This went very quickly. The pattern is very well written and easy to follow and set up in knitCompanion. I think I just wanted an easy and mindless knit, which this one is given how well written the pattern is. The pattern actually has all the shaping written out for all of the different sizes, so all you have to do is find your size and follow it. No expanding out condensed text with strings of numbers for each of the different sizes and the “at the same time” instruction with yet more strings of numbers for the different sizes. I can follow those just fine, but sometimes you just want easy. Now I’m into the body and it is just endless rounds of knitting that I can read during.
I am reading an actual physical book, a paperback, from my book stash (also known as a library) - Mars by Ben Bova from 1992. You can’t even buy it on Amazon and it is not available on Kindle. I know that paperbacks typically require a hand (or two) to hold them open, but I have this nifty thing called a book weight that I bought from
Levenger. I just put the book in my lap and lay this across the open pages. I have to shift it up and down as I read, but it works and lets me do two of my favorite things - read and knit.
Levenger sells lots of neat stuff for readers, and fountain pens. I really love fountain pens. I am enjoying this knit so much more than Last Word, and I may have to make more than one of these vests. The pattern does say that it is so quick and fun you will want to make more than one, and they may just be right about that.
Pattern: Libraire by Tricot Design MCL
Yarn: The Ross Farm Ashen Wensleydale
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