Woe or Not

I spent the day yesterday frogging and reknitting.  It could have been soul destroying but it wasn't.  I am not working on my Mashup Top.  I am working on the cotton t shirt.

I put up this picture of the start of the top yesterday, and the more I looked at it, the more I did not like it.  I started out thinking wide stripes but I did not like the way the colours looked.  They were ... wrong somehow.  Too blocky?  That is not what I wanted.  Not at all.  I ripped back to row three at the very start of the neckline.  

If wide stripes were not working then how about narrow, two row stripes?  

There.  That's better.  That's what these colours need.  I want it to say is it a white t-shirt with cream stripes or a cream t-shirt with white stripes.  That's exactly right.  

And then I had to rip back a few rows.  I intend to machine wash this top.  That means it will shrink.  I want the shoulders a bit wider to account for that.  I am also going to make it longer because the length will likely shorten a lot.  

Meanwhile I have a couple inches to do on the back and then on to fronts.  Worsted cottons knit up so nice and fast.