The green vest is done. But the weather is so grey and horrid that I cannot take a reasonable photo of it. These will have to do:
Thanks so much for your shoulder seam pointers. I tried the kitchener method, got in a hideous muddle and decided I could live with a 3 needle bind off instead. It doesn't look perfect, but it's fine.
In fact, the same could be said for the whole thing. I love the yarn (Manos del Uruguay in Colour 2364), but I'm not sure it really was the right choice for the pattern (Gesta from Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton Hand Knitting Collection Book 2). The original uses a fuzzy Noro, which I couldn't get hold of, but I'd imagine comes out far softer looking.
Also, if I were more experienced, I would have figured out that being a ribbed knit, this stretches a lot. I could have gone down a size quite happily - there's room for a leprechaun in here as well as me. My edge stitches are far from perfect either, but I'm going to wear it anyway. And the best news is I have enough yarn left to try a little knit bowl which I plan to felt. Very excited about that.
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