Ripple Vest

About This Pattern

This design was inspired by rocky landscapes filled with forest growth and hidden mountain lakes. Since my childhood, these natural landscapes have been my touchstone.

Materials

YARN Mountain Meadow Wool Cora (100% Mountain Merino wool; 210 yd [192 m]/31/2 oz [100 g]; worsted weight): Brook, 3 (3, 4, 4, 5) (5, 5, 6, 6) skeins. (Also shown in Marigold.)

NEEDLES Sizes 6 (4 mm), 5 (3.75 mm), and 4 (3.5 mm): 16" (40 cm) and 24" (60 cm) circular (cir). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.

NOTIONS Markers (m); cable needle (cn); stitch holders; tapestry needle.

GAUGE 19 sts and 27 rows = 4" (10 cm) in cable patt on largest needle.

FINISHED SIZE 31¼ (34½, 38, 43, 46¼) (49¾, 54¾, 58, 61½)" (79.5 [87.5, 96.5, 109, 117.5] [126.5, 139, 147.5, 156] cm) chest circumference. The blue vest shown measures 34½" (87.5 cm), modeled with ¼" (0.5 cm) of ease; the yellow vest shown measures 38" with no ease.

Resources

• Visit farmfiberknits.com/abbreviations for terms you don’t know.

• There are several ways to seam garter stitch, and knitters often worry about which one they should choose. Technical editor and lover of details Kate Atherley shows four seaming methods in Farm & Fiber Knits Summer 2026.

About: Nadya Stallings lives and designs knitwear in her tiny workshop in northeast Ohio. She has been publishing her work since 2009, but she had been creating her own designs for many years before that. She is a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. Nadya likes her little hands to be constantly occupied with knitting, sewing, occasionally crocheting, watercoloring, gardening, playing piano (when it’s well tuned), and cooking, not necessarily in this order. Her mind is hungry to listen to audio books and learn something new in any activity she is involved in.

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