Beginning Larch

My grandmother's vest has officially been put on hold.  I have found this to be extremely unfortunate, because I was on a roll and would have finished it in just a week.  The reason is it put to a stop is because I have run out of yarn.  My grandmother sent one skein too little.  She already has another on it's way and I hope to receive it soon !  This is how far I managed to get in only five days with the yarn she did send me.  I finished the body of the vest and the left front band.  I still have to knit the ribbing on the top pockets, shoulders, neck, and sew the button band to the right side of the cardi vest !  I would have loved to have been able to finish, block, and send this off to my grandma, and I am sure she would agree that it would have been fabulous to have had it finished and sent off  so quickly !!!

In spite of the yarn shortage on her vest, I have decided to embrace this long period of time and cast something new onto my needles !  I would love to cast a new cardigan for myself onto my needles, but, at the moment, I don't have enough of one colour to knit myself a full garment.  So, while not knitting on the vest for my grandmother, I have cast on the Larch shawlette published by Tinks and Frog Rue.  I have been looking at this shawlette for quite some time and didn't know what yarn to knit it out of.  And so, I showed Robert the Larch pattern and let him choose the yarn for it !  Here is what he chose !

I personally, would have chosen to knit it in a mustard yellow, but the colour he has chosen is perfect.  Now I can smile down at it when I wear it and think of how he chose something so vibrant and colourful for me to wrap around my neck !

He said it was 'pretty,'  which I think is cute and funny to begin with :)