Vine Yoke is finished, well, you know, except for blocking, weaving in a few ends and finding and attaching buttons.

For the purposes of the blog, FINISHED!

What a brilliant project. I cast on at 5pm on Monday and knit my final stitch at 9pm on Thurs. Surely some kind of record. A happy, happy upper body garment for August’s resolution knitting.

I made a couple of wee changes, as follow:

• Left off the  sleeves and continued the yoke lace as a kind of sleeve cap by binding off the wrapped stitches from the body piece and turning the last stitch of the body chart into a k on the right side (p on WS) to match the edging chart. I worked 10 repeats of the yoke chart (may be slight overkill, but I have fat arms), then changed the last stich back to a p on RS, cable cast on those 5 stitches before adding the body stitches to the yoke and continuing on with the back.
• I cast on using long tail and left off the last row and bound off using Russian on the w/s.
• I slipped the first stitch of every w/s, because that’s what I do.
• I didn’t read the notes on the first page properly and picked up and knit all of the wraps. It still looks fine, but it took a tiny bit longer than it could have.

This working of the pattern used FAR less yarn than was indicated (3.15 skeins, rather than 7), which is good, because I only had five. In hindsight, though, I could easily have made the sleeves with the yarn that I had. On the positive side, I’ve enough yarn for a cowl and a hat, so…

The yarn (Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted) is absolutely gorgeous to work with, slightly dry with an almost papery hand, I could knit with it all day.

Five stars for this project.