HA!!!

You shall not beat me, sweater!! The original gusset idea worked, but not that well - I had a big lump under the armpit and the shaping was really funny. On my lunch hour today, I tore it out and started over. I decided to do a decrease on both sides of the front (in the "extra" 14 rows of white) and when I got rid of all of the stitches, I started the colorwork on the bottom of the sleeve. Here's a rather marginal picture of my fix:

The darker color is peeking through rather badly where I had to trap it on the way around, but I should be able to make that look better when it's blocked. :-) The cool thing is - the triangle is falling right on the bust line, so it looks like it's part of the shaping!

And I believe it's official - there's no way I'm going to be able to finish this in time. Maybe a few days late, but definitely not in time. There are less than 3 days, 2 sleeves and a neckline to do, and I have my knitting class tomorrow night. Ah, well...