Diego is Done

Well, I've never knit something for someone that they specifically asked me to make, but when my nephew (whom I absolutely adore) called and asked me to make something for his son, my adorable Eason, I panicked I said, "sure, of course, I can figure that out, I'd love to do it." GULP!

I have never knitted something custom before and I've never knitted a vest at all, but that was what he wanted for his son. My thoughts? "How long could it take me?" After all, he's just turning 4. Even if I make mistakes along the way (I didn't, yay!!!) who would know besides me?

So I took out my guitar and I smashed it against the wall, I smashed it against the floor,... oh, wait, I've got Jim Steinman in my head, let me get back to this vest. Yeah, the vest. I took out my knitting needles (hand made ones from Costa Rica, that I think are gorgeous) and pulled out some stash yarn and set about designing a vest for my adorable grandnephew.

This is what I came up with for the pocket area:



















and this is another view:



















and look at a close-up of the patch I found that I had a good friend hot stamp on fabric for me so I could sew it onto the vest:


















And here's the back of the collar (that was a little tough for me. I didn't know how to do this and it came to me in a dream. Really. I did not work from a pattern for this and you won't see it anywhere else. It's mine, all mine, until I give it to Eason).




I hope he likes it. It's made out of wool and camel that I had in my stash. It was the closest thing I had to the color the vest should be. It was really fun to design this for him.

One of these days I have to take notes on what I'm doing so I could possibly duplicate something if I wanted to... ah, well, that's for another day.