It is the brass buttons people notice, and they are the only thing on the sweater I haven't knitted.
Autumn is a beige mohair sweater with a boat neck and three-quarter sleeves. Everything about it is calm — until you get to the buttons.
Vintage brass buttons do something to a knitted garment that no pattern detail can: they give it age. A brand-new sweater looks like it has been somewhere.
It is also the cheapest trick I know. Buttons cost little, and you can change them when you get tired of them. If you find a set at a flea market, the sweater is suddenly yours alone.
The boat neck and the three-quarter sleeves belong together. Both show a little skin where you otherwise see nothing — the collarbone and the wrist — and that is why such a simple sweater can be dressed up.
Marked beginner, on 7 mm needles. It is one of my easiest patterns.
Beginner · 7 mm needles · boat neck, three-quarter sleeve and brass buttons
See the pattern → · The True Love collection
Did you know …
The ancient Greeks fastened their tunics with buttons and loops. In medieval Europe, clothes were held together in other ways. That changed when the buttonhole was reinvented in the 1200s.
Source: Britannica: button
Source: Britannica: button.
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