This is knit from a pattern in the now defunct Knit.1 magazine, from the single copy of it I bought back when I decided I could save some money by knitting my own clothes (and before my tastes in yarn got ahead of my budget 😂). The edition is from 2007 so it’s getting close to being a ‘vintage’ pattern… not sure how I feel about that though.

A page of Knit.1 magazine showing a preppy look; a female model with short hair wearing a dark cropped vest with a deep V-neck over a pale shirt and long red tie.

The yarns are: a plain black Debbie Bliss Blue Faced Leicester DK; and a single-ply variegated wool (also BFL) from Feltfusion. I was originally planning on making these two into an entrelac number of some kind, but the repeat on the purple yarn was too short for that, so I had to stick it on ice and wait for a future project to make use of it. This one, I think, works out quite nicely. I find variegated yarns like this a bit overpowering on their own, but mixing it with black slipped-stitch pattern is a nice way to temper the business.

A part-knit project with four balls of yarn arranged above it in an extremely rare moment of not being tangled.

The BFL DK also helps to give a bit more strenth (and a lot less pilling) to the single-ply; you get the inherent cosiness of the single-ply floof but with a bit more wearability.

A hand-knitted vest laid flat on a table. The neck, armholes, and waist are plain black, while the rest is a slipped-stitch pattern in dreamily shifting shades of blue, white, and purple.



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