Knit One Below... Great Book

I saw the book Knit One Below (rav link) on a ravelry post about the best books published in 2008. Being the craft book person that I am I gave the list a perusing and found this one on the list. I hadn't heard of it before and thought hmmm, I will have to look that up at some point and see what it is all about. Well, then the next time I was in Barnes & Noble there it was on the shelf! I looked at it and was fascinated by the technique that is used for all the projects throughout the book. Most of the projects looked pretty straight forward and I decided that I really wanted to try out this technique. It also didn't hurt that I had a coupon to use. What is really fun about it is that it makes vertical stripes of two different yarns through your whole piece. Without intarsia or fair isle or slip stitching. Once I got the hang of the movement it was really fast and fun. After I got back with the book I quickly picked out a couple of stash yarns and set to work on a vest. I finished the vest the other day and today tucked in the ends and it is currently blocking. Yeah!! I can't wait to see how it looks on my daughter once it is dry. Maybe she can even wear it to church on Sunday given that we are evidently forecasted to revisit winter this weekend around here. The other nice thing about a lot of the projects using this technique is that they are reversible with both sides having a really cool look to them.