A good, comfy casual sweater--but I also wear it over a collared shirt and tie to work.

In the photos, the lower button is buttoned (otherwise it would be mosly hidden) and the upper button is not.

I call it the 3-block sweater because that’s what Sally Melville calls the stitch pattern itself (since it has three different blocks: stockinette, garter, and reverse stockinette) before going on to use it in these “To-the-Cottage Pullovers.”

The big---and pretty awful---surprise with this sweater was that the weight of the fabric itself pulled the sweater down and made all my measurements (taken with the work laid flat) wrong. I had to pull out the last foot of it and re-knit, and the sleeves also had all this grotesque extra fabric hanging down under my arms. They had to be completely unraveled and started over, much thinner than the pattern calls for: I kept them quite narrow, straight from wrist to elbow, then 8 increases up almost to the shoulder/armpit, and then a bunch of increase rows (12 of ‘em) in the last 24 rows just before the shoulder.

Also, the pattern isn’t so sensible, I think, in button placement, since it doesn’t take into account the border you add at the neck, and without considering that, the buttons would sit too far down the placket.