knitting pattern hounds, a challenge for you! (free online please, I am a tightwad)

[suzywong]

It's winter here, we are getting day time temperatures of, oooh let's see, 15 degrees! And my youngest Fragrant Boy needs something warm and he detests long sleeves.

So ... can you help me find a pattern for this please ?

hmm

have seen summat a BIT similar in erika knight-cherubs book

but that = > ££££. or pos $$$

thank you filly

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I've found this? It's in adult sizes, though.

Marina is your gal
I think she knitted something like that for a MNer's son
15 degrees in winter? Pah. It's about 12 degrees here in Scotland in fucking summer

Think I may have a similiar pattern somewhere, give me an hour or so, gotta pick up from nursery and I'll get back to you.

This is nearest I can find. Does it have to have a diamond pattern?

Opps this is the link here

yes, that's the stuff!
We have the right pattern from NQC and the right size from rantinghousewife - thank you

Any offers on a combination of the two elements?

It wouldn't be that hard to combine them yourself, I would think? I mean, you just take some graph paper, plot out the front of the vest, and draw some diagonal lines, surely?

...she says with a casual waft of her set square ..... NQC you are clearly far sharper and more crafty than I

I don't think I'm particularly crafty, but surely with some graph paper you could apply an argyle pattern to a plain vest?

I guess this sort of thing is why I find writing patterns mindbogglingly tiresome - I don't see why anyone would want a pattern.

Ah, that analytical brain, NQC.
SW if you want to know stuff like how many stitches to use with a certain size wool to make a tank-top, then get Marina to give you the stitch count for her pattern (which I now recall was fair isle) then divide up the diamonds and work it out that way.

Thought I might find something similiar in my ancient pattern stash, just seem to have a lot of ribbed boys cardies!!I'll have a look on the pattern ring pages.