Tahki Cotton Classic in Dark Red and Degrade in Orange.

While I’m involved in a search and rescue mission to find my circular needles to finish the ribbing around the Vine Vest, I decided to get ready for a small take-along project.  A splash of yellow or purple may also be involved depending on what intensity the orange is when I get to that part.

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.