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Monday, June 30, 2003
Why is the Weekend Always Too Short?At least it was a good weekend! On Friday, we celebrated mom's birthday, and she loved the vest. Of course, being the genius that I am, no pic... but she did agree with me that she liked the "unfinished" front edge- no buttons etc... She said she likes wearing things like that open in the front- "more slimming". So between that success and the yummy Italian dinner and yogurt mousse cake, definitely a good time had by all!On Saturday, after aerobics, it was pool time. FINALLY the weather cooperated with my schedule, and I spent a good long afternoon basking in the sun/water... a little red on my face, but not much, especially considering how pale I am! Sushi for dinner and margheritas later that night finished off a great day... and I even made a little more progress on Dalmore that evening. Sunday was mostly a knitting day. After a good apartment cleaning, I packed up Dalmore and walked over to the neighborhood Barnes & Noble, complete with the ubiquitous *bucks. As a non-coffee drinker, I don't usually get anything at the *bucks, but since I was planning on parking my bum at one of their tables for a couple of hours, I tried their chai... MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! So now I know what to order when I go there... :) Chai in hand, I found a table, whipped out Dalmore, and went at it. I noticed some looks my way as I sat there, but no takers... until a very nice, somewhat older lady came up and asked me some questions. She crochets, but hasn't ever knit, so I explained briefly what fair isle was all about, and suggested she go to one of the craft stores for some relatively inexpensive (but pretty!) yarn and some needles, and give it a try! I also suggested some resources on the internet, and told her about the local knitting meetings I know about in the area... she seemed interested... who knows, perhaps she'll be casting on soon! All in all, though, a very pleasant K-I-P afternoon. I think I may have to make that a Sunday tradition! 
I'm just a few rows past the v-neck steek on Dalmore. I lengthened the armholes by about 9 pattern rows before I started the neck steek, and not only will that hopefully make the vest fit my dad better, but it also had the added advantage of allowing me to finish the armhole decreases before starting the neck steek and decreases... one less thing to keep straight each round! This morning I finished charting out the v-neck decreases for the front... I think I have about 5 more pattern repeats to go until the end, although the last couple of repeats should go pretty quickly as the rounds get smaller and smaller! Here's a close up of the neck steek: 
I think I'll have this finished before August. And then comes the torture of waiting all the way until Christmas for it! I'll go crazy... at least that'll give me plenty of time to block it really well. I'm thinking about buying one of those steamers to help out- I guess I can try with my iron first, and see if I need some more steam power. I guess my next project will be the cotton aran- I have to finish the rest of my swatches, do some laundry with them to test shrinking, and then pick the cables I want to use... and, of course, keep my next fair isle project in the back of my head. I think I'll have to design something from my book of Celtic designs. Oh, and with the leftover shetland from my dad's vest, I think I'll make some gloves and mittens... between those and the ever-present sock projects, that should keep me pretty well set for the next few months! :) The photographs of Dalmore were taken with help from my lovely assistant: 
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