where is that man in the brown shorts?

luckily for kimberly, the ups man hasn't delivered the black water abbey autumn yarn for the celtic poncho today.

so i finished the even more finicky borders on the vents. the fiddly stranded inserts get sewn into the vents on the sleeves and back.



first i divided one side of the vent onto 4 parts with pins. then picked up 57 sts. pick up one stitch in the center (with the coil-less pin) then back down the other side picking up another 57 sts.



the border is a sweet little reverse stockinette thing, wouldn't be bad once, but you have to do all this 3 times...



here is the insert. none of the pieces have been blocked yet, but i remeasured the back at the armhole, and it's exactly the width i want. perfect, now i can steam block it and not wet block it.



my little madaket, isn't she adorable? i love her more than words can ever say :-)