Lace vest with floral pattern

Sizes: 36/38 (40/42) 44/46. You will need: 450 (500) 550 g of blue yarn Clou (75% wool, 25% polyacrylic, 85 m/50 g); hook No. 5.5 and No. 6; circular needles No. 6; 3 buttons with a diameter of 26 mm. Lace pattern, hook No. 6: the number of cast-on stitches is a multiple of 6 + 3 + 3 ch. for lifting. Knit according to the pattern. Start each row with 3 ch. for lifting instead of 1 dc and with stitches before the rapport, repeat the rapport, finish with stitches after the rapport. Knit once from the 1st to the 7th row, then repeat from the 2nd to the 7th row.

Pearl pattern: alternating 1 knit, 1 purl, shifting stitches after each row.

Knit density, lace pattern: 12 st. and 5.5 rows = 10 x 10 cm. Back: knit a chain of 63 (69) 75 ch. + 3 ch. for lifting and knit in lace pattern = 8 (9) 10 rapports + starting and ending stitches. Finish the work after 80 cm = 44 rows (83.5 cm = 46 rows) 87 cm = 48 rows from the cast-on edge, with the middle 25 (27) 29 st. forming the neckline, the outer 19 (21) 23 st. on each side - shoulders. Left front: knit a chain of 27 (30) 33 ch. + 3 ch. for lifting and knit in lace pattern, for size 40/42 finish the first 4 st. after the rapport and the last ending stitch = 2 rapports + starting and ending stitches (3 rapports + starting and 5 ending st.) 3 rapports + starting and ending stitches. After 67.5 cm = 37 rows (71 cm = 39 rows) 74.5 cm = 41 rows from the cast-on edge decrease for the neckline on the left side 3 (4) 5 st. (= at the beginning of the row knit over the decreasing stitches with a connecting stitch, at the end of the row leave the decreasing stitches unknitted), then decrease 5 x 1 st. in each row. Finish the work at the back height on the remaining 19 (21) 23 st. shoulder.

Right front: knit symmetrically, for size 40/42 start with the 1st starting st. and the last 3 st. before the rapport, knit 3 rapports, finish with 8 st. after the rapport. Assembly: sew the shoulder seams. For the armhole trims, cast on 44 (50) 56 st. on circular needles for the upper 20 cm = 11 rows (22 cm = 12 rows) 23.5 cm = 13 rows of the fronts and back in total, knit 3.5 cm in pearl pattern and close all stitches according to the pattern. Sew the side seams and trim seams. Crochet the lower edges of the back and fronts with hook No. 5.5 with 1 row of sc and "crab stitch" (= sc from left to right).

For the trims, cast on 82 (87) 92 st. on circular needles along the straight edges of the fronts and knit in pearl pattern. At the height of the trims of 4 cm, make 3 buttonholes in the next purl row on the right front trim: close 2 st. and in the next row cast them on again. Make the upper buttonhole 5 st. from the edge, make the next buttonholes with an interval of 12 (13) 14 st. At the height of the trims of 8.5 cm close all stitches according to the pattern. For the collar, cast on 91 (95) 99 st. on circular needles along the neckline and the short sides of the front trims, knit 8.5 cm in pearl pattern and close all stitches according to the pattern. Sew buttons in the middle of the left front trim.