Great Beginnings Has A Great Ending.

My little Great Beginnings is finished.  It is so!!! cute.

Pattern:  Great Beginnings by Anne Russell

Yarn:  Opal Sock yarn in Tiger Colourway - from stash

and Noro Sock yarn for button band

Needles:  3.5mm circ

Despite  knitting my Great Beginnings vest with   sock weight yarn instead of the Aran weight suggested by the pattern it was nonetheless still a quick knit.  A week or so of knitting while watching the 6 pm news and voila!  a great baby vest.

Using stash was the main intention for the project and the reason for choosing sock yarn.  I gambled with sizing.  Knitting the second  largest size with the finer yarn gave me exactly the 3 month size. Not that I would take that as gospel should you choose to do the same but that is what I managed.

Naturally, as often happens with stash, I ran out of yarn.  I would rather have run out of yarn far from the finish line than with only a few rows left  to do.  That way some nice co-ordinating stripes might have been  an attractive way to  finish off the vest.  But as luck would have it,  with just the button/hole bands left to knit, I came to the end of the Opal yarn.  Fortunately I had some co-ordinating Noro sock yarn in the stash and it looks fine  - previously planned even - in the button bands. 

Now to find some great buttons -  and a baby  -  for my Great Beginnings