Inspirtation: VK International Fall 2003 -- there was a pictures of Daryl Hannah wearing a super cool white-ish vest jacket knitted by bulky yarn. I remembered that I brought that magazine because of the cover, and later found out that the pattern was not actually inside the magazine (!!). Years later, I saw this magazine again -- still liking the vest -- so I decided to ‘build’ the pattern my self. And here it is…it is different from the magazine, but I’m so proud of my first knitting design pattern. The tricky part is that I’ve never knitted a hood before, so I need to do a lot of reading to get to that part.

This is my first time to put a design together, so there are still a lot of rooms to improve.
Basically, it is a vest knit from the bottom to top in circular needles, to save time. Also, to avoid the potential thick seams that might result from joining chunky yarns together. In the pictures, I tried to do some decrease to ‘shape the waist’, but it turn out not that successful. Therefore, I did not include that in the pattern.

If you like this, and if you can successfully make one from this pattern. Let me know, I’ll be so happy =)