20 August 2008

Kai's School Vest

Kai turned six on the tenth of this month. A while ago he asked me to knit him a red school vest for his birthday. Because he wanted to wear it to school it had to be a solid red. I tried to find a pattern with cables or something because a plain red vest is just too boring to knit. I did a lot of searching and couldn't find a pattern I liked, so I decided to make one up. Dangerous, I know.

Thanks to Michael and his superior math skills It wasn't as hard as I thought. I looked through some books and various patterns and found a few cables I liked and jumped in. I am excited to say that it actually worked and he wore the vest to his first day of school.













I'm pretty excited because I would like to start selling some of my patterns and other knitting stuff at my etsy store. I've neglected my store lately-- in fact I it might be empty right now.

I need to make a few adjustments and knit the pattern one more time to check for errors, but once I've done that I can put the vest pattern and the pattern for the cardigan up.

9 comments:

Juliette said...

Looks great!

kacy faulconer said...

That turned out cute.

Kristin said...

If I could knit like you I would cook a lot less too.

Sparklebot said...

I love it when I make something up and it actually works out. Sometimes quite the opposite happens.

Alice said...

You are so very talented.

Ben and Natalies Family Zoo said...

You are amazing!

Natalie

Unknown said...

Thanks Thanks Thanks! I do love the vest. And Smash I agree, more often than not my projects don't turn out the way I'd like. I just undid a baby sweater I was working on. Oh and Jeri, your baby gift might be a little late.

Tyler V said...

I hate you (only because you have SO many more skills than I)!

hOLLIANN said...

I cannot believe you can do that! What a talent!