Last evening was beautiful.  We had the windows open to let in some spring air.  As I was sitting at my computer checking my email, a smell came wafting through the window.  It was a combination of freshly cut grass (a nice smell) and, um, droppings (not a nice smell).  I don’t know if my neighbor disturbed something as he was cutting his weeds or if a hippopotamus walked by and left a package for us.

The nearest hippopotamus is at least 142 miles from here so I’m guessing that it wasn’t a hippopotamus.

In knitting news: I seamed one side of the Vine Vest.  The other side seam has me in a quandary.  Two reversed stockinette ribbed edges have to be seamed together.  And I need to make the seam invisible.  I was too tired to figure out how to do that so I went to bed.  Maybe I’ll be able to tackle that tonight.

I did try on the sweater and I’m liking it very much.  Pictures later.

The Vine Vest is being blocked.  Just waiting for it to be completely dry before I sew the side seams ans do the ribbing around the armholes and fronts.

So in the meantime I started working on Fetching.  This was a quick knit.  I started them on Monday and finished the left hand last night and started on the right hand. 

Fetching

I’m using Knit Picks Andean Silk in cream and though the pattern calls for 98 yards with little or none left over, the ball I have is only 96 yarns.  Then I remembered that I had some of this same yarn left over from the Ms Ida Chain Link Mittens so I should have enough.

I did the picot bind off and I don’t like how the mitt flares at the finger end so when I finish the right mitt, I will undo the edge on the left one and just bind off normally.  I could have saved myself the extra work if I had just read the comments for these on Ravelry.  It’s not that big of a deal, only 45 stitches.

If I have enough yarn, I might do one more cable section.  If.