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End of Electra

What can I say? This vest was fun, fast and easy to knit. I’m wearing it today and just love it. Here are my finishing photos:

This is the top edge of the vest — I didn’t bind off just yet. I just strung the stitches onto some waste yarn so that I could sew and cut the steeks first. You can see the stitch markers indicating where the steek stitches start and end.

Yeah, there were a ton of ends to weave in, even with knitting in the round. But maybe a quarter of the number of ends compared to knitting flat and then seaming. Whoohoo.

Just like with the baby norgi, I machine stitched down between steek stitches 1 & 2 and 3 & 4. Then again down the middle of stitch 2 and 3…

Then I cut straight down the middle between stitches 2 and 3… Easy peasy.

I couldn’t resist the lovely window light coming through the sheers in our bedroom. The vest is kind of cropped, so there’s a bit more shirt sticking out than I’m used to. But I love it!

Electra Vest from Rowan 38

• Pattern: Rowan 38
• Yarn: Rowan Kid Silk Haze, Felted Tweed and Yorkshire Tweed in the specified colours
• Needles: US 7 / 4.5mm and US 3 / 3.25mm Addi Turbos
• Changes: Rather than knitting flat pieces, I knit this in the round and steeked the neckline and armholes. I added 4 stitches for each steek. The shoulders were joined with a 3-needle bindoff. Yippee, no sewing!
• Finished Measurements: 34″ size

Would you like some dryer lint with that?

Why yes, I do knit. But I’m feeling pulled in all directions — should I knit something for my dad’s upcoming 60th birthday, or all those friends and colleages who are newly pregnant, or be selfish and knit for myself? Well, let’s see…

I’m knitting for myself. Awful, aren’t I?

I started the cover vest on the new Rowan 38. It’s a simple fair isle vest with a combination of Yorkshire Tweed DK, Felted Tweed and Kidsilk Haze. Of course, Rowan has written the pattern as two flat pieces to be seamed later, but the rebel in me is knitting this gasp in the round. And I’m going to steek the armholes and front neck opening.

We’re not going to talk about how the colours in the printed Rowan magazine are totally and completely wrong. But I will say that when I pay an arm and a leg for Rowan yarn, I do expect to see nice and well-made yarns. I think that’s pretty basic. But this Yorkshire Tweed? Can you say “got VM?” Every foot or so, I’m picking out pieces of straw! And the yarn itself? It looks like rocket pop coloured dryer lint exploded on my knitting… but in a good way, I guess. The grist/weight of Yorkshire Tweed DK and Felted Tweed are different, so the fair isle comes out a little bubbly looking. Hopefully a good swish and block will make it behave.

And finally, I had a chance to update the shop with some new yarns — here they are for a group photo! See the new stuff here…

There’s one skein of sock yarn inspired by Firefly, plus another that’s inspired by Pumpkin Spice Lattes… speaking of which…