All The Vest Pieces
It's always amazing to me that this:
Before blocking...
Can become this:
After blocking
with a few pins and some water.
That's the last of the major pieces. And not a moment too soon! I think I did more frogging on this garment than almost anything else I have done up to this point. Probably that has something to do with working on it when I was too tired to pay proper attention to it.
Unfortunately, for this project, blocking is only about 3/4 of the way finished. I still have to join the shoulders, extend the cables around the back of the neckline, attach the extended cables to the back of the neck, pick up and knit >140 stitches on each front side and neck for the button bands, pick up and knit >100 sitches on each armhole for the armhold edging, seam up the sides and attach the buttons. It's hard for me to get too excited about picking up any number of stitches, let alone over 480, and I haven't gotten any buttons yet, so this project will probably progress gradually to the finish over this week
All blocked up and ready to sew!
Still not exactly sure what kind of buttons I will be topping this one off with. I'm thinking pewter buttons with some kind of knotwork pattern. Hmmm.
Looks good. I forgot about all that finishing work. Good luck with it. And you button choice sounds perfect.
Hi, Theresa--that website I mentioned at the KIP, www.arnhild.com, has pewter buttons with knotwork, which would be superb on that vest!
It looks so pretty all blocked out like that. Can't wait to see it finished!
Beautiful! Isn't it amazing what blocking will do? The vest is looking wonderful, and I look forward to seeing it finished!
What a beautiful pattern! It didn't strike me as something I wanted to make when I saw the magazine, but now I may have to find some appropriate yarn and knit one for myself!
I love blocking. I get immense pleasure pinning things down, making them shape the way I want them to shape, watching the stitches even out and become uniform. And blocking also feels like getting to the last lap in a long race. I don't really love finishing, mostly because it is requires a lot more attention to detail than the body of knitting usually does.