Bugaboo

With the cool snap this week (daytime high of 70! YAY!), I've gone back to working on my March Basic Cardi so that I have something snuggly to wear out until it gets cold enough for my only coat (which is a calf-length wool trench coat), and so that I've have something to keep me toasty in class (since our university's idea of maintenance cycles is that the AC is broken all summer but fixed in time for winter when the heater breaks which is fixed in time for summer when the AC breaks, rinse, repeat). SO.... here's where things get icky...

The directions read:

Shape Armholes: Bind off 5(5-6-7-9-9) sts at beg of the next 2 rows – 73(79-87-95-101-111) sts.

Dec Row (RS): K2, KSP, k to last 4 sts, SSK, k2 – 71(77-85-93-99-109) sts. Rep this dec every RS row 8(8-10-11-12-14) times more. Work even on 55(61-65-71-75-81) sts until armholes measure 7(7-7 1/2-8-8 1/2-9)”, end on WS.

We're good right up until "until armholes measure". By armholes, I'm thinking they mean where my finger is, the row that was bound off when the armhole shaping began. The my paranoia creeps up and asks if they mean where my lifeline is, the row after the decreases are complete. I'm pretty much certain it should be from where my finger is, since when I hold it up to me seven inches above the lifeline would put the bottom of the armhole near the bottom of my ribcage and this is meant to be a more fitted garment. (See pattern and photos)

I guess I'll just put it to the side for little bit until I feel comfortable taking it one way or the other. It's not as if I don't have a pair of socks, a pair of gloves, hubby's geometric scarf, a teddy bear, an Irish Hiking Scarf, and all my holiday knitting to finish anyway. =P