![]() The only thing I didn’t realize is that the fur fabric had a direction to it in which the fur laid flat. It’s hard to see, but I traced out the half-vest pattern, flipped it and traced again for the other front, then traced it back-to-back, flipped, for a piece to fit the back. I was happy with the shape so I traced it onto my fabric. I decided I wanted to make the neckline more sloped so marked off the changes on the pattern… I cut it out and checked against the vest. I knew I wanted to add some length to the bottom and the armhole so it would fit him longer, as well as lowering the neckline to a v-neck, so I made those changes on my template. ![]() I used my finger to push down then traced to know where the neckline in the middle lined up. I started by laying the vest on the paper and traced half of it. The only other thing you need is a vest that fits your child (or you!). I used some fur fabric my neighbor gave me, a sheet of newspaper, a sharpie & a pair of scissors, plus a sharp large-eyed needle, black acrylic yarn and white cotton yarn. I took photos throughout so if you want to make one, you can too. I promised I’d make him a viking vest, and yesterday I did just that. He stops strangers to point out his “viking vest”, but commented a few weeks ago how “it’s not a REAL viking vest, Mommy, because it has a zipper and REAL viking vests have buttons”. (Something about a 3 year old with tousled sleep hair in footie-pjs, amirite?) ![]() He’s worn it to school on back-to-back days, he’s worn it over his fall jacket, he wears it around the house, and on more times than I can count I check on him at night to find that he’s put it on over his pjs and worn it to sleep. The kids dressed as Avengers instead but Henri had it stuck in his mind that that was his viking vest and he has worn it non-stop ever since. All we had even close to a viking vest (like Hiccup wears in the movie) was a gray zippered sweatshirt-style vest. The kids share the helmet, and last month when it was time to pick costumes for ComicCon (which I think I also forgot to blog…crap) Henri REALLY wanted to wear the helmet and be a viking, but a quick search through the closets revealed that we didn’t have any viking clothes. (Jakob, you’ll remember, got the one I knitted for his birthday…which I think I never blogged. Jakob got a light-up viking helmet at the How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, and unfortunately when we brought Henri the next day they were all sold out of helmets, so he got a Toothless plushie instead. (It’s either viking or pirate, depending on the day). Not for Halloween, I mean he wants to be a viking in general. Henri has wanted to be a viking for a while now.
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