However, in this case with decreases first done on both right and wrong side rows then on right side rows only, it looked odd to me. So I ripped back and worked all the armhole shaping for the back again. I like this better, and I will do the same thing on the sleeve decreases which will end up across the seam from these.
Next I discovered that I had accidentally split for the back and front a couple stitches off so that the back had a couple stitches too few and the front had a couple stitches too many. I debated just fudging this and going on, but decided I would go back and correct it. My running-in-place progress and the fact that I haven't actually been knitting much has made this project go on much much longer than expected.
I also wanted to mention that I did something different back on the short-row shaping for the bust. I was reading Montse Stanley's instructions in Knitter's Handbook, and she mentions that you can optionally slip the first stitch after the wrap and turn. I thought that sounded like a good idea because then the first column of stitches inside the wrapped stitch is only one row higher instead of immediately jumping up two rows higher. I tried it, and I do think it looks a little smoother this way.
Hopefully, third time's the charm, and I will actually make it past the armhole shaping on this try.