Monthly Archives: April 2011

Vexatious Vine

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The Four Seasons Vine Lace Vest is not distraction friendly.  I need total silence.

I’ve ripped out and reknit parts of this many, many times.  After separating at the shoulder area, I seem to have forgotten how to count.  I either have too few stitches or too many stitches.

I am so looking forward to finishing this but am almost to the point of ripping it out and making something else out of this yarn.

Plus I discovered a mistake about eight inches back.  Will anyone else be able to see it?  I don’t know. 

And right now I don’t care.

I might be able to fix it but I’m not going to worry about it.  Yet.

Vine Vest

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Last summer I bought some Knit Picks Shine Worsted yarn in Bachelor Button, a color now discontinued, for a sleeveless top.  As usual I changed my mind about the pattern but wanted to find something else.

Enter Classic Elite Four Seasons Vine Lace Vest.

Four Seasons Vine Lace Vest

I started this on Saturday and haven’t made much progress since then.  This is knit in one piece – my favorite kind of knitting.  The size I’m making calls for 515 yards of yarn.   

I have 525 yards.

My plan is to do the finishing around the armholes first then knit the ribbing around the front and neck until I run out of yarn.

Knitted nests

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I suspect the birds are knitting a nest in the rain spout above my window at work.  I see them  flying in there with long pieces of straw and grass.  They must be rebuilding as we had torrential downpours over the weekend and a pile of nest making materials was on the ground below the rain spout when I came in yesterday morning.

Nest above my window

YOu can see in teh above picture that it’s raining here again today.  I wonder if their work will be washed away again.

A couple of weeks ago I scattered small bits of yarn (less than an inch long) in the wooded area behind our house for the birds to use in their nests.  I noticed most of it was gone when I walked around our yard last evening.

Monday Mish-Mash

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Short on time this morning but I have a few “purls” of wisdom:

  1. If you buy a GPS, buy a good one.
  2. Don’t hog the left lane when driving.
  3. Separation anxiety sucks.  Reassure your kids that it’s ok for them to get on the school bus so they don’t cause a scene and hold up traffic for a full five minutes.
  4. Drinking 32 ounces of anything in a short period of time will make you sick.
  5. Tell those you love that you love them.  Often.
  6. Thank God for your blessings as well as your challenges.
  7. Sometimes you can find a pattern for the amount of yarn you have.