finally finished

In the midst of the hottest summer since I was a toddler with scorched feet, hosepipe bans, political skulduggery and all the anxiety that goes with it, I have managed to complete the chevron knit.

The pattern was only a 2 row repeat and was a fairly easy knit in stylecraft double knit acrylic yarn on 3.5mm and 4mm needles. It came out at an easy 40 -42" chest, with a little stretch. Also, I;m a sucker for a bit of a moss stitch yoke.

Buttons came from a box of several thousand 'vintage' I bought.

The sleevecaps are made in a kind of inverted t-shape. So that instead of pleating or gathering, the fullness is more square and comes from creating 'darts' 

Explanation below from Susan Crawford's 'A Stitch in Time Vol. 2'.