With The Band Vest in Sirdar Stories DK - 10532 - Downloadable PDF

With The Band Vest in Sirdar Stories DK – Pattern 10532

The With The Band Vest (Design No. 10532) is a crochet vest pattern published by Sirdar, one of Britain's most established yarn brands, founded in West Yorkshire in 1880. Rated as an intermediate crochet project, this downloadable PDF pattern offers a stylish, multi-coloured vest suitable for a wide range of sizes, from UK 6–28 (US 2–24), making it an inclusive and versatile wardrobe addition. The pattern is triple-checked by Sirdar to guarantee success when worked with the recommended Sirdar yarn.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a crocheted vest top — a sleeveless garment designed for warm-weather wear. The vest is worked in a multi-colour design, giving it a bold, fashionable aesthetic that is ideal for festival season or casual summer styling. The pattern features two distinct colourway options, so makers can personalise their finished piece:

• Colourway One: Sirdar Stories DK in shades 821, 818, and 804
• Colourway Two: Sirdar Stories DK in shades 825, 828, and 824

Having two colourway options means that friends or family members can each make the same vest without matching — a detail even highlighted in the pattern's own customer testimonial, where one maker planned to crochet a second vest in a different colourway for a friend who admired the original.

Yarn and Materials

The recommended yarn is Sirdar Stories DK, a Double Knitting weight yarn described as a cotton-rich acrylic blend. This fibre composition is specifically chosen for its ability to create lighter garments that retain their shape over time. The natural cotton content makes it cool and comfortable against the skin, making it particularly well suited to summer makes and warm-weather garments like this vest. As a DK weight yarn, it strikes a balance between a fine, drapey fabric and a satisfying pace of work — ideal for intermediate crocheters looking to complete a wearable project without excessive time investment.

• Yarn: Sirdar Stories DK
• Weight: Double Knitting (DK)
• Fibre: Cotton-rich acrylic blend
• Colours used: Three shades per colourway (see colourway options above)

As with all Sirdar patterns, a crochet hook of the appropriate size for DK weight yarn would be required, along with standard finishing materials such as a yarn needle for weaving in ends.

Techniques and Construction

As an intermediate crochet pattern, the With The Band Vest goes beyond basic single crochet construction and incorporates techniques that will help crocheters develop and refine their skills. Working with three colours across the design requires an understanding of colour changes in crochet, which involves dropping one yarn and picking up another at designated points to create clean, defined colour transitions or striped sections within the fabric.

• Multi-colour crochet — working with three yarn shades to create a colourful, banded design
• Colour changes — managing yarn transitions neatly within rows or rounds
• Garment shaping — intermediate-level shaping techniques to achieve a fitted or semi-fitted vest silhouette across a wide size range
• Finishing techniques — seaming and edge work to complete the armholes and neckline of the vest

Stitches Used

While the PDF does not enumerate every stitch explicitly in the extracted content, the nature of the design and its intermediate difficulty level suggest the use of standard crochet stitches typical of structured garment construction. These commonly include combinations of:

• Chain stitch (ch) — used for foundation chains and turning chains
• Double crochet / Single crochet — foundational fabric stitches used throughout garment bodies