About the color I'm not worried - my MIL bought the yarn herself. I hope she likes the pattern. But so far she liked what I made for her (not that many). She's from a generation where every girl learned all the fiber crafts so she at least knows how much time it takes to make something. Which helps with appreciation.

And it's done, washed and dried. Grew a bit (I hung it up to dry), it's no more the length of XS, but it would grow to that length anyway (mostly alpaca and cotton), so that's okay, better knowing now what it would turn into anyway.

The only unknown is how the yarn will stand up to wear and tear. The cast on in the second picture looks already a bit fuzzy.

Shoulder seams are closed with my favorite bind off for connecting live sts.

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It's an interesting mix between grey and mauve, depending on light.

Button band done, buttons sewn on. I used a sock yarn that somewhat matches the color of the vest. I didn't dare use the original yarn.

It's now been washed and is waiting to be dry.

I might be a bit biased (because I don't really like the yarn) but it already looked a bit worn around the cast on. And I definitely haven't put a lot of wear and tear on the project - one week of knitting, nearly all of it at home, not carrying it around.

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One of the reasons why I don't like knitting with thicker yarns: so many ends to weave in.

6 balls, 2 knots adding additional ends, cutting yarn and starting again at a different point. It's about 20 ends. And with heavier yams it's more difficult to find a good place to hide the ends.

Meh.

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looks stunning

The body of the vest is finished - I had a day off of work yesterday and dedicated most of that to this project.

I've now used exactly 5 of the 6 cakes, with only the button band missing I should be good.

I know I have a lot of buttons somewhere, I just don't remember where I put them but I could find these and I think they look nice and have a good size - not to fiddly and not to heavy.

Next: picking up sts

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Yeah, I was thinking that, too. While I shorten the whole garment quite a bit I'm keeping the armholes quite large.

Thank you

Yeah, 5.5 mm / US 9 needles will do that.

I don't like working with such large needles, but at least there's good progress on them.

Bottom part finished.

I'm using this pattern https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=10480&cid=19, size M but only 50 cm long as my MIL has gotten very tiny (she wasn't tall to being and now she's close to 90).

I've joined the 3 bottom pieces after finishing the vent because I definitely don't want to sew with this yarn. Now about 30 rows until the armholes.

The yarn changes color depending on light - it's just the picture that makes it look different.

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It's 4 hours from my home so I don't really care about the store. And they probably don't really care about my opinion ...

But you're right, maybe I should say something.

It does split, and in a quite nasty way. I started with knit picks needles but had to switch to the more blunt addi ones.

It's not fun to knit with. A yarn store selling this yarn to a very elderly woman who obviously hasn't knit in a long time is not one I'd recommend.

As she picked the yarn herself I'm at least sure she'll like the color. The pattern I picked is a style she often wears.

But I'll know at the beginning of May when we visit.

The basic stitch pattern is one of my go to's

row 1: k
row 2: k1,p1

Pretty easy to knit, pretty to look at