The Everyday Jacket

This is a must-have-jacket my pre-teen daughter has begged me to make… She wants sweaters and jackets that are soft, airy and preferably without any buttons or zippers. So when I made the (smaller) Jente Jakke for one of her sisters some weeks back, she convinced me that now it was her turn … The yarn is a Norwegian yarn from Du Store Alpakka and is called Pus (it is a Norwegian nickname for cat/kitten) and is Baby Alpacka with some polyamide and acryl fibre (but it is actually hard to guess that it is synthetic fibbers in it; it is a type of cable spinning). It is knitted as simple garther stitch in five pieces. I used needle no. 7, and as I do not knit very loose I probably should have considered to use one size larger…
I made each of the front pieces broader so they were overlapping, which makes it very nice to “tuck” into. But with simple and almost invisible button holes… I also wanted to make a high neck that could be folded nicely down, but that was totally out of the question!  
All pieces were sewn together,  and luckily, the first evening she wore it was cold one, and the next morning she agreed to have the buttons included!  I might consider to make a longer version (with high neck!) for myself!