This is the entrelac vest from Noro Volume 20 done in Silk Garden Lite color 2014.
The freaky thing about this is how the colors lined up. I did not cut the yarn or try to manipulate the color changes up to the under arms. It just turned out that all the bright colors lined up on one side of the best and all the somber grey blues lined up on the other side of the vest. How freaky deaky is that? If I had tried to make it come out that way it would not. It just happened to line up that way because by chance I picked up a certain ball and started at a certain part of the stripe. If you look at the picture of the vest all slayed out like a fileted fish you'll see how it is all just one long transition from one color to the next.
The freaky thing about this is how the colors lined up. I did not cut the yarn or try to manipulate the color changes up to the under arms. It just turned out that all the bright colors lined up on one side of the best and all the somber grey blues lined up on the other side of the vest. How freaky deaky is that? If I had tried to make it come out that way it would not. It just happened to line up that way because by chance I picked up a certain ball and started at a certain part of the stripe. If you look at the picture of the vest all slayed out like a fileted fish you'll see how it is all just one long transition from one color to the next.
I should have continued the color pattern by doing the bottom ribbing for just half the vest in one part of the colorway and the other half in another part of the colorway. BUt by that point I was so ready to be done with the vest that my brain was not fully functional.
This vest was done as a shop sample. I will be teaching a class on this pattern, and needed to get this done at least a month before class started so that people could see it on display. Finished on August 29, 2007.
What I learned from knitting this vest:
1. Never again volunteer to knit an entrelac vest in less than one month.
2. Addi Lace needles are the perfect needles for doing entrelac. The sharp points make picking up a breeze. After struggling along using addi turbos (needles were too slippery - stitches kept falling off the needles), Addi naturas (tips were too dull), and Inox (join was too stiff) I purchased some addi lace needles from The Mannings, and then the knitting sped up and was much more enjoyable.
3. Noro yarns will never cease to surprise and amaze. I've never done a project with Noro that didn't turn out fricking fabulous. Can I have a warehouse full of noro at my disposal please?
4. Picking up an little bit in the corners of entrelacs keeps you from getting holes (old news, but I thought I write this done to remind myself). I learned this from a Japanese knitting book, more on this some day later.
5. 9 rib stitches equals 6 stockinette entrelac stitches.
