When the air conditioning is a bit too much in the summer or it’s getting on for fall and starting to get a bit nippy outside maybe you just need a little something on your shoulders. This little capelet will fit the bill beautifully. It’s a quick knit that uses two skeins of fingering to make a capelet with ever expanding overlapping, or imbricate, scales with a soft and drapey neck treatment.

This one size capelet is suitable for intermediate or advanced knitters who are comfortable with knitting lace and reading charted lace patterns. Stitch patterns (5) are given in charted format only.

Finished capelet measures 12” from top to bottom and 24” wide (48” complete circumference) after blocking.

Yarn recommendations: Fingering weight yarn in solid or only very slightly tonal hues. Self-striping, variegated or speckled yarns are not appropriate; the pattern will be obscured. A luxury blend yarn such as a MCN would be especially appropriate.

Materials:
• Yarn (fingering weight): ca. 200 g total or ca. 840 yards (2 100 g skeins). As shown: Malabrigo Mechita in MTA850, Archangel
• Size 8 (US) circular needles (or size needed to obtain gauge), no longer than 26” from tip to tip.
• Stitch markers.
• Tapestry needle.