Pattern Description from Cast On, February-April 2010: “Named after the old knitting rhyme, In through the front door; once around the back. Peek through the window, and off jumps Jack!, this design utilizes slipped stitches in two contrasting colors, in two complimentary stitch patterns, to make a pullover vest that looks like bright ‘windows’ viewed through a Garter stitch lattice.”

Yarn Symbol: Medium (4)

Level of Experience: Intermediate

Sizes: Child’s Size 18 mo/2 yrs (4, 6/7, 8/9, 10 yrs)

Finished Measurements:

• Chest: 22 (23½, 26½, 29½, 31)“
• Length: 13½ (14½, 16, 17½, 19)“

Materials:

• Cascade 220 3.5oz/100g, 220yds/201m, 100% wool): 2 hanks #8422 Teal (MC), 1 (1, 1, 2, 2) hanks #8010 Cream (CC)
• Sizes 6 (4mm) 16” (40cm) & 7 (4.5mm) 16” (40cm) or 24” (60cm) circular needles & size 6 )4mm) set of 4 or 5 dpns or size needed to obtain correct gauge
• Stitch holders
• Stitch markers
• Tapestry needle

Gauge: With larger needles in Windows body pat, 21 sts & 35 rows = 4”/10 cm (after blocking). To save time, take time to check gauge.

Notes:

• On circular needle lengths: manufacturers differ in what they mean by labeling a needle as 24” long. Some include the tips in the length, some do not. so, your “24 inch” circ may actually be as long as 33” once you include the tips. This length would not work for the smaller sizes of this pattern, whereas a “real” 24 inch (tip-to-tip) would be a comfortable fit. Check your own needles against your desired vest circumference, to be sure they’ll work well for you.
• On color choices: you might like to try using a variegated yarn as your contrasting color. If you do, pair it with a solid that does not appear in the multi and contrasts strongly with it. Otherwise, at spots where the colors match u, your nice slip stitch patterning will “disappear”.
• My own working gauge was 22 sts and 38 rows = 4”/10 cm, before blocking. Wash and block your gauge swatch to check for color-fastness and stretching.
• When slipping stitches in this pattern, always skip each stitch from right needle to left needle as if to purl, not working the stitch, and holding the working yarn to the WS of the work. when working in the round, hold the yarn to the back. When working flat, hold the yarn to that back on RS rows and to the front on WS rows. The carried strands should never show on the RS of the fabric.