>>Sleeve with chevrons ( linked chevrons look like this: /\/\/\/\/\ )
>
>Wonderful... down the sleeve, or around it?

Around it.

>>Shoulder with a bit of tree branch curling over it
>
>Actual picture of tree? I thought it was a vague impression of a
>tree...

It is - they didn't use a different color of yarn, they did it with the types of knitted stitches possible, to make it sort of a depression-shadow tree. But the suggestion of branches goes to the shoulders.

>>Verticle cable
>
>Oro? English being my first language, I've forgotten enough that this
>makes no sense (nor, for that matter, does the sentence I just wrote).

It looks like a piece of rope that is embedded in the sweater going from Kate's shoulder to the bottom of the sweater.

>Verticle I understand. Cable? Stripes?

Like the type of rope (called a cable) used on ships.

>>Center of sweater with main trunk of tree and most of the branches
>
>Again, I thought it was a kind of representation of a tree, not an
>actual tree?

That's what I said. Whether that's what it meant to you is entirely different. I'm quite sure what my mental picture of this looks like - the wonderful and catastrophic thing about words is they mean different things to different people.

-- Juniper

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