Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

It seems there are some CIC knitters wanting the pattern for the vests I posted. Well, there is no real *pattern*! I just winged each one, but here's what I did:

I used super bulky yarn (or yarns held together to give a super bulky wt), about 6-10 ozs for each vest, at 2.25 sts/1" in stockinette.

I used US size 13 ckns. I only had the 29" length, so after I split the front and back, I just used another ckn to hold the sts, so I could use the size 13 and work back and forth.

For size 2 and 4, cast on 58/62 sts, so that there is an odd # for front and back to set up a v-neck. (Join, being careful not to twist sts.) Work a few rnds k1, p1 ribbing, then St st until the body is 6.5/8" long.

Split evenly for front and back, BO 2 sts each side on the back, then dec 1 / 2 sts each side on next row, work St st until the back measures 5.5/6" then BO.

The front gets split for the v-neck with the center front st put onto a holder. Each side gets the same underarm shaping as the back and 3/4 sts decreased on each front for the v-neck. Work even until same length as the back then BO. Seam the shoulders, then do 2 rows sc edging around the armholes and v-neck edges.

I used a size N crochet hook and worked 2 sc for each 3 rows and 1 sc for each st around the edges. On the 2nd row, I'd either skip over the "inside corner" sc or I'd work a HDC over the 2 sc so to curve the edging.

I also skipped over the center top shoulder sc on the 2nd row - again to curve the edges more anatomically.

I also skipped over the center v-neck sc on the 2nd row, so it wouldn't pucker.

In preparation, *all* I did was group together leftover yarns in coordinating colors, until I had about 10 ozs worth. If I only had a little of some colors, then I made the vest with striping in a small area, or I did just 1 row of striping between 3 or 4 rows background color. If you have a scale, you can weigh up your yarns and be able to figure out, more or less, how much of each color to use.