I believe this may have been my first Stepehen West design, which I knit in the summer of 2013. This top-down shawl begins with self-striping yarn in a corrugated ridge stitch pattern for quick and easy knitting. A second color is introduced with slipped stitch color work, creating bold columns within the fabric. A garter stitch border finishes the edge.
Regarding the name of the pattern, Stephen explains: “The streets of Rekjavik are lined with the most colorful houses and most of the finishes are rusted and chipped adding character and dimension to the corrugated metal sidings. I couldn’t stop snapping photos of the Icelanders’ homes.

I love making up words for pattern names. The shawl reminded me of a metal house so metal + house = metalouse! It also sounds like mouse, which always a good thing.“