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Vest-uary

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Smart name from Raverlry last year right about this time.

What better way to deal with the mid-winter doldrums than to knit a nice vest?

Rather than something complicated, fine yarn and fiddly, I decided to choose an easy, fast pattern. In fact, Drops #115-24, a cabled top looked to be right about my speed.

Purchased a few years ago, I have this bag of Shakespeare by Artful Yarns, 100% wool in a lovely combination of blues and purples

Shakespeare by Arttful yarns

Color #5

Casting on 95 stitches (yes, that is around. Total number that 95!) on size 8.00 needles to set up the pattern before moving up to 9.00 needles with two strands held together

pattern set up

cables plus ribbing

it has not taken long to get three balls (135 yards each worked from inside and outside) into the project.

almost 12 inches knit

not quite to the underarm, but close.

I am rather pleased to think that I will shortly have a nice warm vest.

I did look through other’s projects: Nicole knit a lovely version without sleeves, as did Katharaina. Then there is Donna’s (which is located here on her old blog) which I hope she ports everything over from Blogspot as she has such a nice collection of pictures and finished things.

There were another three or so finished vests, but none of the rest have projects that seem to be posted outside of Ravelry.

Audio Books

The Mercedes Coffin – Faye Kellerman. A Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus mystery, this was one of several downloaded from iTunes a few months back when they had books on sale ($6.95 seemed like a really good deal).

I read it (library book( when first released in hardback) and enjoyed it then. It is holding up well on listening, the reader is a pretty gruff sounding guy which seems to suit the story well.

on other fronts

By the simple expedient of heading into London, the Mole managed to avoid returning to school this afternoon.

On return, we had a serious conversation about what comes next. He is a good kid, knows that the budget is not unlimited (school year prepaid) and that transferring schools – except to mean mom’s – is not likely.

No one really lost their temper and we will talk on the way to Croughton in the morning.

Two more complete

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In spite of not getting started as early as I planned (isn’t being on line and cruising around Ravelry good for burning up lots of time?), I managed the following:

Pyramide

sides sewn together

sides sewn together

followed by

neck edging started

neck edging started

which meant that sweater, hanger, camera and I headed outside.

Finished - front

Finished - front

Finished - the back

Finished - the back

(slight detour involving teenage son, a meal, and a ride to the train station so that he could catch the 1614 instead of a later train back to school).

moving on to the

Textured Sleeveless Vest

I managed to figure out an alternative way of constructing the next and binding off the shoulders together that did not involve more than two rows of frogging.

shoulders bound off

shoulders bound off

Since it looked like it was going to take longer to knit the collar than the armholes – I went there next, increasing needle sizes about every inch plus increasing a few stitches in the back of the collar.

start of collar

start of collar

This particular color has never photo’d well, and it is worse at night.
Finally, I used a much smaller needle for the armhole ribbing and was done.

Finished

Finished

Being as how it was only 2100, I moved on to

Faery Ring

and finally got past the cuff on the first sleeve

progress on first sleeve

progress on first sleeve

If I can finish the first sleeve tomorrow, then I will let myself start Brage on the 15th.

I am off to update my Ravelry Project page since I finally have progress to show and only two (Pagode and Faery Ring) left as WIP.

At day’s end

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I had been to Reading and back to join a knit meet up (lunch at Wagamamas and a wander through John Lewis), with a chance to see this wonderful reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry made in 1885 by 35 Victoria embroiderers. That they were ladies goes without saying).  Ok, for those who are not history buffs – 1066 and the Norman Invasion? Battle of Hastings? William the Conqueror?

UFOs

Confirming my conclusion that I loved the pattern but did not like the colors (have already picked out new) – Stillwater

30 cm or so

30 cm or so

became this

two nice balls of Kauni

two nice balls of Kauni

Pyramide

Arriving back home – I was here

12 cm to go

12 cm to go

and ended here

lacking only the finishing

lacking only the finishing

I always underestimate the amount of time it takes me to knit miles and miles of garter on 3.00 mm needles.

Sleeveless KAL

ready to start shoulder and neck shaping

ready to start shoulder and neck shaping

Since I got to here without bothering to read the directions, I need to rip back 5 cm or modify the neck a bit. Well, duh, modification it is. Armhole as written was a bit shallow for my taste.

Audio

There are those times where I stop listening to audio books part way through. Sometimes it is boredom, sometimes I am just not in the mood and others? Perhaps it is a mismatch of reader and material that is too annoying. The following three fell into none of those categories – I had just misplaced CDs or files.

Decided to finish listening to several partly heard books since I am in a finish things up mood. Retrieval Artist – Kristine Kathryn Rusch which is the novella that started her series. Second Sight and Sizzle and Burn (Jayne Ann Krentzs Arcane Society Series written under Amanda Quick for the historical novels)

Moving on – Starship: Pirate – Mike Resnick, the second book in his Wilson Cole Series has now only an hour to play. After that, I think I am up for a bit of non-fiction before moving back to Mercedes Lackey’s Phoenix books (which just seemed to drag on and on in the middle).