I Give Up

 Here's my vest front.......again.  I ripped it out. 

 I admit it;  sometimes your bright idea is just a bust.

 I thought I had worked out the problem of the sides not matching from this self-striping yarn,

 if I made the two fronts separately.   

Knitting them together had it's own problems. 

 It got worse when I had to split for the v-neck 

and still use two balls of yarn to knit the two top parts of the front.

I gave up and knit it as the pattern designer calls for-two individual fronts. 

 The stripes won't match at the side

 but I promise myself not to look at the side seams in a mirror!

At least the fronts are knitting up faster on half as many stitches!

And I am still using the short rows on the garter tabs 

so they don't make them draw in so I can say I've learned a lot from my mistakes 

and I still like the colors 

so I just might get through this pattern without having a bonfire!

Tonight is the first time that Nyki (on the right)

has allowed Lena to join us.

Usually it is 'whoever got on my bed first' got to stay there

and the second-comer had to jump back down.

I just might be feeling better about things.....