FO: John's Gray Vest

Started: 11/02/06
Finished: 12/03/06
Materials: Brown Sheep Company Top o' the Lamb in Brownstone, trusty 24" bamboo #8 Clover circs, wooden craft buttons stained to match-ish
Pattern: Plain vest from The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns

This went together very quickly, especially for me. It would have been done even sooner had I not dallied in blocking and finishing it. The side seams are almost obscenely tidy, and make up for the frankly sloppy shoulder seaming and the slightly off-kilter buttonholes. It fits perfectly.

I'm sort of between projects now. I've got a sweater for Josie on the trusty #8 circs, but I'm not liking the texture. I want something softer for a sweater for her--or for anyone, really. Romney is a bit scratchy for next to the skin. But I promised her that yarn, and the next thing off the needles, so I'm toying with making a large shawl for her instead, maybe in old shale. It'd be fine for that.

In the meantime I'm crocheting of all things a night cap, patterned after the ones girls used to wear in the 18th-19th century. Not the stocking-cap kind, more bonnet-y. Josie started wearing a wool cap to bed at night lately so I thought I'd make her a proper one.