Wuv Vest

This is a deliciously squishy seed stitch garment that will make a little one even more huggable than usual – especially when you get a look at the cabled heart motif on the back! It’s a layering piece, which can donned quickly and easily for extra warmth. Unisex construction means that you can re-sew the buttons on either the left or right band whenever you may want to switch.

Skills required

• Knitting and purling
• Increasing and decreasing
• Chart reading
• Cabling
• Picking up stitches
• Three-needle bind-off
• Working small circumferences in the round (i.e. DPNs, magic loop, or 2-circular methods)

Size information

• 12-month: to fit 18” chest; finished chest circumference 20”; finished length 9.5”
• 18-month: to fit 19” chest; finished chest circumference 21”; finished length 10”
• 2-year: to fit 21” chest; finished chest circumference 23”; finished length 10.5”
• 4-year: to fit 23” chest; finished chest circumference 26”; finished length 11.5”
• 6-year: to fit 25” chest; finished chest circumference 28”; finished length 12.5”

(Vest is intended to be waist-length)

Yarn requirements

• 12-month: about 165 yards
• 18-month: about 182 yards
• 2-year: about 206 yards
• 4-year: about 248 yards
• 6-year: about 291 yards

Other materials needed

• 4.5mm needles: 1 set of straights, 1 set of DPNs
• Cable needle
• 2 stitch markers
• 4 stitch holders
• 2 buttons, 0.5 to 0.75” diameter
• Spare length of yarn about 32” long
• Tapestry needle

Gauge

16 stitches and 28 rows to 4" measured over seed stitch pattern