Queue notes: See favorited by jknitma of stockinette zombies podcast, a little less negative ease looks great on her! Plus doing it in the round with just placket is nicer. Love it!<\/p>\n
6\/13: cast-on before knitting IN. knitting a much longer body (measure this).<\/p>\n 7\/20: remathed the pleats and decreases for a closer fitting bust. May need to still add more hook + eyes and buttons; was worried about the weight they were adding and the hook + eyes are tedious with my untrained fingers!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Queue notes: See favorited by jknitma of stockinette zombies podcast, a little less negative ease looks great on her! Plus doing it in the round with just placket is nicer. Love it! 6\/13: cast-on before knitting IN. 6\/16: WWKIP in random places on errands. 6\/20: bus\/MAX knitting to PDX 6\/21-22: car knitting to and from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[65,352,353,354,67,43],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finished","category-knitting","tag-cardigan","tag-futurama","tag-green","tag-ravellenic","tag-sweater","tag-vest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_8313_medium.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yarningspodcast.com\/wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
6\/16: WWKIP in random places on errands.
6\/20: bus\/MAX knitting to PDX
6\/21-22: car knitting to and from the beach
6\/23-24: BSG \/ car knitting
6\/24: end of first skein, about 8\u201d into body.
6\/25: oh dear, I made a huge mistake. so much of this knitting was done to contain my stress, and I didn\u2019t notice a double<\/em> twist.
6\/26: planning on steeking to fix the twist issue. did tests with paper and swatches to be sure this will work. carrying on with the knitting.<\/p>\n
7\/30: prepped with crochet to cut the steek
8\/3: knit fronts and backs; decided the vest looked so cute, sleeves weren\u2019t going to be needed for my personal style (i like to layer)
8\/4+5: knit button bands (no button holes), knit short row sleeves to edge the top with picots.
8\/6: knit color picot edging. Blocked
8\/7: began sewing ribbon onto backs of both button bands (29\u201d includes extra folded over on each end).
8\/8: finish sewing in ribbon
8\/10+11: sew in hook + eyes (5 sets on top to start)
8\/12: sew on top buttons (2 to start)<\/p>\n