Circular vest (with chart)

Estoy recibiendo bastantes emails preguntando por este chaleco en inglés, así que con la ayuda de Cosas de Harne me animo a colgar una traducción.

Las interesadas en la versión en castellano, pinchad aquí.

This is the English translation for this pattern I posted almost 1 year ago. 

Please excuse my English. I hope you can understand the pattern.

If you have any doubts or you find mistakes please write to me ( mirincondemariposas @ hotmail . com ), so that I can correct them.

I crocheted this circular vest for my daughter with some beautiful cotton yarn I bought in Munich.

In this post you'll find the required materials and chart in case you want to crochet one.

Please remember, as everything else in my blog, it's ONLY FOR PERSONAL USE. Please don't sell my designs.

Materials: (size 4 to 6 years old )

• 5  50gr cotton yarn Wolle Rödel - Mille Filli skeins (yellow, orange, blue, lime green, red)
• 1  50gr cotton yarn Wolle Rödel - Diamant skein (violet)
• hook: 3mm (2 1/2 US)

If you don't want to use so many colors, you'll have enough with 4 or 5 skeins.

It's just crocheting a big circle, leaving 2 armholes for the arms.
The vest's diameter is 64cm.
The back of the vest (distance between armholes) is 29cm.
As it's crochet, it easily fits bigger girls. 

 I have included a chart (drawn by myself) in case someone would like to crochet one as well.

Note: in each row, you will need to substitute the first stitch for:

• 1 chain if it's a single crochet 
• 2 chains if it's half double crochet 
• 3 chains if it's double crochet 
• 4 chains if it's triple crochet 
• 5 chains if it's a "triple high stitch" or treble 

Row 1: ch 8, Sl st into first ch to join
Row 2: 16 hdc in the center of the hole, Sl st to join

Row 3: Sl st into next hdc, ch 1, sc in same stitch, ch 4, sk 1, *sc, ch 4, sk 1. repeat from * 6 more times, Sl st to join 

Pattern of these first rows

Refer to the char for the rest.

When some stitches in the chart have a common top line, it means they are cluster stitches.

Click on this image for a full-size original version, so that you can save it and print it out

I've left the armholes between the 2 double crochet rows, and used 34 foundation double crochet (fdc) stitches to create each one.  (These double crochet stitches don't have a chain below, each of them is crocheted into the base of the previous one. It's also called foundational stitches, and you can see them here.)

I still have to put something to tie it, maybe a button.

Happy crocheting!!

Here you've got another circular vest, with less rows, size 2-3 years old  (in English)

Here you've got a knit vest I've done for my little one. (in Spanish)