After letting the sweater sit for months, I got the urge to try and fix the armhole and neck line situation.

In this "before" photo you might notice that the front and back are just two big rectangles sewn together at the sides.  That means the arm holes are just slits ... which leads to your armpits getting stuffed with knitted fabric.  I decided to fix this.

The arrows show you where I did some armhole shaping.  Well, "shaping" might be too fancy a description ... I just bound off 7 stitches on each edge.  It looks like there's a nice slope, though, doesn't it?  That's what I love about knitting (so far): you can be a little lazy and no one will be the wiser. :)

Oh, no.  I just noticed in the photo that I forgot to drop the stitches when I bound off the straps.  It's funny how often I discover my crafting mistakes in my blog post photos.

Here you can see the back.  I've got about 20 more rows to do before it's finished.  

It was a little tricky getting the sweater back on the needles even though I'd already dropped some of the stitches.  What I did was fix the runs with a crochet hook up for about 10 stitches.  Then I wove my knitting needle under a row of stitches (as described in the Stitch & Bitch book), and then frogged the top down to my needle.  

Since I fixed the runs (as opposed to just ignoring them), I can re-drop the stitch at the neckline and it will run down to where I picked the stitch back up.

Once I get everything looking good up top, I'm going to try to fix the *bigness* of the midsection.  You guys gave me a bunch of great ideas.  I think I can make this "wearable" eventually!