Knitted waistcoats - a technique "enterlak"

For many needlewomen, knitting is not just an exciting hobby, but an opportunity to make an original gift to your friends and family. What can warm the soul better than with love knitted waistcoats for our native men? We think about them when loops one by one appear from under our hands, turning a thin thread into a warm cozy sleeveless jacket.

On the Internet, you probably met many interesting models. This is also the knitted waistcoats with fur, firmly established in fashion in the last few years, and dresses for children with funny drawings in the style of intarsia. All of them are quite interesting in execution and deserve a separate description. Today we will consider knitted waistcoats in the technique of "enterlac". The cloth, connected in this way, looks like a wicker basket, it is very elastic and pleasant to the touch. The technique of "entlac" involves the use of yarns of one or several colors, so you can take the threads left from previous products for work.

What we need:

- Mohair brown yarn 3 loaf of 50 gr;

- beige 2 rolls of 50 gr;

- Sand 2 loaf of 50 gr;

- golden brown 2 coils of 50 gr;

- Circular knitting needles on the line;

- knitting needles 5 pcs.

Technique for making knits

1-3 row: we knit two loops of the purl strings by the lacquer, the facial by the facial ones.

4-18 row: in the front rows on the left side, we add one face crossed loop from the broach, while knitting from the main fabric (for example, the belt gum) in each new front row we use one loop from the main cloth in the binding. So we tie the triangles along the entire width of the product.

With the second color we take the loops from the edges, at the end of each purl series we knit together the last loop and 1 loop of the first color, gradually connecting the triangle and the square of the second color. A square is formed above each triangle, knitting takes place without breaking off a thread of the same color.

In the next row of squares, you can use the third color, picking the loops from the edge and continuing the knitting by the same principle.

Knitted waistcoats: start of work

We type on the spokes of a loop, the number of which is calculated from the associated pattern. For the 50th size, this is 288 loops. We knit a brown yarn with an elastic band 1x1 6 cm high, after which we sew a series of triangles of the same color, they will be 16 pieces.

If you knit a product of yarns of several colors, go to the next shade, as seen in the photo, then go back to knitting with a brown thread. So we continue to work until we reach the armhole. From this place we perform a separate back and in front of the waistcoat, the figure will tell you where to make bevels on the armholes and the neck. On the shoulder seams sleeveless you can sew directly or connect the squares among themselves so that the seam is not visible. At the finished product, we bind the armhole and neckline of the neckband with the elastic band, we hang it on the hangers for knitwear. It is undesirable to iron and steam the enamel cloth, so sprinkle the waistcoat with water from the spray gun and slightly pull it out.

Knitted vests in the enteralak style look original and elegant, they can be a great gift or a favorite thing in your wardrobe. When you master this technique, you'll need to make sure how easy it is to find the size of the rectangles for the most diverse models. If your kids wear knitted waistcoats, you can use a whole palette of bright shades of warm yarn for boys and girls.