So do you like my new theme?  The new header is a closeup of the Dots and Stripes purse pattern.  My eyes gravitate to the uneven stitch.  I need to fix that.

Random post here today.

I seamed the sides of the Vine Vest..  The pattern says I should pick up 64 stitches.  The first time (yes, I had to do this more than once) I picked up 50 stitches and did the ribbing.  I don’t know how I was expected to find 64 stitches.  Needless to say, it was too tight.  I pulled out a few stitches on the side seam and picked up 56 stitches.  This worked better.  I don’t like armholes that are too tight (no one does) but I also don’t like then too loose.  My undergarments need to stay under.

I was looking at the Lace Hem Topping I made last summer and the vine stitch I used on that top is the same stitch used on the Vine Vest.   Both are similar in color thought the Lace Hem is a dusty purple and the Vine vest is a bluer purple.  Side-by-side they look different.

The Fetching mitts are in a timeout.  Both are finished and I don’t like how the end flares out.  I may rip out the ends and do a 1×1 rib for the last row or rip them out completely and try another pattern.  I totally messed up the cabling on the right one and didn’t catch it until I was finished.  The more I think about it, the more I am convinced they will become something else.

Posts without pictures are boring and somethings I just skip them.  I have pictures to show you but they are still on my camera.  Sigh.

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.