Casting Purls

Over Christmas break, my mother asked me to knit her a vest similar to one my late grandmother made for her several years ago. After one all-nighter figuring out the pattern and the gauge, I decided that there was no way in which to complete the project prior to returning to Ann Arbor. Several weeks later, it is finally finished — just in time for her birthday!

This is the first garment that I have completed, earlier projects being baby blankets, scarves, and popover mittens. While it is not as nice as my mother's mother's original, I am prodigiously proud of the fact that I eliminated any and all seams by knitting the body on a round and then weaving the shoulders together at the top. Minor achievement? Perhaps, but still, it makes me happy.