Blocking

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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.

Procrastination?

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I finished knitting the body of Vine Vest on Sunday.

I’m stuck with the finishing or to be more accurate, the seaming. 

The instructions say to pick up stitches along the front and neck and knit for four inches, then do the ribbing along the armholes.  I don’t know if I’ll have enough yarn so my original plan was to sew the side seams and do the ribbing around the armholes first.

I found another mistake.  And I’m not going to fix it.

I think I will block this while it’s still flat before I do the seaming and the rest of the ribbing.

I’ve convinced myself that the seaming will go much better once it’s been blocked and the edges lie flat.  Truth or procrastination?

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.