Kanaye

Tucks, reverse stockinette stitch and I-cords adorn this vest that is knitted sideways with a large garter stitch collar and a hem. Named Kanaye – Japanese for the zealous one – as the vest with its waterfall fronts can be used as a shawl or even upside down and closed with a shawl pin. The textured vest is worked in two parts and joined at the center back with a decorative I-cord on top. Kanaye is knitted in the airy Ask from Hillesvåg Ullvarefabrikk.

Size: Shown in size Extra Small/Small.

Gauge: 22 sts and 30 rows in St st using 3.5 mm/US 4 needle measures 10 cm square after blocking.

Notes: The vest is worked sideways in two pieces beginning at each front to center back. It is knitted together at the center back with 3-needles and then with an I-cord bind off. Each front begins with a provisional cast on, that is replaced with an I-cord bind off at the end. Stitches are picked up along both long sides, the bottom one for a double hem and the top one for a collar - worked in garter st.