La Vie Baroque - At the waist

I have finished all of the decreases leading down to the waist and am working the straight part leading to the increases for the hips.  I did decide to do the lace panels down the sides, just to keep the mindless part of the knitting not quite so mindless because I do find it boring, and have actually falling asleep while knitting it.  It works best if I'm reading or watching something that actually requires me to pay attention.  I'm almost done with one skein and have already wound the second skein.

Pattern:  La Vie Douce by Vera Sanon
Yarn: Madelinetosh Pashmina in Baroque Violet
Needles:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

La Vie Baroque

Madelinetosh Pashmina in Baroque Violet.  I bought this yarn not too long ago and it has been sitting in one of my recent acquisition piles so I picked it up when I finished up my Wind in the Willows and needed to cast on a new project.  If I had bought this with a project in mind, I forgot what it was so I did a pattern search on Ravelry and found a top-down raglan, La Vie Douce.

The cast on was new to me.  A crochet cast-on that I like.  I got through all of the raglan increases and am on the body.  Now I just have to decide if I want to do the lace panel down the sides.

Pattern:  La Vie Douce by Vera Sanon
Yarn: Madelinetosh Pashmina in Baroque Violet
Needles:  US 5 (3.75 mm)