Waistcoat for mum.

[Antidigger]

In my bid to bite off more than I can chew I promised to knit my mum a waistcoat. She wanted something quite long, and something that would go with a lot of different things. I looked for some patterns and decided that I would learn some lace knitting this time, and bought a pattern & some wool.

  ARRGH! I tried and tried and tried, and eventually took the pattern to the knitting club I go to: The particular size I wanted just didn't work. Not even the experienced ladies at the club could make it add up. That took me a few months to work out.

So I picked a simple pattern (in chunky this time) off the internet and decided I'd add a bit of lace knitting to it out of the book I've got. I'm not going to link to the pattern, because when it came to the shoulders I had to re-write the pattern several times to get the hang of what was meant and it still doesn't look quite right. Oh. Yes. I also fiddled with it mightily to get the lace pattern in as well.


So, overall, I learned to lace knit, I learned to start (sort of) patch pockets, I learned to pick up stitches for ribbed edges and I learned to interpret awkward patterns. I wish I'd put the lace pattern on the pocket and also that I'd written out the pattern in a comprehensible form before I started knitting and I wish I'd written the alterations in a form I could still understand now!

A couple of highlights for the new things I learned.

[faemystique]

well done.. I haven't tackled anything so large or in depth... labor of love

[mrsflibble]

oh it's lovely, like a special sampler!

[RaraAvis]

It turned out beautiful!

[Antidigger]

Thank you. It took a lot of swearing.