The end of summer is the best time to study your wardrobe and make up for the lack of warm clothes. The cold season becomes a real gift for lovers to tie with thick yarn. Now you can put aside thin cotton, a hook and openwork cloths, because the time has come for wool, angora and mohair.
Practicality of warm vests
Knitted sweaters and pullovers, without a doubt, can be considered the most comfortable and warm types of clothing. However, a long vest is also in the top of the most popular products.
Sleeveless wrap is suitable for use instead of a jacket or cardigan, and is also indispensable for women who work in cool rooms. A long knitted vest is often left in the workplace and used as needed. In addition to practical benefits, such a maneuver helps to demonstrate to colleagues their taste and ability to wield knitting needles.
Vest without fastener
Thinking about which vest to tie, it is worth deciding on its purpose and its capabilities. Despite the fact that the work is not very difficult, a long vest made of thin thread may require quite a lot of time.
Faster than all others, you can make a product of thick yarn. At the same time, you can significantly simplify the task for yourself if you do not make a fastener. That is, the front part will not be separated by a bar, so you do not have to knit button loops, calculate their location and make complex buttonhole cuts.
Preparation for work
First of all, it is worth considering yarn selection. Since the main purpose of the model proposed above is heat conservation, the material must necessarily contain wool.
The optimal proportion is 50% wool, 50% acrylic or cotton. Then a long vest will not be heavy, but it can perfectly retain heat.
To make the pattern look the same, you need to use yarn in which a 100 gram skein contains no more than 250-300 meters. Each craftswoman chooses knitting needles herself, based on her own density of knitting. The standard recommendation for such a thread is No. 4.5 or 5. However, if the knitter usually works with a loose fabric, tool No. 3.5 can be used.
A pattern is not required here, since a long sleeveless vest is simply two rectangles with recesses for the neck.
Sample value
Many publications on the topic of knitting recommend that before starting work to perform a control sample, but rarely justify this step. Its essence is that after knitting a small fragment of the selected thread and according to the found pattern, the craftswoman can see how the material and the ornament are combined, as well as get information about the density of a particular pattern.
Possessing such information, you can correct errors on time (choose a new pattern or buy another yarn), as well as correctly calculate the number of loops for knitting a product.
So, measuring the finished sample, you need to record how many loops are included in 10 cm of the canvas in width and how many rows are 10 cm in height.
For example, these numbers are 15 loops and 13 rows. Now you should study the scheme and see how many loops form one rapport. In this case, this number is 18.
How to start knitting a vest
To start working on a product whose width will be 65 cm, you need to dial 98 loops. Of these, 54 will go to the formation of three rapports, the remaining 44 should be distributed on the sides (22 on each side). For example, take 10 loops to the bar (including the edge ones), and the remaining 12 loops to be performed with the front or wrong side.
You can also independently plan the location and number of rapports: enter not three, but four or five stripes of the pattern. This technique is good if you want to knit a long women's vest of large size.
The first few rows (no more than five) are performed with a garter stitch, then proceed to the formation of a pattern. Here you need to carefully monitor so that both planks at the edges of the paintings have the same number of loops.
They are knitted with a garter stitch, which prevents the folding of the finished fabric.
Following the above example, the distribution scheme of loops for knitting fabrics will be as follows:
1 P hem, 9 P garter stitch, 12 P front stitch (hosiery), 54 P according to the pattern (ornament), 12 P front stitch, 10 P garter stitch.
Neck
In the manufacture of this product, the most difficult step may be the formation of a smooth neck. For the formation of bevels, it is necessary to close the loops not immediately, but in a certain order:
- First, the loops from the central part of the web are closed or transferred to the auxiliary knitting needle.
- Then two shoulders are knitted separately.
- In each front row, one loop is cut from the neck side, continuing to form a flat edge from the armhole side.
- Then the rest of the shoulder is knitted evenly.
The depth of the neck on the front part is 5-7 cm, and on the back - 3 cm. For bevels, about 3-5 loops are usually distinguished.
Product assembly
The long vest shown in the photo has no side seams. If desired, this can be easily changed by simply stitching the necessary sections (from bottom to armhole). Then the shoulder seams are sutured. This is best done with a knitted seam, since the thread is quite thick.
If you decide to leave the product in this form, you should crochet the cords and attach them symmetrically to the canvases.
Having knitted a long vest with knitting needles, you should dial loops around the neck to circular knitting needles. To form a high collar, knit at least 18 cm with any rubber band. Given the ornament and the thickness of the yarn, the optimal choice is to choose a 2x2 elastic band.
The finished vest must be washed in warm water and dried when unfolded. This is the usual care of knitwear, and it should also be washed in the future.