It has been over a year since I made this vest, but I never got around to posting it. I wanted something simple that would knit up very quickly and that I could wear with anything. So I bought myself some super bulky yarn in beige for Christmas and would have been done the same day if I didn’t run out of yarn. I needed two more skeins, but all the stores were either sold out or stopped carrying it, so I had to order it and wait another two weeks to finish my cool vest. It’s quite bulky, but so so warm at the office. I loved it with my navy button-down shirt, but the fabric of the shirt didn’t get along with the vest’s fibers, which ended up clinging to the shirt in a very uncool way. So white shirts that are not as stiff and a plum blouse have gone much better with it since.
Directions
It’s a really easy knit, so I don’t know if it needs a pattern. Basically:
- Cast on in multiples of 10 (I had 120 stitches)
- Join start to end for knitting in the round
- Repeat *k6, p4* for 4 rows
- Repeat *cable the 6 knit stitches (3-3), p4*
- Repeat *k6, p4* for 3 rows
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 until desired length is reached from armpits to hem
- Split the vest into back, front left, and front right (the front is split in the middle of a cable, so 3 knit stitches for each side)
- On the back, continue cable pattern with the exception of a garter stitch on the 2 edge stitches on each side
- On the fronts, continue cable pattern with the same garter stitches as the back AND begin decreasing the purls in the front (knit the 3 knit stitches in stockinette)
- When the purl stitches end, decrease the 3 knit stitches one by one so they “merge” into the adjacent cables
- When fronts and back reach the shoulder, start at the outer edges and bind off both front and back together
- Bind off the center stitches on the back on their own since they will not be attached to the front
I am a slow knitter, but with the easy pattern and bulky yarn, it only took me a few hours of actual knitting time.
Here are links to this project on Ravelry and Pinterest.
