It's a vest sort of day.
It isn't cold enough that I need to snuggle down in my sweater, drink hot cocoa and layer myself in blankets but cold enough that I want to wear a heavier wooly fabric on my back. My arms are okay free of warm wooly layers. I am of course wearing a long sleeve turtlenecks as an underlayer. It's a cotton bamboo fabric so it is only marginally warm but it does the job.
I have a few vests now and enjoy wearing them but it is one thing I could use more of in my wardrobe. My favourite is my Linger vest, where it became a vest only because my hands were very done with the weight of the yarns. It is so wonderfully warm though and I adore the fisherman's rib. It take a long time to knit but it's a great fabric.
The other vest getting heavy wear is the rust vest which I knit so I could understand the European shoulder construction. I like the shape of it on me. The back neck stays high on my back neck and fits comfortably across my back. I also needed to knit it so I could understand my problems with the Ysolda Teague's Anyday Sweatshirt and what I needed to do to make it fit my body the way I wanted it to fit.
The last heavy weight vest getting lots of wear is my purple vest made from Briggs and Little Regal that I picked up at the mill store in New Brunswick on my Epic Adventure a few years ago. I wear this self drafted vest a lot. I love the texture of its mistake rib gradient colours. Evertime I wear it I think about knitting this stitch on another garment. The other vests are usually warmer weather wear.
I would like a vest with a nice deep shawl collar. What I want will be a bit like the Redhook vest from the cover of Jared Flood's book from the long gone Classic Elite days. Simple shape, deep shawl collar. I am also thinking a lot about making a vest with a deep turtleneck like the Vestover or Vilda. But what yarn to use? I have tons of yarn in my stash but until I can see a yarn or yarn combination as a vest, it just stays quiet...waiting...lurking in the corners of my mind.
I knit only a little yesterday but the day was all about yarn. I wound up a lot the hanks that were pulled from the last stash dive. Everything is ready for knitting the sweaters I want from each. I also turned the balls from the spring like yellow Arcane Fibre Works yarn from a frogged project into cakes so I don't need to deal with rolling yarn balls.
I have two more sweater quantities to wind today. Along with knitting that will be enough. Lots of interesting things to do and to think about today.
