Anjou Vest

1 post 5 knitlog entries Feb 2026

Finished February 23, 2026 Anjou Vest Cute as buttons, and buttons are cute Read the project post →

The knitting journal

From cast-on to bind-off, oldest first.

  1. Love this vest pattern and the idea of using variegated yarn as CC. I could not resist the beautiful colour of Tensen and that’s why this pattern comes to my mind. I knitted three swatch actuall: Dark orange as MC …
  2. I casted on yesterday and almost finished the back yoke, but I decided to frog and start over because it looks too busy. The red-orange GENMOU yarn is still too thin compared to the Noro yarn, which has really …
  3. Finished the right front after starting over.
  4. Finished the left front.
  5. It expanded quite a bit after blocking. I also reknitted the armhole using US 7 needles instead of US 8. After blocking the size is almost the same as the pattern size 2: 92cm bust. It looks super cute and OMG I …