Down the rabbit hole
by exercisebeforeknitting
What started as a casual, ongoing, secondary project quickly grew into a terribly addicting, compelling project not long after I wrote about it.
It was bound to happen. I wanted my stashbusting vest to be a project to work on slowly throughout the year, adding scraps as they became available. Well, let’s face it: there is no shortage of Nature Spun Sport scraps in my house. Shortly after I posted about my Ultimate Stashbusting Vest, I felt a tremendous urge to FINISH! Right away! Sadly, a stranded vest with six colors and no repeated peeries requiring large amounts of math at regular intervals does not make for a good portable project. Alas! I have been dying to finish this for six weeks. Now, it is almost ready!
With the major knitting done, I steeked the vest yesterday and picked up stitches for the first armhole edging this morning.
The other armhole and the neck edging remain to be done. Oh, and then there’s this little matter of weaving in ends…
no wonder you wanted to hurry up on it, it’s gorgeous! I don’t envy your upcoming weaving party though
Simply gorgeous! It’s absolutely stunning.
That was incredibly fast! I feel like you just started yesterday, and here you are! It looks really great, the armhole size is spot on!
What a lovely vest! It certainly is pretty, and to think it is made of scraps!
I love it!
Wow! The vest is gorgeous! You must have some of the best colored scraps around!
It’s gorgeous!
Fantastic! I’m currently knitting my first steeked garment, a vest. I’m taking a class and today she talked about color selection, patterns, math, etc. You’re designing as you go and I’m super impressed!
Looking good
And don’t weave in the ends…no, seriously. If it is a grabby wool yarn you don’t really need to, and can tie the ends off instead. I can send you a pick of the inside of my Autumn Rose if you wish.
its beautiful!! I’m want it… but I don’t envy all those ends to weave in. Can’t wait to see the finale.
Absolutely gorgeous and amazing! I love the two color arm and neck edging–a richly colorful touch.
I really like the vest. I’m not usually an orange person, but I love how it balances the brown in this piece. And the patterns are great! It’s fun to have the “random” peeries; makes it more interesting than a repeating pattern piece (and probably more fun to knit, too).
I really love this project, the colors are stunning together, can’t wait to see the finished garment!!
Wow! It is gorgeous! Your stranding is so even and nice.
Someday – pretty please – you’ll have to show us how you get such beautiful tension in your stranded work. I love, love the colors and am so impressed.
wow, it looks beautiful so far!
What a beautiful vest. Colorwork is so fun!
Where did you learn to steek? Is there a great website, or a really specific book? I’ve nearly finished the body of a sweater to be steeked, and discovered I didn’t set it up right, with steeks in stripes or checkerboard. So I guess I’ll have to reinforce with a sewing machine, but I really am quite concerned about the details.
oooh – looking good!!!!!