Knitting for boys sleeveless knitting needles pleases the mother's heart and allows you to put your knitting skills into practice. Given the small size and simple cut of children's vests, they can be made pretty quickly.
Material selection
A sleeveless jacket for a boy is knitted for those cases when it is difficult to predict the weather. For example, they put it on for summer evening walks, take it with them on a picnic, or use it in cool rooms. The beauty of this clothing is that it warms perfectly, but does not constrain the movements of the child. He can play, draw and do whatever he wants.
However, a vest is not a sweater, so you should not knit it from very warm yarn. Yarn 100% wool is not the best option. Such a product would be impractical: the body will be hot, and hands cold.
To knit a sleeveless jacket with knitting needles for a boy it is best from yarn, in which about 50% of the wool, and the rest falls on cotton or bamboo. Wool with acrylic can also be used, but synthetic fiber can contribute to increased perspiration.
Simple vest for beginner knitters
The photo at the beginning of the article shows a sleeveless jacket for a boy. Using knitting needles, such a product is very simple to perform: the pattern repeat consists of four loops and four rows.
This ornament makes it easy to cut the loops to form an armhole and neck. A diagram is shown in the figure with a pattern.
To find out the density of knitting, you should perform a control sample and calculate how many loops (in width) and rows (in height) per 10 cm of fabric.
The data obtained will allow you to work with the pattern, since it will be known how many loops (P) you need to dial at the beginning, how many rows (P) to knit in height and when to perform the reduction.
Getting Started: Part Transferred
Getting started:
- First of all, you should dial the number of P. calculated in advance on the knitting needles.
- Then 7-10 P is knitted with a garter stitch, which provides only facial loops (PL) in all rows and does not allow the fabric to curl.
- Next, you should turn to the diagram and perform the first P pattern: remove the edge, perform the LP, then the PI (wrong loop). This sequence must be repeated until the end of R.
- The second (wrong) P is made according to the pattern: if on the needle of the medicinal product, it is knitted by the medicinal product, if the IP - then, accordingly, the IP is performed. At this stage, the pattern resembles knitting gum 1: 1.
- Third P: all P match the LP.
- Fourth P: all P perform IP.
The first strip of the pattern is ready. Next, you need to repeat the execution of all rows from the first to the fourth.
Armholes and neck
When the sleeveless jacket for the boy with knitting needles will be tied to the armhole line, it is time to proceed to the reduction of P:
- First, you need to close several Ps on each side of the part so that protrusions of two centimeters are formed.
- Next, you need to knit, observing the pattern, but in each facial P you need to cut two loops 3-4 times: one at the beginning and one at the end. Decrease occurs when two P knit together. As a result, an armhole of such a form will be obtained, as indicated on the pattern.
- Then you should knit evenly, without contractions, until the detail of the front end gets the desired length minus five centimeters (neck depth).
- Then in the center of the fabric immediately close or transfer to the knitting pin such an amount of P that corresponds to the width of the neck minus four centimeters.
Further work is carried out separately with the right and left shoulder:
- Right shoulder - to form a rounded neck, bevels should be made and four times reduced, one P on the right in each front R. The left edge of the canvas remains flat.
- The left shoulder is knitted in the same way, but contractions are performed in a mirror order.
The loops of the finished part are transferred to a thick thread or knitting needle.
Backrest part, product assembly
The second part of the work - the back - fits like the first. The only difference is the finer neck. Its depth should be not 5, but 3 centimeters. This means that after the formation of the armhole, the part should be knitted to a height that is two centimeters larger than the similar section of the part. Next, the closing of the loops and the formation of bevels are performed.
For assembly, open loops on the shoulders of the product are compared and sewn with a knitted seam. Side seams are also performed with a needle. Loops are formed along the neck on circular knitting needles and they are tied with a garter pattern.
The armholes are tied with the same method. If the craftswoman has crochet skills, she can use them to process the neck and armhole.
The finished product is steamed with an iron or washed in warm water.
Sleeveless shirt for a boy with knitting needles: a scheme for knitting braids
The photo below shows a vest with a pattern of braids. Such a product fits in almost the same way as described above, but the pattern itself is much more complicated.
It is suitable for knitters with some experience, since it is easy to get confused in weaving braids.
The figure shows a pattern of parts of the front and back.
The pattern consists of a central wide braid and side narrow braids. Such a sleeveless jacket for a boy with knitting needles is knitted as a real decoration for a children's spring wardrobe and can become a deserved pride of a craftswoman.