note: front flaps have been raised about an inch and a half from the sample shown

Approximate yardage requirements: 32” - 850, 36” - 1000, 40.5” - 1100, 45” - 1230, 50.5” - 1400

A slightly fitted vest knit in one piece from the bottom up with armbands and collar picked up.

This pattern uses short rows and the three-needle bind off for the shoulders. You will need to know how to pick up wraps for short rows and how to pick up stitches.

I had several awesome great-aunts with cool names – this is the first of several vests I intend to name in their honor. My Aunt (pronounced ‘Ahnt’) Aileen was one of my favorite people. She raised beef cattle on a farm and lived in a beautiful, unusual, rambling, understatedly grand old house that fascinated me as a child. You are probably picturing a rough and ready, weathered, mannish woman but she was attractive, petite, stylish, and well-educated. She was my grandmother’s closest sister (there were 6 girls in the family.) The older I get, the more I realize just how amazing she was. By far the coolest octogenarian I’ve ever known. I hope I’m fortunate enough to be even a little bit like her when I’m 80.