Over Christmas we were having lunch at a cafe, and my husband asked if I’d knit him a “hipster sweater vest”. He so rarely asks for knitted things, I got really excited and pulled up Ravelry that minute to start searching for patterns. When I saw katarina’s Argyll Vest, we both knew it was the perfect one. We walked up to the local knitting shop in Newtown and picked out the wool on the spot. We selected three different “heathered” colours of Morris Empire 4-ply. The only pattern mod I made was to make the body a bit longer, because Rodd has a very long torso. Since the neckline is meant to start at the top of a diamond, I had to decide ahead of time how much length I was going to add (so I could add it on at the bottom above the ribbing). And of course, you can’t knit intarsia in the round so I had to knit the front and back separately then sew them up afterwards. The diagonal lines - which I learned are called rakers - were embroidered on with Swiss darning.