I worked from home quite a lot this winter. I’m lucky to have a nice home office / craft room, but it’s heated by an A/C unit, so there’s always a bit of a draught. Even though the air is warm, it still feels uncomfortable to sit in it. I would wrap up in a shawl and a poncho or a fleece blanket draped around my shoulder. It worked, but I felt a bit silly to open the door in that outfit, and I’d have to take it all off for videocalls.
So, I designed a nice work-from-home sweater that meets all the requirements but looks less silly than wearing a fleece blanket as a cloak. It’s a comfortable and relaxed fit but not oversized.
The pattern is self drafted, and the cowl is very long (12" ish) and can be rolled up or down.
I didn’t want visible darts in this fabric, but I also didn’t want to make a shapeless sweater. So there’s a small pleat on each side as a dart equivalent. They’re barely visible but make a big difference.
I finished this in winter and have worn it so many times already. In my workplace, we’d typically not wear this around the office but sweaters are fine on Zoom meetings.
I had some fabric left over, so I went through my stash of old patterns and found a skirt pattern that I also drafted myself, but years ago. I added an elastic waistband, the elastic came from stash. I had to get a little bit creative but I just about managed to cut the pattern pieces out of the remaining fabric, there wasn’t much left of it afterwards. I finished this skirt a while back, as well, but it didn’t get hemmed until today.
There are darts on the front and the back, and they’re less visible than I feared they would be:
Honestly, I’m not really sure if I’m going to wear that skirt a lot. The shops are full of co-ords these day but this is way too much purple to wear together 
The knit fabric feels more like something to wear around the house than outside of the house. But I can picture maybe wearing it with a grey or black sweater. And if I had put it back into the stash bin, we all know it would still have been there in a decade. So having a skirt you’re not sure about is always better than that.
In highschool I dyed my hair this exact colour for a while.