Ask Chelsea Porter about the moment she tossed her handmade vest on stage at the Benson Boone concert this week and she can’t provide an answer.

“I literally blacked out,” she said from her home sewing studio . “I don’t even remember throwing it. I just know that it got to him!”

The mom, quilter and megafan had one hope for the sold-out show. Get Benson Boone to wear her vest. Instead, she got so much more.

A two-week labor of love and livestreams

It was about two weeks before the concert that Porter got the wild idea to make the vest. And she shared the entire journey on her social media channels.

“My followers were so involved in it. We went live for like two hours just to have people give me their input on what fabric to use. Two hours just nailing down the fabric. That’s not e

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