When my son needed an outfit for his Anglo Saxons and Vikings history day at school, I took inspiration from the Skjoldehamn costume, a well-preserved outfit from the Early Middle Ages, found in marshy land in Northern Norway.

As I sewed the hood pieces together, I realised that it would be a wonderful garment to make use of large crocheted squares and thought how warm and comforting it would feel.

This pattern was originally designed for the Once Upon a Make-along Medieval fairytale event, which seemed the perfect opportunity to revive that idea and create a block with floral features, making a hood that’s ideal to keep a woodland fairy princess warm as she travels through her tale to our time. Following the event, this pattern is now available as an individual file.

Sizes: child S, child L, adult designed with positive ease in mind. Note that child L has a proportionately deeper yoke than the other two.

Tension: 30cm/12” square block has 25 rows and 136 sts; 4 2chsp in outer round, after blocking.

Working method: blocks are worked in joined rounds from RS. Pieces are seamed and edged.

Finished measurements
a. Hood length: 25 (30, 30)cm / 10 (12, 12)”
b. Hood depth: 25 (30, 35)cm / 10 (12, 14)”
c. Neck circumference: 25 (30, 35)cm / 10 (12, 14)”
d. Shoulder width: : 25 (30, 25)cm / 10 (12, 10)”
e. Yoke length: 33 (41, 33)cm / 13 (16, 13)”
f. Edge circumference: 150 (180, 160)cm / 60 (72, 64)”

Requirements
Drops Nepal Aran/worsted (65% Superwash Merino, 35% Alpaca; 150m/165yds per 50g) or similar yarn Sample in: C1 Chalk (8915); C2 Blue Ice (6220)
C1: 400 (500, 450)m / 440 (550, 500)yd
C2: 700 (780, 750)m / 770 (860, 825)yd
5mm (US H/8) hook
5 locking stitch markers
Yarn needle and scissors

I sometimes add extra resources for my patterns, e.g. yarn substitutions, adaptations, styling suggestions or helpful video clips as updates on my original blog post for the release, so consider checking it out.