One step forward, two steps back

I was knitting along the front of the Lace Hem Topping (are you as tired of hearing about this as I am writing about it???) and discovered about 20 rows ago that I had a weird stitch.  Right along the front  k2tog edge on the v-neck.  There was nothing I could do to camouflage it so I had to frog it.  Yes, dear friends, the dreaded four-letter word that starts with an “f”.

As of now, both the front and back are finished to the shoulder shaping.  I didn’t want to do the stair-step bind off as called for in the pattern but couldn’t figure out how to do short row shaping and the 3-needle bind off.  Just too tired last night.

Or should I forgo the shoulder shaping and just do a 3-needle bind off on a straight seam?

And last, but not least, the local weather report has us only getting to around 90 degrees today.  A far cry from the near-100 degrees and 105 degree heat index we had over the weekend but a bit warmer than the mid-80’s we had on Monday and Tuesday.