Alice Brooks Mail Order Pattern 7355

As promised, I have more outfits from the same mail order pattern leaflet that we looked at last week. This week I have the flared pants and the vest and shorts outfit on the right in the photo below.

The shorts and pants were both variations on the bikini pattern that I did last week and were easy to do. I skipped the elastic on the waist again for both of them and they were done in cotton 8/4.

The surplice vest was a little different. I used some scrap yarn for this one. The back is a granny square and the two sides are triangles. The assembly wasn't quite clear to me but the photo above made it a little easier to see how the vest was supposed to look when finished so I could work backwards and make sense of the directions. There are only so many ways to make it work so it doesn't seem like it would be that complicated but somehow it didn't seem right the first time I laid the pieces out based on where the armholes needed to be. The tie is worked at the very end of the assembly across the bottom of the vest. The single crochet tie seems a little thick for the vest and probably could have just been a chain for the part that wasn't attached to the vest.

I think these turned out pretty well. Overall, I'm giving this week a 4.5 mostly because of the vest assembly.

I may have one project more from this leaflet; the dress almost done, After that, I'll be taking a break to work on holiday gifts. And then I need to figure out what to do next year...