Hello everyone. Welcome to a beautiful Friday. How is the weather over there? It rained a bit this morning here, so it’s a bit cold over here and I love it. My cardigan is doing so much in helping with the cold. The hexagon cardigan I made some time ago has slowly become my favorite. I wear it almost every day at work, the compliments I get are another bonus.
Today I am excited to share a checkered sweater vest I made recently. This was born out of my sole desire to make something different. A vest I can wear on a day that is not so cold yet will keep me warm on cold days too. The checkered pattern is one I have wanted to try for some time so I decided to do that.
I started by making the ribbing for the sweater. I made a chain of 66, I didn’t use a tape for this which later turned out to be a serious mistake as I later found out it wasn’t big enough to accommodate my breast area. I’ll explain how I fixed that as we go on. So, I made double crochets on all 66 chains, the next row involved 2 sets of front post double crochets followed by 2 sets of back post double crochets. I did a total of 4 rows of the ribbing.
For the main body of the sweater, I made 8 sets of boxes and switched between colors for each box. Each of the boxes has 8 stitches each - I alternated between single and double crochet between stitches. I continued in that pattern until it was time to create the armhole that was when I realized the mistake I made.
The only way to correct that was to keep increasing the length without any reduction on the sides and later on add the space for the armhole. So I continued the pattern until I had my desired length for the vest.
To create that armhole space, I added one extra box on each side of the first 3 boxes. It looked a bit rough but not necessarily noticeable. Afterward, I joined the shoulders, and sides, made the edges neater, and then did the collar and my vest was ready to wear.
I like the checkered pattern and how it looks in the end. I hope you like it too.
Thanks for stopping by❤