With my Back to the Fuchsia shawl off the needles, I turned to my next biggest WIP – my Librarian Vest (Ravelry link). I had about 20cm of the body and needed 30, except actually I wanted more like 32-33 because the designer’s was shorter than I wanted. I knitted and knitted while watching Wimbledon and yesterday I finished and blocked it!

I love the gray and pink together, and I’m so glad I only did the pattern on the front instead of all the way around the body – that would have made it go so much slower, and who really sees the back anyway? I’m not a huge fan of the pooling at the bottom. That was before I started alternating my two skeins (WHEN will I learn??) and I didn’t want to frog back that much. And honestly, once I have it on, the pooling isn’t really that noticeable.

And yes, I have tried it on and it fits perfectly, which is a miracle given that my “swatch” was a cowl I knit three years ago with this yarn! I was a little concerned as I was knitting because it was definitely coming out too small for me, but then, blocking worked its magic and now it’s just right. Honestly, I’m kind of tempted to knit another one, but maybe in a solid yarn that wouldn’t require alternating skeins!

Beyond knitting, life is just trucking along, day by day. Work was super stressful for a while there, but now I’m in a quiet period, which I’m fully embracing. Grace is still hanging in there, the stubborn thing, though we’re seeing more signs of the disease’s progression. But she’s alert, she can eat and move around, she wags her tail and is happy to get attention, so I’m trying to go with the flow. We go back to the oncologist for a three-month follow up visit on Wednesday.

I took Jack to the vet last week. He’d had a couple episodes where he was drooling and his teeth were chattering so I was worried he had some kind of mouth/tooth problem. And I was worried they’d just tell us we’d have to put him under to examine him and then they’d want to do a cleaning too and then they’d find a broken tooth or something. But this time we got good news – the vet was able to get a good look and didn’t see anything that concerned her. She also said his teeth were worn but clean and looked good, so she didn’t even recommend a cleaning! Whew. Nice to get a good dog report now and then.

Happy Monday, friends.