New Vest!

Yay! My mom and I have finished my nice new vest! It's nice and warm, and very good for these cold days that are settling in! While my mom knit most of it, I did help out on a bit of the middle part. The Broken Rib pattern is pretty fast, fun, and easy!

It is the Urban Vest by Norah Gaughan from Knitter's, and is made from Berroco Ultra Alpaca.

As you can see the vest is a nice, bright, orange. Very fun for the fall! But our original plans were for a light gray vest (like the one shown in the magazine). However, when we received our yarn, it was a bright orange, with a note stating that it had been "checked and double checked" with it. Hmm. I hope someone out there is enjoying their light gray and not missing their orange too badly. While we could have returned it, we decided orange is actually quite a nice color, and so we did the project in it.

I decided to do the vest much longer than the pattern says, since I like nice and long things, and the actual pattern makes it very short.