I’ve been working on the Tulp Capelet for a week now, though I have restarted several times thanks to several pattern erratas. This is what should’ve been done in the instructions, as well as general thoughts I hope help others make this gorgeous garment:

Cast on loosely with DC, then add LC
Row 12 should have one C9R cable and one C9L cable
Row 18: before starting row, add markers on either end with 9 knit rows between new markers and existing outer markers

It would also have been helpful if the pattern specified that the markers are to be placed on the DS DC rows as it took me a long time to figure that out. Also, count the selvage st (edge st) when counting out rows to place markers.

It helped me a lot to read the intro text to the pattern as it allowed me to visualize where the increases would be in the pattern so I won’t have to read every row instruction. Basically, starting at row 22, make a cable and increase on every row ending in -2 and increase only (no cable) on every row ending in -8.

It would look nicer on the LS if C9R had the sl st before the cable and the C9L had the sl st after the cable (or the other way around) as the sl st creates a straight line on the LS next to the cable, so even though the cables as seen from the front go separate directions, the line ends up on the left of the cable on both, as is quite evident in the picture. However, I figured this out too late to want to restart it again.

The pattern ratings I used are based on poorly written instructions, not the beautiful garment. It’s really a very easy knit, but I needed to use so much intuition and frogging to get it going that I gave it a difficult marking and one star. Also, I could not find errata on Ms. Marchant’s website and the ones on the pattern page here on Ravelry are incomplete and even more confusing, so I hope my comments here can help someone else make, what will be, a gorgeous finished capelet after a pretty quick and easy knit.

I cast off using tubular cast off after 77 rows. Casting off in this manner with this many stitches took over two hours! I should’ve done the last row with no yos as it would’ve been nicer on the cast off edge.

For the neckband, I picked up stitches and crocheted two rows sc with LC, then one row dc ch until the end, then one row sc, which left me with a nice eyelet row of filet crochet through which to thread an I-cord in the DC. I think this neckband will be less elastic and therefore holding up better to the stretching it might incur from the weight of the yarn and stretchiness of the brioche stitch.