chunky-knit-pattern – tracey doxey

A Little Harvest of Yarn… and a Giveaway! 🍂🧶

I have just finished my fourth Chunky Knit Vest from my easy to follow pattern, and I absolutely love how different it feels from the others. These yarns came from the mystery bag I bought last week called “Harvester Pie”, but as I knitted, I kept thinking the colours were more like butterscotch, honeycomb, autumn leaves, toasted caramel, warm rich autumn colours. When I look at yarn for this pattern, I always have my favourites – every stripe seemed to tell its own little story. I always save my very favourites for the neck and arm pit ribs…

The beauty of this pattern is that there is no right or wrong way to choose your colours AND I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A YARN GIVEAWAY FOR ONE PERSON TO KNIT THEIR OWN CHUNKY KNIT VEST FROM THE LEFT OVERS OF MY LAST 2 VESTS.

🎉 Yarn Giveaway!

To celebrate this latest vest, I’d love one of you to create your own version.

The remaining yarns from my Harvester Pie collection and the previous vest (pictured below) are going to One winner who will receive the bundle of leftover yarns shown in the photograph—perfect for creating a beautifully individual vest of your own.

There is a mix of pure wool, Rowan felted tweed, lopi, and acrylic. Enough to make your own vest by plying the yarns together in whatever way you choose to create your own Chunky Knit Vest. The pattern gives ideas on what yarns to ply.

All you need to do is purchase my Chunky Knit Vest Pattern between 15th July and 31st July, and you’ll automatically be entered into the draw. There will be one lucky winner. The pattern is £6 on Ravelry

Link to Pattern is below.

Chunky Knit Vest Pattern on Ravelry

To enter

Purchase the Chunky Knit Vest Pattern between 15 July and 31 July.
Everyone who purchases the pattern during those dates will automatically be entered.
One winner will be chosen after the closing date. I will draw one winner at 6pm on 31^st July

I will announce the winner on Instagram – @traceydoxey and email the winner too.

The only thing I’ll ask is that the winner pays the postage to their country, wherever they are in the world.

Thank you so much for all your enthusiasm for this pattern already. Seeing your colour choices in the projects in Ravelry and in the comments on Instagram has made me really happy. Seeing your own interpretations is one of the greatest joys of designing something like this. Every vest has its own personality, and every knitter brings their own unique selves to it.

Every vest becomes a reflection of the yarn you already have, the colours you love, and the choices you make along the way. No two will ever be the same, and I think that’s what makes knitting from stash so wonderfully exciting. This offer is a different type of stash – it is mine that I am offering to give away.

Happy knitting,

🧶🍂💕

Here is the Ravelry pattern link again

Chunky Knit Vest pattern on Ravelry

More photos on Instagram

Hi, I thought I would Spotlight one of my patterns that I was designing and knitting this time last year.

It is called the Chunky Knit Vest and that’s exactly what it is.

Quick link to Chunky Knit Vest pattern on Ravelry is here

It is a very quick and easy knit vest to knit using stash yarn and large 12mmUK needles. It flies off the needles with great speed – mine took me three days to knit from beginning to end. It is something to love, something lovely to knit and very useful by using up your stash yarn – that you also bought because you loved it.

This vest is made up of chunky yarn by playing 3 to 6 yarns together to make a really nice fat yarn. Please be aware that what you make with your plied yarn maybe thicker or thinner than what I plied because it is all random but totally works out in the end because we knit by length. Here are some visual examples from my swatch book of the yarns that I used.

For a yarn example, you can see here I used 4 strands of mohair together with 1 strand of Lettlope or two strands of orange mohair with five strands of very thin of the yarn or, for example, one of the yarns that I used on its own was the Big Wool by Rowan so the experimentation of yarns plied together goes on and on and the results are a surprise and exciting which makes you excited about colour knitting.

In the pattern, I recommend practising swatching for gauge. I give you instructions on how to measure a section of your knitting that you like and feel the drape of and how to make this work in your own vest project.

I have knitted two of these vests and I wear one in the winter and the other one was bought by a client and I enjoyed embroidering a little label for the neck which you can see it here.

The last images are knitted by Kath Ward this week which she shared to instragram and I was so happy to see. She has been a long time follower of mine on Instagram and she normally knits lace so chose to knit this chunky Vest pattern as a rest. It also took her three days to knit – I bet she knits another.

She knitted one strand of grey mohair through all of her waist yarn colours to keep unity through it all.

You can have a lot of fun with this pattern and just use what you’ve got and really enjoy it and see what happens

The pattern has 9 pages and includes images of the yarns that I used, information on how to get your gauge, photo images of progress of the vest, finished measurements of my vest, and written instructions on how to make it

Chunky Knit Vest link here

It’s a real joy quick joy to make for yourself or for a gift or to just to use up some of that stash that you have that you’ve never touched for years but really liked.

This is a project to use those really like lots of different yarns.

much love. Tracey

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A Little Harvest of Yarn… and a Giveaway!

Easy Pattern spotlight – Chunky Knit Vest