The Vine Lace Vest by Cecily Glowik MacDonald is a free pattern from the Classic Elite Yarns Web-Letter Free Pattern Archive.
The Vine Lace Vest is a perfect project for summer knitting! I used Luna by Cascade Yarns, a 100% cotton, aran-weight yarn. I picked up a pack of ten skeins on sale from Yarns Untangled last year. This year I decided to use them! Since I don’t want to stop knitting during Toronto’s hot summers, I just switch fibres and projects. Earlier this year I finished my Leiden Tee, which I had cast on at the end of last summer. Even though this is an aran weight yarn, I didn’t find knitting with it made my hands hot or sweaty. Hurray for 100% cotton!
The pattern includes five sizes, from a bust of 33″ all the way to 63″. I decided to knit the Large size, which has a bust of 48″. However, I think I could have sized down one size. Due to my regularly loose gauge, I sized down my needles. I used 3.0 mm needles for the ribbing and 4.5 mm needles for the lace instead of the suggested 4.0 mm and 5.5 mm needles. By the time I finished knitting, I had used just 7.6 skeins, or 570 m of yarn!
The construction has you knit the back first, from the ribbed hem up to the shoulders. Then you cast off the neck, and knit the left front down to the ribbed hem. After that, you knit the right front down to the ribbed hem. After all the knitting is complete, you sew the front and back together at the sides, leaving arm holes. Next, you knit the ribbed front band and then the ribbed armhole bands. With my gauge, I knit 25 rows of ribbing on the front and back> I also knit 21 lace repeats to ensure the front and back were even. For the front band, I knit 20 rows of 2×2 ribbing.
The lace was a simple nine-stitch, four-row repeat that I could easily memorize. Since I used aran weight yarn, the project knit up quite quickly! However, as always the case for me, I love to knit but hate weaving in ends. Since each skein is only 75 m, I have a lot of ends to weave in!
Get the free pattern for the Vine Lace Vest on Ravelry here.
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