Wednesday Addams Vest Knitting Pattern

We are a little slow to be watching it in our household, but I love all the knit and crochet projects I see inspired by the Wednesday series that came out a few months ago. I have seen so many cute Wednesday/Enid crochet sweaters (where half is black and white and half is pastel rainbow) and, of course, variations on the black and white vests and tops Wednesday wears throughout the show.

Wednesday wears a couple of different black and white vests in the show. The knit one is a basic checkerboard and can be seen in episode 7 of the show. It’s a boxy sweater vest with ribbing on the armholes that’s white on one side and black on the other. The ribbing on the V-neck is also half white and half black.

Laura Rachelle has a video tutorial showing how she made her version of the Wednesday sweater vest, which she constructed in columns of alternating black and white squares that she stitched together before picking up the stitches for the ribbing.

This avoids having to do intarsia but if you’re comfortable with that you can also work the front and back separately from the bottom up (she suggests working in the round but doing intarsia flat is a lot easier).

She quickly walks through how she developed a pattern that fit her, so you’ll need to determine your gauge and figure out what size you need your squares to be in order for the project to fit you.

If you don’t want to do all that, there are some pattern options with sizing done for you, like the Day of the Week sweater vest by Jenny Kiefer. This pattern uses worsted weight yarn and the intarsia method, and is available in five sizes. You can get the free download on Ravelry.

Or try Feels Like Wednesday, a bulky vest that comes in three sizes as a free pattern from We Are Knitters. There’s also the Wednesday Checkered Vest from Wiam’s Crafts, which comes in four sizes and uses worsted weight yarn.

[Photo: Laura Rachelle.]

Not too long ago I did a test knit for another designer that was for a cabled cardigan. It’s really cozy and nice but it just about broke me in a ton of different ways. I couldn’t get gauge, which I suppose is my own problem, but mainly I was somehow both bored and forced to pay attention at the same time.

Because it used the same cable all over, I always had to know what row I was on, but nine out of ten of those rows, nothing in particular was going on. So I couldn’t stop paying attention, but what I needed to attend to was boring.

It may have ruined me for knitting cabled sweaters, but maybe I just need something that’s more engaging. Like this Modern Aran Cardigan pattern from Lion Brand Yarn.

This is a reworking of an old pattern from their archives, and you can tell that form the classic look of the cables and the oversized feel (nothing cropped about this one!). It has allover cables, but like a classic Aran sweater it’s not the same cable, so you’ll have to pay attention to what row you’re on and what cable turns happen for which cables on that row.

Because of this, it’s considered an intermediate knitting pattern, but if you’re comfortable working from multiple charts at once it shouldn’t be a problem for you. There are three different charts and seven different cable moves.

Also because the pattern is so big and boxy there are only two sizes available, with a finished chest measurement of either 49 or 63 inches (that’s 124.5 or 160 cm). It’s up to you to decide how much ease you would like and whether that will work for your body.

The pattern uses worsted weight yarn (and calls for another classic, Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool). It calls for six buttons and includes pockets to make it extra cozy.

This one looks like a great winter project to make and to wear if you’re up for a bit of a challenge. You can grab the free pattern or buy a kit with the yarn needed direct from Lion Brand Yarn.

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn]

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