Sometimes there’s heaps to blog about, sometimes there’s nothing. Right now I’m spoilt for choice. That’s probably because of the hot weather last week. It kept me inside, huddled under the aircon knitting or thinking about knitting, for hours and hours.
Today I bring you one of a few recent fos:
The Inca Vest. I dropped into Spotlight on Saturday morning and bought a zipper. (Remind me next time I’m designing a vest or jacket that open ended zips don’t come shorter than 30 cm.) I googled for tutorials on sewing in zippers, then got working. At first I thought I might sew in some zippers on two pillows I knitted ages ago when I’d finished with the vest. By the end of the vest I remembered this thought and laughed at my own foolishly optimistic nature.
I’m mostly happy with it. The ‘mostly’ bit is because I think the fronts are too narrow from the armholes upward, but it doesn’t bother me enough to rip it out and re-knit it. And it’s not as noticable if I wear it unzipped, as in this next, slighly out of focus pic:
I’m wearing it today. Well, at least until it gets too warm. It’s certainly a comfy vest to wear.
More fos tomorrow.
Very noice vest, Trudi. I like it unzipped, too, as I find that’s the way I wear mine more often than not. That all reminds that I must get around to making more vests this year.
I’m a zipper 1/2 up person. The opened ended zip length non-options is a real annoyance. However, the Vest looks very nice on.
Very nice vest! Though how you can be wearing it in the middle of summer, I’m not quite sure. It’s freakin’ hot where I am!
Freakin’ heat is why I delayed blogging about it for two days. Today, at last, we had some respite at only 27 degrees. Tomorrow it’s back to being freakin’ hot again. Sigh.
Sorry, make that 20 degrees for today and 27 for tomorrow. Then it get’s freakin’ hot at 36 and 38 degrees.