Striped Vest Knitting Pattern
This vibrant and fun striped vest is the perfect project to add a pop of color to your wardrobe. Using colors gold, lagoon, bubblegum, and gingergo, you'll create a one-of-a-kind piece that's sure to turn heads.
Materials:
- Yarn: Sport weight yarn in the following colors: gold, lagoon, bubblegum, and gingergo
- Needles: US 4 / UK 8 / 3.5 mm and US 6 / UK 10 / 4 mm knitting needles
- Tape measure
- Scissors
- Tapestry needle
Gauge:
Using US 6 needles, 22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
Instructions:
- Using the gold yarn and US 4 needles, cast on 100 stitches.
- Work in garter stitch (knit every row) for 1 inch.
- Switch to lagoon yarn and continue in stockinette stitch (knit on right side, purl on wrong side) for 2 inches.
- Join bubblegum yarn and knit 1 row.
- Next row: *Knit 3, purl 3; repeat from * to end.
- Continue in this ribbing pattern for 2 inches.
- Switch to gingergo yarn and knit in stockinette stitch for 3 inches.
- Repeat color sequence until the piece measures 20 inches from the cast on edge, ending with a gingergo section.
- Shape armholes: Bind off 6 stitches at the beginning of the next 2 rows. Then decrease 1 stitch at each armhole edge every other row 3 times.
- Continue in pattern until the piece measures 14 inches from the armhole shaping.
- Shape neck: Bind off center 40 stitches and work each side separately.
- Decrease 1 stitch at the neck edge every row 5 times.
- Continue in pattern until the piece measures 20 inches from the cast on edge.
- Bind off all stitches.
- Sew side seams and weave in ends.
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