At long last, I have found a color work vest that I want to knit! I joined Kate Davies club:
Inspired By Islay for the winter. Last week this amazing vest pattern arrived in my inbox. I became instantly smitten with one of the variations of the
Carraig Fhada vest!
I went right to my leftover skeins from the
Seven Skein club. This was a previous Kate Davies club. In this club, Kate introduced her own line of yarn called
Buachaille. I thought for once I will knit a proper swatch for this vest with the colors I do have to get my gauge sorted out.
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| I am missing two colors for this swatch (new Moonlicht Nicht & Furze) but I was able to put together a reasonable swatch for gauge and colors. I am using 3.75mm circular needles. I like to knit a swatch on the same type of needles I plan on using. The swatch has 3 pattern repeats for a 16-inch circular needle. The top colorway is using Ptarmigan which is the white, the bottom is using Haar the gray. I do like both but will go with the white. However, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking about muck/dirt factor of the Ptarmigan. The Furze is a yellowy gold color that I have not yet met in person. I used Macallum a raspberry color. |
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| I am drawn to both colorways, but I do appreciate the brightness of this combination. |
More notes can be found on
my Ravelry project page as well for my new vest!
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| Let's just talk about the weather a bit here: We have had a good solid week of freezing your arse off temperatures! |
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| Things starting to warm up no wind chill! |
