Finished

Knitted up because Mr B was feeling slightly left out.

A King Cole pattern bought from Wool Warehouse, which can be found here.

Knit in Stylecraft double knit (colour - khaki) on 4mm needles. I only changed it slightly, by knitting the front band as I went, skipping a rib row every few rows, so the rib wasn't too baggy. 

(I can't be the only one who hates picking up hundreds of stitches for front bands.)

The cables run up the front and back and  meet at the shoulder seam.

 I love it when a plan comes together.

I had to raid the vintage trouser buttons to find nine little matching ones, but they are so cute.

 

I can never resist a good cable.

 

Although not a vintage pattern, I thought it would dress up well, if we ever get to do a vintage dress up day out. So I am dreaming of sunny days and steam trains. 

'Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet.'

and

'The fathers with broad belts under their suits

And seamy foreheads; mothers loud and fat;

An uncle shouting smut; and then the perms,

The nylon gloves and jewellery-substitutes,

The lemons, mauves, and olive-ochres that

Marked off the girls unreally from the rest.'

If you get the chance to read Larkin, I think 'The Whitsun Weddings' is really evocative and paints as good a picture of society in the early 60's as Auden did 30 years earlier.

They are both so nostalgic and speak to a very different Britain and a time gone by.