Well folks, here it is. I am very proud of the finished product. I think the yarn color is a perfect dusty rose. It looks as it if was knit up seventy years ago but here it is today a product of my vintage hands. I displayed this on an adorable vintage childrens hanger with a painted cat on it. Can we say awwwww!

Yarn Used: 3 ply pink 100% cashmere hand twisted from 1 ply cashmere from ColormartUK for me. This loose twist works A’ok with stockinette stitch.

Time Spent Knitting: Started 12/23/05, Finished 1/8/06.

New Skills Learned: This item starts with a mitre edge which is basically an increase in sts at bottom front corners. The edging also has a mitred edge. This allows the edge seams to come together neetly at an angle.

Frusterations or changes / clarification made to pattern: I notice that vintage patterns do not have decreases one stitch before the end of a row. K2tog’s are often at the very end of a row. When seaming items you don’t have a neat row of slanting decreases to pull my mattress stitch from. You seam from a pretty raw edge, if you get what I mean. I modified this edge in this pattern. What I have learned with knitting is that sometimes you have to be gutsy and go with intuition. Here are the changes I made. It worked out great I think, through the neckline almost looks like it has small darts since I seam further in from the edge. It’s just so much easier to seam this way though that it’s worth it.

For anyone doing a pattern with scalloped edges, brace yourself to be patient while heming all the edges. It took me all night after work to hem. I hemed using a duplicate stitch but picking up a purl bump from the opposite side of the work ever few columns.