Starting with luxurious alpaca silk, Amethyst Iris beautifully highlights refined stockinette with its smooth humble elegance, and the charming iris edging finishes the capelet in an unexpected playful way.
Amethyst Iris is a capelet featuring high collar that easily and softly drapes around the neck. The flattering shape will make it year-round wardrobe staple, helping you make transition between sweater weather and summer sun all the more fun!
Alternatively omit the collar and choose a breezy silk blend and you are set for summer!

Material: sport weight alpaca or silk blends.
Sample shown:
Colour Adventures, Silpaca Sport, Opulent colorway.
Colour Adventures, Exquisite Sport, Fresh Leaves colorway.

Yarn requirements (high collar version):
Child:
280 (380, 500, 640)yds / 260 (350, 460, 590)m
Adult:
710 {780, 860, 930}yds / 650 {710, 790, 850} m

Note: if substituting yarn with different blends, your round gauge most likely won’t match the pattern gauge. The modifications to the round gauge will influence yarn requirements as well, and you will need more yarn! When in doubt, buy an extra skein for insurance!

Yarn requirements (summer version):
Child:
220 (290, 390, 500) yds / 200 (270, 360, 460)m
Adult:
560 {620, 690, 750} yds,510 {570, 630, 690} m

Sizes: Based on measurement around shoulders.

Child:
27 (30, 34, 38)“ / 66(76, 86, 97) cm
Recommended positive ease 1-2” / 2.5-5 cm, sample shown with 2” ease.

Adult:
40 {44, 50, 54}“ / 102 {112, 127, 137} cm
Recommended 2” (5 cm) of negative ease to 2” (5 cm) of positive ease, sample shown with 2” of negative ease.

Needles & Notions:

• US 6 (4 mm) DPNs and circular needles 24 or 32” (60 or 80 cm) long,
• US 5 (3.75 mm) 16” (40 cm) long circular needles,
• darning needle, st marker, end of needle stopper (optional), pins for blocking.

Pattern includes:

• 4 adult sizes, 4 child sizes
• high collar version and summer version (no high collar)
• charted and written directions for edgings
• tips and modifications
• tutorial, photos and detail instruction on how to join lace edging

Difficulty level:
3 out of 5 (1-easy, 5-dificult)