Vest for Sean

I've been working on a vest for my son Sean. I wanted something plain, but elegant that I could add to. I came up with a Fair Isle type pattern to knit into the bottom above the ribbing that was based on a pattern on a mantlepiece that I saw in an architectural design book on Arts and Crafts houses in England. I love Arts and Crafts architecture! But I digress...

I'm using this basic pattern from Berroco for the vest:

Peter Easy

I'm using a cream acrylic yarn with tan, grey and black flecks for the body of the vest, with heather grey acrylic yarn for the ribbing, the neck and sleeve ribbing, and for the opposite color in the Fair Isle pattern.

This was pretty much my first attempt at working a color stranded pattern. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I don't want to strand anything more than 3 stitches across the back without twisting. It really keeps the strands nice and neat and not too loose. I knit the first row along the bottom carrying 4 stitches, and I really didn't like the way it looked on the reverse. I worry about the strands getting snagged, especially on a child's garment, so that's going to be my new personal color working law. No more than 3! lol