2597 Man's waist coat by Passap Design Team

2597 Man's waist coat

Machine Knitting
September 1979
Sport (12 wpi) ?
951 yards (870 m)
96 - 102 cm chest
English French
Out of print. This pattern was available for free.

Passap knitting machine instructions for a man’s v-neck vest. The back is knit in stocking stitch and the front in single bed fairisle with deco punchcard 67. The bands are in 2:2 rib.

The “!” designates this as a “particularly easy and quick to knit” pattern.

The pattern calls for 300g “Shetland wool” (290 m per 100g), 50g white, 250g light green.

Test square in stocking stitch: 100 st = 41 cm, 100 rows = 29 cm
Test square in fairisle: 100 st = 35 cm, 100 rows (RC 200) = 30 cm

The photo is on p5 of the model book (p6 of the pdf), the instructions on p9 of the instruction book (p28 of the pdf).