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Hey, guys! I can’t believe it’s been an entire month since I posted here. I’ve been posting only about my crochet projects and I was really slow with this one. Even when I finished, I was too lazy to just put together a post about it. I’m glad I finally get round to it.
Sweater vests are versatile articles of clothing that can be styled in numerous ways, and they’ve become quite trendy now. Well, I’ve been loving the look recently and so I decided to crochet one. Actually, I wanted a loose one. Guess what? It didn’t turn out as loose as I wanted it to. In fact, it’s not exactly tight because I had to make a number of adjustments.
Honestly, this project stressed me out. I frogged so many times that I lost count. Anyways, I’m glad it’s all over and that the vest doesn’t look like something that went through a lot — ’cause it did.
Well, I decided to use the Moss stitch. I liked how it looked and felt it would be perfect for the vest so I tried it for the first time.
The plan was to do the piece in two panels: the front and the back. Starting with the front panel, I began with a ribbing long enough to go from one waist to the other. Then, I started to crochet upwards. Here, I encountered my first problem; the project began to curve. After so many tries and so many frogging, I decided to crochet the body and the ribbing separately and then join them.
When it was time to start shaping the armholes, I had to add two columns of stitches to each side in order to make the piece wider.
Next, I continued crocheting upwards. I left some inches on each side and did a few lines of reduction. Then, it was time to shape the v-neck. I located the middle of the row, and started reduction there. The reduction was only in the middle; the edge was straight. I did that for the right side and left side. When I’d reached my desired length, I began the back panel.
It was the same process for the back panel, except that after the few rows of reduction at the edges (the arm hole), I didn’t need to do reductions in the middle because I wasn’t going for a v-neck. I simply crocheted straight from the right-hand side to the left-hand side until it was left two rows to complete it. I ended it by crocheting the remaining two rows about 1.5 inches from the edge. This was to prevent the neck at the back from being raised after the ribbing.
Done with the front and back panels, I joined them together at the shoulder then proceeded to stitch the ribbing I’d started with to the bottom of the front panel. I had only one ribbing, so I had to crochet a second for the back panel and stitch them together.
The last step was to stitch both sides of the two panels together and then crochet a ribbing for the neck and another for the arm holes. I didn’t do them unattached to the crochet piece like I did at the bottom, but rather , attached to the piece. This way, I didn’t need to stitch then in place when I finished them. Finally, my sweater vest was completed.
front view
I used up five whole balls of 40g yarn and half of another for the project. I was super relieved when I finished because I’d gotten tired of the vest. Also, it looked good despite all the alterations I made. Well, I’m still learning, so I won’t always make the mistakes I made with this project. Next time will be better.
Guys, I decided to style the sweater vest with a black turtleneck bodysuit underneath and a green skirt. What do you think about it?
front view
back view
Till next time, guys. Ciao!
