The buttons are metal. On a patterned yoke that is a real decision - the pattern is already doing a great deal, and adding gold-tone hardware to it should be too much. It is not, because they sit in a plain band that cuts straight down through the middle of the pattern and gives the eye somewhere to rest.
The yoke itself runs in stacked bands of geometric knitting with fine metallic thread worked through a few of the rows, so it catches light at a different rate than the rest. Below it the body is plain cashmere, and the cuffs are deep ribbed with nothing patterned on them at all.
It is a cardigan that behaves like jewelry, which means it needs almost nothing else in the outfit.
Details You'll Love
- Gold-tone metal buttons - set in a plain band that cuts cleanly through the pattern.
- Metallic thread in the yoke - worked through a few rows so they catch light differently.
- Stacked geometric bands - the Fair Isle yoke circles the shoulders in graduated rows.
- Plain cashmere body - left unpatterned so the yoke and buttons are not competing.
- Deep ribbed cuffs - kept plain, with none of the yoke pattern carried down.
