{"id":334,"date":"2011-02-08T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-02-08T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T13:22:44","slug":"mayas-sexy-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Maya’s sexy vest"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019ve finished something that was supposed to be sexy, but turned out not even close to sexy. Since I saw the picture of the model of Mina’s Tuxedo Vest from the book Custom Knits<\/a> by Wendy Bernard a few years ago I really wanted this vest, as soon as I could find time to make it. It has been on my to-do-list forever! I found what I believed to be the perfect yarn, the gauge was off by three stitches per 4\u201d, and the needle size was spot on. Now these three stitches shouldn\u2019t make much of a difference, I thought, but apparently I was wrong. Because as you can see, my vest didn\u2019t come out as the sassy one in the book. I made some adjustments, amongst others I made the vest a few inches longer and I wasn\u2019t pleased with the cowl neck, so I actually ripped it up three times before it looked good, but still… The neckline is not as deep as on the model, and the vest pulls up in front, which makes it quite unflattering over my chest. Since I\u2019ve been knitting for a very long time, I know that this happens, it might be the gauge, it might be the needle size, it might be my body shape, it might be the sum of loads of factors. I\u2019m still in love with the vest, but I\u2019m going to put it on hold until I find another \u201dperfect\u201d yarn, and I\u2019m still in love with the yarn I\u2019ve used, so I\u2019m going to turn the vest I knitted into something different when I find the \u201dperfect\u201d project. In Norway we have this expression \u201dto shoot one\u2019s own leg\u201d, and I can\u2019t help thinking that my New Years resolution to just knit for my self this year is getting back at me with awful results. So now I\u2019m knitting baby cardigans, obviously not for my self…<\/p>\n

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Jeg har strikket ferdig noe som skulle bli sexy, men som endte opp som alt annet enn det. Jeg har \u00f8nsket meg denne helt siden jeg s\u00e5 bildet av Mina’s Tuxedo Vest i boka Custom Knits<\/a> av Wendy Bernard for noen \u00e5r siden, bare jeg kunne finne tid til \u00e5 strikke den, den har alts\u00e5 v\u00e6rt p\u00e5 prosjektlista mi i en liten evighet. Jeg kom over det jeg trodde kom til \u00e5 v\u00e6re det perfekte garnet for dette prosjektet, strikkefastheten hadde en forskjell p\u00e5 bare tre masker per 10 cm, og pinnest\u00f8rrelsen var akkurat det den skulle v\u00e6re. Disse tre maskene kan da umulig gj\u00f8re noen stor forskjell, tenkte jeg, med tydeligvis s\u00e5 tok jeg helt feil. For som du kan se, vesten min ligner ikke den frekke orginalen i det hele tatt. Jeg gjorde noen endringer underveis, blant annet s\u00e5 strikket jeg vesten noen centimetre lengre, og jeg var ikke forn\u00f8yd med halsen f\u00f8r jeg hadde rekket den opp og strikket den p\u00e5 nytt hele tre ganger, men allikevel… Utringninga er ikke s\u00e5 dyp som den p\u00e5 bildet, og vesten \u201ctrekker oppover\u201d midt foran, noe som er ganske ukledelig. Siden jeg har strikket veldig lenge vet jeg at dette er s\u00e5nt som skjer. Det kan v\u00e6re strikkefastheten, det kan v\u00e6re garnet, det kan v\u00e6re min kroppsfasong, det kan v\u00e6re summen av en rekke ting. Jeg er fremdeles forelsket i denne vesten, men jeg skal legge den p\u00e5 vent til jeg finner det \u201cperfekte\u201d garnet, jeg er ogs\u00e5 fremdeles forelsket i garnet jeg brukte s\u00e5 den strikkede vesten skal bli noe annet s\u00e5 snart jeg finner det \u201cperfekte\u201d prosjektet. Du vet uttrykket \u201c\u00e5 skyte seg selv i leggen\u201d, jeg kan ikke fri meg for tanken om at det er mitt bastante nytt\u00e5rsforsett om bare \u00e5 strikke til meg selv som f\u00f8rer til kjedelige resultat. S\u00e5 n\u00e5 strikker jeg babyjakker, \u00e5penbart ikke til meg selv…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u2019ve finished something that was supposed to be sexy, but turned out not even close to sexy. Since I saw the picture of the model of Mina’s Tuxedo Vest from the book Custom Knits by Wendy Bernard a few years ago I really wanted this vest, as soon as I could find time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,58,44,53],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished","tag-knitting","tag-minas-tuxedo-vest","tag-tension","tag-wendy-bernard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}