Minimalist mini vest

Here it is

As we continue living in Canary Islands, my need for knitted garments is minimal. On the other hand, I still have some balls of yarn bought years ago, purely because they were beautiful. The knitting process pleases and soothes me, so I keep making stuff I don’t need.

This time, I decided to make a one-ball project with the last remaning Schoppel-Wolle Laceball. At least I think, I may even say hope, it was the last one. As the name indicate, it is lace-weight self striping yarn, 100 grams per ball.

The project itself was extremely simple — knitting in rounds, ribbing 1x1, till I had very little yarn left. I divided the remains in two to make straps. I still have about 10 grams worth of yarn left.

Things I learned while making the project:

1. Cast off with i-cord, which you can see on the lower edge of the vest. Note to self — i-cord needs to have less rows than the ribbing has stitches, otherwise it creates a visible ruff effect. Maybe next time I will try to work out the correct ratio.

Casting off with a needle

2. Cast off with a needle, which I used for the straps. Creates very neat elastic edge. The edge is flat, unlike i-corded one.

Finished edge

Details were joined together with a crocheting hook.

Possible styling

As the vest is just a cylinder with some straps attached, it can be worn as a circular scarf.

And that’s all for now.

I still have a few balls of yarn left, so stay tuned.

Knitting pics on Shutterstock — here.

circular ribbed scarf

How cute is my model? Well, he is of unbearable cuteness, if you ask me.

I can't explain why I keep knitting those scarfs. We still live on the Canary Islands, and this winter, for example, presented no reasons to muffle up.

One possible reason is that I still have some Schoppel Wolle Lace Ball yarn. I still have some left, btw, so there might be more scarfs coming up, who knows.

In process.

As before, the tendency of stockinette stitch to curl in and the reverse stockinette stitch to curl out was used to create ribs of different colors. The scarf was knitted in stripes of stockinette stitch and reverse stockinette stitch from two different balls of yarn. One has a gradient from cream to very dark brown, another bright teal to grey. Each side of the scarf has its own main gradient but I can twist it so that they both show.

Like this.

Height of each stripe is 7 rows. Two 100 g balls were almost completely used and I ended up with 27 stripes altogether. The circumference of the scarf is about two meters. It can go quite a few times around my neck.

Our teddy is wearing it wound three times around his.

Just a couple more pics

And here I stop

Knitting pics on Adobe stock — here

two-sided ribbed circular scarf

This is my second attempt to make a two-sided scarf using long-section dyed wool. First time I tried to make one, I bought just one 50 g skein, which was enough to make a collar, but it was not what I wanted.