Here is a jacket I finished at the beginning of winter.

Made from a chunky wool/alpaca blend, it’s very warm, but also, makes me look like the very hungry caterpillar once he wasn’t so hungry anymore. Them’s the breaks with those chunky knits though i suppose. Kat was discussing the chunk factor recently, and to add my bit; my boss tried it on the other day, and though she is around the same size as me, she looked half my size in it. Thus I deduce that broad shoulders, and small boobs (neither of which i possess) are most suitable for chunk.

I took the pattern from a cute Japanese craft book, but had a lot of trouble understanding the instructions. So, most of it was just winging it. There isn’t too much risk with something that chunky. Also, i changed the recommended wool which was cheap (yay!) but very scratchy (boo).