A summer of knitting.

Let's see if I remember how to do this.  As all good things do, Grandma's summer full of short visits from little people and other general goofing off is done.  The kids are back in school and Grandma is back at her keyboard.  Grandma only because that is such a big part of my life, though otherwise, I am just me, ever debating about how to live a good life along with copious amounts of knitting.

I did some great knitting while I was vacationing.  

The last you saw this garment, it was half done, sitting right about the waist.  

For the body of what is still essentially a Leisl, I changed to all stockinette.  I switched back for the coloured rows near the bottom and bound off with three ridges (6 rows) of garter stitch in my accent colour.  I did that same finish on all the openings.  

The biggest change I made to it is that it is a vest, not a full sweater. I have another batch of this yarn, (which I dearly love) in a deep olive green, and by batch I mean it is about two skeins short to make a sweater.  By holding back on sleeves from this vest, my options for the next sweater expand. I am thinking maybe an Argo?   This vest has been complete since the very early days of August, and still needs buttons though ends are worked in.  That will probably happen today in a break from putting the house to order.

The other knitting I did is really pleasing.  I started a LoveNote back in January but ended up ripping it all back because the yoke was miles too big.  The lace needs to lay flat and my first try would have had the lace ripple all around the neckline.

It still is a wee bit but it hasn't been washed and blocked yet.  I am wearing it and it is sorting itself out.  I assume that blocking will take care of the rest.  

I could have easily gone down one more size to a large for the yoke and done more increasing after.  Oh well.  

I am certain this is my body shape that leads the sweater astray, not the pattern.  The pattern was great, but it does show me, yet again that I do at least as well and often better when I just sort of wing it for sweater sizes.  

I am done with round yokes for a bit.  After wearing my Threipmuir the last few months, I realize that I am not entirely happy with its neckline, I took apart the sweater I was knitting with my beauteous Pesto colourway from Midknit Cravings because I could not sort the size and neckline, and I took apart a t shirt I was knitting with the same round neckline structure as the Pesto sweater for the same reason.  I could not figure out a size which would fit the way I wanted it too.  And it is not the fault of the designer, it is a body shape issue.  I could not find the happy medium between length of yoke and width at the underarms.  

The last of my kid visitors left Thursday last week and the house shows it.  There are toys in the livingroom and the the sewing room was dismantled and turned into a bedroom for boys.  My room got the detritous from making both rooms kid ready, and my own space is a disaster.  Oddly, the kitchen isn't too bad, just needing the floors scrubbed and the recycle to go out.  There are so many more things to talk about, and I could sit here for a month of Sundays writing but there are many days ahead and time is a wasting today.  Putting the house to order has to happen today so that I can resume sewing later this week.  It is time for flanellette shirts and snuggly nether garments.   Time to chat more tomorrow.