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Easy Cropped Vest Knitting Pattern

April 23, 2022 by Sarah White

This time of year isn’t a great one for knitting sweaters in the Northern Hemisphere, but I feel like knitting a vest would be appropriate no matter where you live in the world.

Little vests are a great extra layer whether you’re only a little cold or you need a bit of extra protection because it’s really colod outside.

The Tryst cropped vest from Kristen TenDyke is a great option for a vest you can slip over a button-down shirt or under a sweater depending on the weather where you live.

It uses worsted weight yarn and is available in 5 sizes up to a 46 inch bust. It’s worked flat and seamed and uses buttons to close at the front. Grab the free pattern from Kristen’s website.

[Photo: Kristen TenDyke.]

Looking for more Vest patterns to knit? Check out these Vest Knitting patterns on Etsy and these designs on the Sirdar Website.

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Comments

  1. Sandra Cornelia says

    April 28, 2022 at 10:06 am

    I want to order but NOT with paypal. Put in my charge card info but PayPal was the only option.

  2. Sandra Cornelia says

    April 29, 2022 at 8:46 am

    I would like to receive the crop vest pattern.

  3. Sarah White says

    May 2, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    It’s a free pattern on her website!

  4. Sarah White says

    May 2, 2022 at 8:53 pm

    If you are buying through Ravelry you should be able to use a credit card. But the pattern is also free on her website.

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Knit a Linen Stitch Hot Pad

Linen stitch is one of my favorite knitting stitch patterns that, every time I use it in a project, I think about how I don’t use it often enough. 

It’s an easy stitch to make, with slip stitches done with the yarn held to the front of the work on the right/front side and to the back on the wrong/back side, which makes the strand of yarn a visible part of the pattern. 

It also makes a fabric that is thick and looks kind of like a woven fabric.

I recently used linen stitch to make a double-thick pot holder, which I worked in a kind of interesting way. I didn’t want to have to do any sewing on the project, so I started it from a crochet cast on and picked up stitches from the side of the cast on to make the hot pad all in one piece in the round with the edge sealed. 

This requires working on two circular needles, which is another technique I don’t use that often and am always reminded how much I like it when I do. 

The combination of double thickness and the stitch pattern makes for a hot pad that’s already pretty thick, but I also added a bit of old towel to the inside before I closed up the end to make it super thick and extra protective for your surfaces. 

I found the engineering challenge of this construction method to be a lot of fun, but you could also just knit it as a tube (casting on twice as many stitches as I did) and sew up the ends by hand when the knitting is done. Either way you’ve got a useful and pretty addition to your kitchen, whether you work it in a solid color, stripes or as a stash busting project will all your cotton odd balls. 

You can grab the pattern over at Our Daily Craft, or check it out on Ravelry. 

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