“All forests have their own personality. I don’t just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest… they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can’t be mistaken for one you’d hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.” ― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

This is a pattern for a top down knit cape and is worked in the round with a bit of short row shaping at the neck, a steek, and using the stranded colourwork technique.

Yarn Kits and buttons available at Gathered Sheep Yarns!

The cape begins at the top of the hood from a provisional cast-on and worked flat with short rows until top of hood is complete, then a steek may be cast on to work the rest of the hood (and then cape) in the round. Finally the button bands and hood bands are worked.

Please see schematic for all approximate finished sizes and choose the size with most comfortable positive ease to fit around the widest measurement around your bust and arms.

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This pattern is intended for knitters comfortable with using multiple charts with complex patterning. (There are a number of rounds with long floats, you may tack as usual or us the Ladder-back/Invisible Jacquard technique, instructions included in the pattern).