Noro One Button Capelet Knitting Pattern

Noro One Button Capelet

What Is Being Made

The Noro One Button Capelet is a seamless knitted capelet designed to drape elegantly from the shoulders. This garment features a single decorative button closure and is available in three sizes: Small, Medium/Large, and X-Large. The capelet measures 59 to 66½ inches around the lower edge, 24 to 26½ inches around the neck edge, and 24 inches in length, making it a versatile layering piece suitable for various occasions and body types.

Techniques Used

This capelet is constructed using several key knitting techniques that create a polished, professional finish:

• Bottom-Up Construction: The capelet is knitted from the lower edge upward toward the neckline, allowing for easy adjustments to length and fit as you work.
• Seamless Knitting: The garment is worked without seams, creating a smooth, continuous fabric that requires no finishing seaming work.
• Worked Flat: Despite being seamless, the capelet is knitted flat on circular needles rather than in the round, providing flexibility in shaping and stitch placement.
• Increases and Decreases: Strategic increases (including make one stitches worked into the back loop and yarn overs) and decreases (slip, slip, knit decreases) shape the capelet's silhouette.
• Stitch Markers: Contrasting yarn or purchased stitch markers are used to denote pattern repeats and shaping points throughout the knitting process.
• Selvage Stitches: Edge stitches are maintained to facilitate any finishing work and create clean garment edges.

Stitches Used

The Noro One Button Capelet employs fundamental knitting stitches to create its structure and texture:

• Stockinette Stitch: The primary stitch pattern, created by alternating knit and purl rows, forms a smooth, classic fabric with a distinctive V-shaped appearance on the right side.
• Knit Stitches: Basic knit stitches form the foundation of the stockinette fabric.
• Purl Stitches: Purl stitches are worked on alternate rows to create stockinette texture, and make one purl stitches are used for increases.
• Yarn Overs: These decorative increases add new stitches while creating small eyelet holes, contributing to the capelet's visual interest.
• Slip, Slip, Knit (SSK) Decreases: This left-leaning decrease is used to shape the capelet while maintaining a neat appearance.
• Slip Stitches: Stitches are slipped purlwise to create clean selvage edges and facilitate pattern work.

Materials and Tools

The Noro One Button Capelet requires specific materials to achieve the intended finished garment:

• Yarn: The pattern calls for 9 to 11 balls (50g each) of Noro Kureyon in colorway #381, depending on size. This yarn provides the capelet with its characteristic color and texture.
• Needles: One size US 8/5mm circular needle measuring 40 inches in length is required. The circular needle accommodates the flat knitting method while providing adequate needle length for the wide fabric.
• Notions: One novelty button measuring 1¼ inches by ¾ inch (34mm by 19mm) serves as the single closure point and decorative focal point of the capelet.

Gauge

Achieving proper gauge is essential for this project. The pattern specifies 16 stitches and 22 rows over 4 inches (10 centimeters) in Stockinette stitch using the recommended yarn and needle size. Knitters should swatch before beginning to ensure their finished capelet matches the intended measurements.