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Knit - Fair Isle
Vest Pattern from:
McCall's Needlework & Crafts, Winter 1978 Okay, THIS project is on the thirty year plan! Or more, or then again, it may never get finished. I'm more likely to get hit by a bus than finish this. The really sad part is I only have to finish the arm hole binding. The REALLY sad part is that I only have about 3 inches left to knit of that as it sits on the needles! Pathetic, isn't it!? I was in high school when I started this, fell in love with the picture of it as soon as the magazine came in the mail (my mother's magazine, I might add, which she has done without ever since!). The problem was that we lived in the country, with no real craft shop or knitting shop, or anything of the like within 50 miles. I made a trip to the 'local' Lee Wards store - about 30 miles away, and picked up what I thought would be similar 4-ply fingering yarn. I'm sure it is similar, because my test patch was spot on for the stitches per inch/row. Problem is the Annie Hall look went out of style before I finished it, and I didn't finish it because somewhere along the way I decided I didn't really like the solid colors verses the tweedy colors used on the the original vest in the magazine. Maybe I'll finish it
in time for my daughter to wear it when she is in high school.
Assuming the Annie Hall look returns......
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