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I love vests for springtime! Cool mornings and warm afternoons make it difficult to pick out an outfit in the morning. Vests are the perfect layering piece; just warm enough and they look so great over jeans! For this design I wanted a sporty vest in an interesting stitch pattern.
Afraid of zippers? I know I am. It seems like every time I have sewn in a zipper (even just regular sewing on a sewing machine) has ended with me in tears. I was determined to have a zipper in this vest and I scoured all my knitting books for advice on sewing them. I found next to nothing! All the patterns I could find with zippers had rather vague instructions that I found disappointing. But, I have found the answer! I found an awesome blog post by Caro Sheridan (teacher of the awesome Craftsy class Shoot It!) about sewing zippers into hand-knits and I have now overcome my fear!
Lancero Vest is a zip front vest worked in textured stitch patterns of diagonal lines and broken rib. It is worked in a worsted weight yarn in one piece from the bottom up. The stitch patterns are easy to work; the pattern rows become intuitive after a few rows, and all the wrong side rows are purled. Pattern includes full instructions for installing the zipper. Vest is modeled with 1” negative ease in the chest.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Chest: 32 (34, 37, 39, 42)[44, 47, 49, 52]”
Length: 21 (21.25, 21.5, 22.25, 22.5)[22.75, 23.25, 23.5, 24]”
MATERIALS
Queensland Collection Super Aussie (100% merino; 109 yds/100m per 50 g ball); color 108; balls 5 (6, 6, 7, 7)[8, 8, 9, 10]. Approximate yardage needed: 540 (575, 630, 690, 750)[800, 870, 920, 990] yards
NEEDLES
US #8/5 mm 16” and 24” circular needles, plus extra needle for three needle bind off
NOTIONS REQUIRED
7 stitch markers
3 stitch holders
22” separating zipper
Sewing thread to match yarn
Sewing needle
Tapestry needle to weave in ends
2 blocking wires
Pins
GAUGE
16 sts and 26 rows = 4” in Left Diagonal stitch
SKILLS NEEDED
long tail cast on
three needle bind off
short rows
working in the round
picking up stitches
k2tog
ssk
p2tog
ssp
hand sewing (for zipper)
$6.00
Afraid of zippers? I know I am. It seems like every time I have sewn in a zipper (even just regular sewing on a sewing machine) has ended with me in tears. I was determined to have a zipper in this vest and I scoured all my knitting books for advice on sewing them. I found next to nothing! All the patterns I could find with zippers had rather vague instructions that I found disappointing. But, I have found the answer! I found an awesome blog post by Caro Sheridan (teacher of the awesome Craftsy class Shoot It!) about sewing zippers into hand-knits and I have now overcome my fear!
Lancero Vest is a zip front vest worked in textured stitch patterns of diagonal lines and broken rib. It is worked in a worsted weight yarn in one piece from the bottom up. The stitch patterns are easy to work; the pattern rows become intuitive after a few rows, and all the wrong side rows are purled. Pattern includes full instructions for installing the zipper. Vest is modeled with 1” negative ease in the chest.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
Chest: 32 (34, 37, 39, 42)[44, 47, 49, 52]”
Length: 21 (21.25, 21.5, 22.25, 22.5)[22.75, 23.25, 23.5, 24]”
MATERIALS
Queensland Collection Super Aussie (100% merino; 109 yds/100m per 50 g ball); color 108; balls 5 (6, 6, 7, 7)[8, 8, 9, 10]. Approximate yardage needed: 540 (575, 630, 690, 750)[800, 870, 920, 990] yards
NEEDLES
US #8/5 mm 16” and 24” circular needles, plus extra needle for three needle bind off
NOTIONS REQUIRED
7 stitch markers
3 stitch holders
22” separating zipper
Sewing thread to match yarn
Sewing needle
Tapestry needle to weave in ends
2 blocking wires
Pins
GAUGE
16 sts and 26 rows = 4” in Left Diagonal stitch
SKILLS NEEDED
long tail cast on
three needle bind off
short rows
working in the round
picking up stitches
k2tog
ssk
p2tog
ssp
hand sewing (for zipper)
$6.00
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