Men Who Knit Promoting and inspiring the art of knitting amongst men.

I've been inspired by all of the man shawls, cowls and wraps I've seen everywhere lately! It's nice to witness a broadening of traditional masculine garment boundaries. I wanted to design something in a similar vein to a mawl, but with a little more versatility that I could wear with jeans and boots or a casual dress sport coat. You can wear the capucha in several different ways depending on how much slack you allow in the icord ties and is a lot of fun to knit. It almost serves as a knitting sampler of sorts packed with several knitting techniques--icord bind-off, applied icord, cables, ribbing, eyelets, paired increases/decreases, short rows, etc.--that could be practiced and developed for use in larger, more advanced knitting projects. It's also a great stash buster! For the sample, I used a ribbon yarn for the lower half and a soft merino DK held double for the collar. The edging was knit in a bulky acrylic/wool tweed. The pattern will be released on 9/15/10 on Ravelry and The Knitting Mill Blog.