Materials required
Yarn: Anchor Mercerised Knitting Cotton (Art. 4057, Colourway 101, Purple)
Yardage: 5 x 50g balls
Hook: 2.5mm
8 Buttons ~ ½ inch size

Tension
Gauge: 20dc and 9dc rows in 3” (standard US terminology is used)
Size: 32” at chest for 34 pattern repeats as pictured here, increase as per details below

Pattern details
Cardigan is worked in one continuous piece, back and forth from the bottom up.

Starting chains: 209, or 6N+5, where N is the number of desired pattern repeats. Each row starts and ends with 3dc, for buttons.