Instructions for the Two-Tone Crochet Vest
Sizes
34/36 (40/42) 46/48
You Will Need
- Yarn (70% baby alpaca wool, 30% polyamide; 225 m / 50 g) – 150 (200) 200 g burgundy and 100 (150) 150 g gray
- 4.5 mm crochet hook
- 4.5 mm circular knitting needles
- 5 buttons (about 28 mm diameter)
Patterns and Charts
Main Pattern
Number of stitches is a multiple of 4 + 3.
Work according to the chart. Start with the stitches before the repeat, repeat the pattern repeat continuously, and end with the stitches after the repeat.
Work rows 1-6 once, then repeat rows 3-6 continuously, paying attention to the color indications next to the row numbers.
Ribbing
After casting on, start with 1 wrong-side row: edge stitch, * 1 purl, 2 knit, 1 purl, repeat from *, edge stitch. On right-side rows, work stitches as they appear.
Gauge
14.5 sts x 8.5 rows = 10 x 10 cm, worked in main pattern.
Note! Work all bands on the finished piece at the end. Arrows on the schematic = direction of work.
Schematic
Instructions
Back
With burgundy yarn, make a chain of 67 (75) 83 ch + 3 turning ch and work in main pattern.
After 66 cm = 56 rows, leave the center 25 (27) 29 sts for the neckline and finish both sides separately.
After 67 cm = 57 rows from the beginning, finish work with 21 (24) 27 sts.
Left Front
With burgundy yarn, make a chain of 31 (35) 39 ch + 3 turning ch and work in main pattern.
After 60 cm = 51 rows from the beginning, decrease for the neckline along the left edge 1 x 6 sts, then in every row another 1 x 3 (4) 4 sts and 1 x 1 (1) 2 sts; to do this, skip stitches at the beginning of the row by working slip stitches, and leave stitches at the end of the row. At the same height as the back, finish work on the remaining 21 (24) 27 shoulder sts.
Right Front
Work as the left front, but mirrored.
Finishing
Sew the shoulder seams.
With burgundy yarn, pick up 58 (66) 74 sts on circular needles along the upper 20 (22) 24 cm of the side edges, including the shoulder seams, and work 3 cm of ribbing for the armhole bands. Then bind off in pattern.
Sew the side seams and the armhole band seams.
With burgundy yarn, pick up 34 (38) 42 sts along the lower edges of the fronts and 74 (82) 90 sts along the edge of the back; work 4 cm of ribbing on all 142 (158) 174 sts for the band. Then bind off in pattern.
Pick up 86 sts on circular needles along the front edges and the short sides of the band, and work ribbing for the bands.
On the right front band, 1.5 cm from the cast-on edge, work 5 buttonholes in the next right-side row as follows: bind off 2 sts each, then cast them on again in the next row. Work the bottom buttonhole 24 sts from the edge, and the next 4 spaced 12 sts apart. When the band measures 3 cm, bind off all stitches in pattern.
With burgundy yarn, pick up 70 sts on circular needles along the neckline edge and along half of the short sides of the bands on the inside; work 8.5 cm of ribbing for the collar. Bind off, and sew on the buttons.
