I love the way this pattern works! Sleeves first meant I could work them as swatches and then cruised merrily from the bottom up. By the time I added the sleeves, both Little One and I were ready for it to be complete.

I wish I hadn’t twisted the yarns together quite so tightly on the edges when I alternated yarns to avoid any issues with hand dyed colour matches. It meant the button band was a bit hard to get to lie flat even with the brilliant free tutorial Tin Can Knits have on their blog. A definite lesson for the future.

I found the buttons in a local fabric store and named this Sika, after our local deer.