Great easy vest

This picture was to be at the end of my post...sorry.. this is my old free chair I painted yellow and made a simple little pillow for it.

This is a vest I just finished.  It is Burda 7399.I've had this fabric in my stash for about 4 years.  It is a butter color wool and rayon blend.  I love this color ...the reason why I bought it in the first place...but I don't like it next to my skin.  So a vest and tee worked great.  I have enough left over to make a great skirt.  Oh I purchased the fabric at Fashion Fabrics.com, my favorite online fabric source.

There is meant to be pockets in this vest, but I chose to eliminate them, I knew in this fabric they would end up being very droopy.  I however did keep the top stitching at the bottom that  forms the bottom of the would-be pocket.

Side view.  The back is shorter than the front and the piece is cut on the bias, so it hangs really nice.

Back view

The pattern called for forth inch ribbon for the ties, I didn't like that so I made ties out of bias strips of the fabric.

I bound all the edges inside with bias strips of lining that matched. All in all this was an easy vest  that looks great with a tee and jeans.