Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet

I had this Anthropologie-Inspired Capelet pattern bookmarked since forever.  After sitting around twiddling my thumbs for more than a year hoping the capelet would magically knit itself, I finally found an excuse to knit one for myself, and boy, am I glad I did.  Now I'm kicking myself wondering why in the world I didn't make it sooner.

                             

You see, I was invited to an engagement party in Seattle where all guests were asked to wear black and pink.  I have black garments galore...but pink?  Yikes.  I looked through my wardrobe and found 3 pink shirts (one of them was a t-shirt, haha).  Nice for me to wear out on a normal day, but not to a semi-formal party.  I didn't really have the time to go make a special trip to shop for something pink to go with my dress.  I was packing for the trip and in the middle of convincing myself that a pink necklace and earrings would bring enough color into my ensemble to offset the black when it hit me.  That capelet that everyone on Craftster keeps making.  The Anthropolgie-inspired one.  I could knit a pink one.  And theoretically, I could start and finish it on my flight to Seattle.  And so it was decided.

I happened to have just purchased the last two remaining skeins of pale pink Blue Sky Alpacas Organic Cotton yarn during a big sale at a local yarn store the day before, thinking I'd just stash it away for a while (I know, what are the chances of that?  This capelet was meant to happen, hehe).  I immediately retrieved the yarn, shoved it into my carry-on, and printed out the pattern for my in-flight entertainment.

   

I knit in the capelet in the round to minimize seaming.  It was a pretty quick knit; I was able to finish the knitting and weave in nearly all of the ends by the time I arrived in Seattle.  Although my capelet wasn't looking it's finest at the party (I wasn't able to block the capelet before the party, and had completely forgotten to pack a brooch to pin the collar on top), it looked great with my dress.  I couldn't ask for anything more.

Comments

[Kari]

So pretty! It's been on my to knit list for a while, too! Although Ravelry's not helping with that, I keep finding awesome patterns! LOL

Hope you're having a great summer!

[Adrienne]

This is VERY cute! it's on my list as well!!!!

[lera]

Holy cow, Shirley! You knit that whole thing on the plane?????? You amaze me, girl!! That is beautiful! Truly beautiful.

[prettyknit]

oh, that's beautiful!! love the colour.

[Nubiancraftster]

Wow, that was like a knitters version of the Superman transformation. Get on a plane with yarn, exit plane with Finished Object. I am so impressed.

[Connie]

May I ask how you knit this in the round? I am assuming you didn't have to purl if you knitted it in the round, so did you steek the front opening? Thanks!

[Penny]

You look Beautiful and I like it without being buttoned...