Fair Isle Vest by Mary Jane Mucklestone

Fair Isle Vest

Knitting
June 2012
DK (11 wpi) ?
26 stitches and 26 rows = 4 inches
in Fair Isle
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
Finished size: 32 (34½, 37, 39½, 41¾, 44¼, 46¾, 49 ¼)" / 81.5 (87.5, 94, 100.5, 106, 112.5, 119, 125) cm
English

With its striking color combinations and elaborate motifs, Fair Isle knitting can seem overwhelming. Join me for my new online Craftsy class, The Fair Isle Vest: Stranded and Steeked, and learn the techniques that take this dazzling form of stranded colorwork from daunting to doable.
In ten lessons, you’ll have the skills you need for any fair isle project.
Once you enroll in the class, it’s yours for life, to watch at your own pace, as many times as you like. If you want to see a technique again, just rewind. If you want to make notes about a certain technique, you can, right there in your video. My class is interactive, so you can ask questions, and get answers from your classmates and from me. Join us!

Yarn:
100% Shetland wool, 25 gr ball -
Approximately 82 yds / 75 m
• 4 (4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6) skeins 103 Shlomit
(MC)
• 2 (2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3) skeins 102 Shaela
• 1 (1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2) skein(s) 106
Mooskit
• 1 (1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2) skein(s) 105 Eesit
• 1 (2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2) skein(s) 182
Buttercup
• 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4) skein(s) 390
Daffodil
• 1 skein all sizes 350 Lemon
• 1 skein all sizes 660 Lagoon
• 1 skein all sizes 570 Sorbet

Yarn substitution is just fine. Hunt around here on Ravelry for other suitable DK weight yarns. And..I encourage you to come up with your own colorways for super-duper extra fun!