Pattern: my own
Started: August 22, 2008
Finished: September 16, 2008
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden 45% Silk 45% Kid Mohair 10% Lambswool, 110 yards/50 grams, and Knit Picks Shadow Merino Wool, 440 yards/50 grams, laceweight knit with 3 strands.
Needles: 6 & 4
Gauge: 5.5 stitches/in and 5 rows/in
Notes: Used 405 yards total Noro = 290 in fair isle of vest + 115 in ribbing. Used 1152 yards of Knit Picks Shadow, tripled so 384 yards. Total for vest is 789 yards.

Knit in the round bottom up – hem to shoulders. Start with provisional crochet cast on in one color for bottom edge – ribbing knit on after body of vest is complete. Steeks for armholes and V-neck, crocheted to secure before cutting, whip stitched facings to inside after ribbing was knit.

Over-dyed Noro and Shadow (original color was Purple Grape) in golden yellow.

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Knit in the round with extra steek stitches

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Crochet between steek stitches to reinforce before cutting

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Close up of crocheted reinforcement

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Cutting between the crocheted ridges

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Armhole ribbing

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V-neck facing

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Inside of vest to show facings

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