My capella, a longer version

This garment was inspired by a short sweater on Ravelry, the pattern was titled a, "capella wrap". I thought, why not make it longer, like a car coat? It would be that much warmer.

Here is the result of my work on that idea,




A back view of the collar,


And how the entire back looks.



I worked a panel first that was long enough to go from one knee, round my neck, and down to the other knee. It was about 20 inches wide, ribbing K2, P2 on the starting edge, then knit to define the lacy row of wrapped stitching with a blue yarn added, the rest is done in seed stitch.

After casting off, I crochet-grafted a panel in the middle of the piece making the grafted piece as wide as my back. I knitted it, K2, P2 ribbing, for about five inches and then added four inches onto either side of the ribbed panel for ease under the arms. I continued to knit entirely in ribbing until the back panel came down to one inch beyond the knee of the 'knee, round the neck to knee panel'.

I added a blue stripe to turn up as a hem then I cast off n hemmed in the same operation using the sewn cast off. I stitched up the sides and you see the results here. The hem on the back panel keeps the ribbing from pulling in to much at the bottom. A bit of blocking will fix the 'sway' in the front sides.

There is very little shaping involved, just two rectangles; other then adding to the sides for ease under the arms.