Life is still very stressful here for M and me, and I can’t yet say anything definite about career plans\/changes. This stress has made my blogging, responding to comments (which I always read and enjoy!), and reading all your blogs more sporadic than I would like. I can but try. So I have decided to make the blog a stress free zone of happy knitting and crafting as an antidote.<\/p>\n

Pink is happy color. I like to wear pink, and I like pink flowers. I don’t consider it my “favorite” color; I usually say that is yellow or green when pressed. But I don’t wear yellow much, as very few shades of it look good on me. And I’ve yet to come across a shade of pink that made me look bad. So I like to knit with pink yarn. Originally, I wanted to get my La Gran cable-rib cardi done by Easter, but my sore knuckle held me back, but now the sleeves are done and blocked!
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\nI also did the neckband, and I have purchased buttons (the colors are better in this photo compared to the sleeves).
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\nThe first time<\/a> I knit this pattern I used some beautiful Czech glass buttons, which were soooo heavy. The lightweight mohair yarn just couldn’t support them properly. So here I chose plastic in a matching pink. I like the square shape, and I hope their considerably lighter weight will work better. So now I just need to seam and sew the buttons on.<\/p>\n

But this past week I wasn’t in the right mood for neat seaming, so I cast on a new project. I had planned to switch back to the nubby cardigan<\/a>, but then I finally found a vest pattern I liked for some pink yarn I’ve had in stash for a while. I bought this Goshen<\/a> from Valley Yarns at Webs to make a short sleeved top, but then decided I didn’t want to do that. After buying a couple of blouses at an after-Christmas sale that had the same pink as the yarn, I decided to knit a vest. Apparently, I am very picky about sweater vests, because it took me until last week to find a pattern I liked.
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\nNot that you can tell much about the style from that photo–but the yarn pink is the same as the light pinks in the two blouses, even though it doesn’t look exact on my computer. So far the front is 18 cm of 2×2 rib. The pattern is Glace from Rowan Classic Summer Delights<\/em> (Rav link<\/a>), and it has interesting construction that I haven’t started yet, so I’ll talk about that later. But I do like the Goshen yarn which is 48% Peruvian cotton\/46% Modal\/6% silk. It knits up quite well, and it is making a nice fabric. Since it is a cotton blend yarn, and I’m knitting a vest, I decided to knit this before going back to the all-wool-worsted-weight nubby cardigan (it was over 90 degrees here last week when I decided that). I am also knitting the size recommended for my bust size, which I have been too timid to do in the past, thinking the result will be too small. So, with a vest and an easily frogged yarn, I thought the time investment and risk of failure were not too great to knit the “recommended” size. We shall see if I end up with a wearable piece of clothing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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