Silver Lake Vest Pattern

A dear friend once told me if you can learn to carry home in your pocket, you will never be homesick. I knit this vest for my youngest son for Christmas when he was far from home. His favorite color is green. He wouldn’t be home until the next Christmas, so I wanted send home to him for Christmas and to be with him for the next year. I went to the mountains near our home and walked around Silver Lake, a small lake in Big Cottonwood Canyon. When our kids were little, we often would walk around Silver Lake on Sundays, and take watercolors and a picnic. We had a favorite boulder that we could all fit on, and we’d paint the lake or flowers or a moose wading in the water. That lake reminds me of our family in every season.So I went on a walk around Silver Lake and gathered leaves and grass and pine needles. I wanted to gather the colors of home. This vest has the pine trees, the sky, the aspen trees in the fall, the golden grass, the early snow on Sunset Peak, the bark on the bare trees and