The last time you saw it, it was just a hood.
To knit the rest has taken almost exactly a year and a heap of Cascade 220 Sport–a yarn I love to pieces. Happily, the fit is generous; so the recipient should (in spite of considerable growth) get a goodly amount of use from it.
I might have finished faster; but the cape was knit, ripped back to the hood, and re-knit four times. The file for this piece has eleven swatches, and forty pages of instructions–most of them crossed out. The problem with me as a designer is that I'm not very good at it.
Children's clothing is a tough nut for me to crack, mostly because I fear my taste is not in step with the modern child–not to mention the modern parent. I wouldn't put my son in a Fauntleroy suit or my daughter in petticoats. On the other hand, I look to nineteenth-century children's clothing and sigh for the neat tailoring and the elegant details. Most of the kids in these parts run about in loud, shapeless rags and usually look as though they were dressed in the dark by a drunken nanny. (In these parts, they probably were.)
Maybe shapeless rags is what twenty-first century childhood requires. If so, I know my work in this genre will have severely limited appeal. So be it.
Anyhow, here are the first photos of the finished hood and cape. With a grateful nod to reader Rams S., who suggest a variation of the name, I will call the piece Manteau Rose.
I hope you'll like it, Abigail. It should twirl very, very well indeed. Uncle Franklin road tested it.
Note: After a rather unfortunate string of unsuitably, um, "whimsical" technical editors, I've finally found one who promises to deliver quality work in a timely fashion–so I hope that this and several other patterns (including the Anna Shawl) will be available for online download sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed.
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So. Very. Pretty.
And of course you twirled in it. How could you not?
Gorgeous work Franklin.
Wow....what a lucky niece Abigail is! That is lovely. And I'm so glad that you test twirled it!
Now where in the heck was Harry and the video recorder when you were twirling?
Gasp! It is absolutely darling and perfect... Abigail is the luckiest little girl!
Darn cute. Abigail is a lucky girl.
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My inner five-year-old wants it. As she generally runs my life anyway, I should just say I WANT ONE.
Some of us wore petticoats by choice! In fact I so longed for some flouncy clothes I recreated the look this weekend.
Fantastical clothing is always appreciated by particularly wonderful small people. Darling photograph. Well done, Franklin!
It's beautiful!
It's beautiful! I love the peaks along the bottom edge. They will for certain catch the air for a perfect twirl. :)
Honestly, that is *too* fucking très chic, darlin'... I plan on purchasing the pattern when available.
The wee girl is a very lucky to have such a talented (and tenacious) uncle.
Gorgeous. And forgive me, but I want one, too. In a teal, perhaps? I feel a twirl coming on...
Awe! What love was knit into that! And I can't WAIT for the Anna Shawl, I think about your July post often!.
Oh, Frank I just love it and I know Abby will love it also. It is just perfect. Can't wait until she sees it.
It's gorgeous, Franklin! Also, that photo of your niece makes me love her without knowing her. When I look at her, I feel I would rather see that photo than the shawl, and I am totally not denigrating that beautiful shawl in saying so.
The cape is quite sweet and if you happen to knit my nearly 3yo one I am sure she would wear it. Often. If I knit it for her, however, she will throw it in a corner and yell "no" as loudly as she can while stamping her foot. Check out my ravelry page and see all the unmodeled, unloved small knits on it. As soon as she turned 2 she became VERY opinionated about what she would and would not wear. We don't have any drunken nannies here but we might as well given what her clothing looks like on any given day.
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Lucky Abigail! It's lovely.
Of course now I want to knit one in red. For me.
It is truly lovely, Franklin. I'm sure that Abagail will see the beauty and love in it. She's lucky to have you for her uncle!
It's beautiful, Franklin. Abigail will be smitten.
I want an adult one. I can be a princess too. Where is my tiara?
I really hope that the recipient and her parents will not only enjoy this work of amazing beauty and thoughtfulness, but will wear and store it such that future generations will love it as well. This one is timeless.
I love the details, the color, the look. Very, very nice.
I love it. I hope Abigail twirls and twirls in excited glee.
And I sure hope you get at least one usable photo of that! Because I doubt that I'm the ONLY ONE who wants to see it!
Merry Christmas!!!
(and my hash word verification is "blesen" and I think that's totally appropriate! *wink*)
I love it! I'm thinking a Little Red Riding Hood could come out of this...but first I need to finish my Faucett.
Fantastic work, Franklin!
Fab-lous! She will looove it!
Oh so lovely, I can't wait for the pattern so my little niece can twirl in hers too.
Very tempted to knit one in Black or a very dark green.
Delightful! She will look absolutely stunning in it!
The effort and ripping back was not wasted! Lovely!
Ok, my verification word was not very interesting or relevant: fort. But the next one that popped up is really fun: badses.
Love it - so well thought out & beautifully knit.
Happy Holidays
Stunning
How lovely! The cape is very pretty, too.
It's a masterpiece Franklin!
It's beautiful - gorgeous work. You are the best uncle ever!
Oh, it's lovely. You are the BEST uncle ever. (And I am with you on the Cascade 220. I adore that stuff.)
Both Abigail and her cape are beautiful!
Oh Franklin, that is beautiful!
She is one lucky niece!
Just perfect! What a lucky girl.
Beautiful job! Abigail has a wonderful uncle!
GASP! Franklin, it's beautiful!! But then, we all knew it would be...
Franklin,
It's just as GORGEOUS as is your Abigail...
My word... "spank"?!?
Franklin, it's absolutely perfect! Not too hard to up-size into big-girl sizes, right? :D
Oh my, that's stunning! Great work there, and great work on calling out the "21st century shapeless rags".
Congratulations for seeing through your vision and revision until you got it right. It is simply stunning and beautifully detailed.
Absolutely beautiful.
So happy about the new tech ed, and waiting with baited (if not held) breath for this pattern. Beautiful!
It's simply lovely.
Gorgeous! Love the details.
Since it popped up next to your blog in my Reader, another blog I read just did a post on men's fashions from 1760 - 1800 that you may or may not find interesting here.
Speaking of elegant details....breathtaking. Yes, I want one too.
You are a Dammnnnn Good Uncle....I was the same when my niece was young - she is 20 now and gorgeous looking -and in her Pink Period. I made her a Pink Princess Dress with ruffles, puff sleeves and golden stars, a matching veil and golden shoes ..she wore it for months till she looked a beautiful rag doll and since that moment she prefers dresses over trousers and I am still her favourite uncle.
Fab! and what Pat Salvatini said ....
Great work - you definitely deserve some sort of Uncle of the Year award for all that ripping and re-knitting! Really like the geometric gatherings-in - I want to call them gores but maybe gores are just the ones that flare out! Anyway. Good job, and I hope she loves it.
Abolutely beautiful work, Franklin, and I wholly agree that children (and adults, for that matter) should wear more clothes like this. I want one, despite the fact that I'd look like a wedding marquis that would fit a small country.
It is indeed a real twirl-er! Stunning and I am sure it will be treasured! Wish you were my Uncle!
Well done, Uncle Franklin! I have a 6yo daughter who would fall in LOVE with this if she saw it. I am, therefore, keeping her away from the computer b/c I have NO time to knit it and there isn't actually a pattern yet. :P
Now where is the video of Uncle Franklin road testing it... that would be priceless! Where is Harry when you need him?
I am sure that Abigail will adore it and that small grudge she has been holding against you for the past year will soon be forgotten.
You did a beautiful job.
Lovely piece!
Now let's change the size ... the colour (I don't look good in "Rose") and I'll be willing to try this for myself!
WOW ... I wanna twirl too
Having read all the comments, you will of course realize that you will need to size this from 2yearold to Women's size 55 plus, as every girly girl will need one. I'll knit mine in pink and send you photos.
Well Phoebe (3 years old) LOVES it and has requested it in "dark blue! dark blue!" so I hope your technical editor works quickly! Thanks for this lovely design.
(She has some nice clothes, but the problem is that we indulge Phoebe's penchant for independent and creative self-dressing. With enough clashing layers, any set of items looks dowdy. The other problem is hand-me downs, which save a lot of money, but fill the drawers with the dreaded hot pinks and glitter.)
Beautiful! I've never seen anything so sweet for little girls.
Great work! I wondered what happened to this project :)
Oh my goodness, I love it -- and I know my daughter would, too. I want to make both this and the Anna shawl, so I'm excited for the patterns!
It looks amazing!
Beautiful!
I can has?? I have two little girls who I think really, really need this cape. It's lovely.
Oh GAD! My first thought was "I hope she still wants a twirley poncho" because that (gorgeous) Cascade should wear like iron. Bless you for being willing to rip. Second thought - tailored black dress coat (adult size) topped with a scarlet hood & cape; black knee length dress boots & red leather gloves wouldn't hurt either.
Oh it came out beautifully! Much to my mother's chagrin (and probably because she worked so hard to withhold it from me) I was a huge fan of pink as a child and I probably would have just exploded from glee, right there on the spot, if someone had made me something that amazing.
Good luck with the self publishing.
Franklin, it's gorgeous! She is going to love it! I wish I still had girlies little enough to enjoy something like this. What do you have in the way of superhero capes for little boys? :-D
That is amazingly beautiful! Well worth the wait.
It is really spectacular
That is very cute. I love this kid's eyes.
I adore that twirly girly creation. Congratulations!!!!
I want one for myself although I long ago left girly size.
Looking forward to the pattern and finding a little girl to knit it for.
The cape is beautiful Franklin!! I love it, and I'm sure all three of my granddaughters will too! (3-8years) Looking forward to the pattern coming out!
you amaze!
So very beautiful! Abigail is a lucky little princess indeed!
Franklin, it is absolutely gorgeous, and I LOVE things from that era! I suspect that your niece will love to wear it, twirl in it, and feeling like a princess for sure! I hope you are going to sell this pattern. I have a 6 yr. old DGD!! LOL
Oh, and by the way, my dd, now 21, loved dressing as a princess and a fairy as a child, even has a grown fairy costume that she wears some Halloweens. Our dgd's love to play dress up in fancy clothes, too. My dd was the child that would go to kid's choir in her fairy princess getup and get longing stares from the other little girls...so the girls do like to wear that stuff!!
What a spectacular piece of clothing! I am especially charmed by the sculptural form you've given the petals.
So Beautiful!
Abigail is extremely lucky to have such an awesome uncle.
And both my girls would wear such a cape 24/7 if I let them. I am making a 'tiny Tea Leaves' in aqua for my almost 4 year old and have a request in for a dark purple for the 7 year old. I've got some picky girls when it comes to handknits.
This is adorable. I know many a young boy and girl who would be thrilled to have this to play around in!
It looks like petals of a flower! That is a fairy cape if I ever saw one.
This is completely fabulous! What a lucky little girl. Her patience will definitely be rewarded.
Oh Franklin, she's beautiful! Your lovely model and the capelet. I want!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Let's see, Sophia is almost two and a half. By the time she's five....
beeyooteeful, dear! and I second pat salvatini's comment; I bet you looked like a ballerina!
Love it.
My next project will be pink. for me.
wot evurryone els sed (my vocabules is busted...sowwy...long day)
Lovely! And the cape ain't bad either!
Serious question. I used to live in the Chicago-land area years and years ago, and now live in WI. I get to Chicago frequently, and would LOVE to visit yarn shops, but I have a heck of a time finding any. Do you have recommendations? Thanks so much! C-
Well, if that don't get you the World's Best Uncle of the Decade, I sure don't know what would! Amazing, gorgeous; will it be available in adult sizes? I'd have given a lot to see the test twirl!
It's lovely!
Very pretty. Now we want to see her test twirl it!
Sweet design. I hope the pattern becomes available soon.
That is a fantastic piece. Beautiful work. I have two girls who would love something twirly like that, though I fear my skills might not do your pattern justice. Thanks for sharing.
Franklin,
it is simply beautiful. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Wow. That is just so pretty and very suitable for a lovely girl. Impressed is the word and probably worth the wait!!
So lovely! You are going to give us modeled shots, yes?
Just lovely. And what a great rosy pink. All the ripping yielded a beautiful result.
Lucky Abigail, I hope she wears it a lot! So much clothing these days is so uninspired.....I used to smock dresses for my daughters -kept all those pretties, too, for the grandchldren who will never come...
I for one would love to dress my little one in things if this style. Way to persevere! I'll be looking forward to the pattern.
So precious!! I am all for 19th Century clothes, I must say... no wonder why lots of people have asked me if me and the kids "come from another country"... No, I don't dress them up 19th centurish, just elegant when on an outing... I will love to knit this one for my girl!!!
Lucky lucky Abigail. Can't wait to see a photo of her twirling in it!
Im sure she'll be smitten with the knitting....the last time I twirled was 15 years ago when wearing my wedding dress....I can feel a twirl coming on now lol
I'm so proud of you for finishing! And it looks so beautiful! You came up with a lovely design. Good thing my daughter is grown or I would be making one as soon as the pattern is published! Thanks for sharing - good job!!
very pretty!
but what struck me first was that abigail has the same impish look in her eyes as her uncle.
very adorable.
My daughter happened to be looking on when I read the post and I got a "I want that Mama. Will you make that for me?" I really love the petal form it takes in the cape. I eagerly await the pattern.
That ... is... GORGEOUS! If my daughter still were young she would love to dance and twirl in it. I hope Abigail does just that.
That is just amazing. I know my little one would love it...hurry up already with that pattern, would ya’??? :)
Wow! Twirll-a-riffic!!
omighod! that's soo cute! it's really too, too incredibly amazingly CUTE! ..and you're so funny and clever and we all love you you, etc, etc, blah blah blah....barf.
I'm behind in my blog reading, but I do want to say that it is adorable! i look forward to the pattern being on ravelry.
(shhhhhh - just re-visiting this and can i tell u a secret? i'm going to be a grandma ((omg that sounds soooo old)) and i'm hoping i can knit all sorts of clothes to my grandchild... if they want it that is.. it' soooooo exiting! ta ta)
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Any chance that the Manteau Rose cape that you made your niece has been written up as a pattern for purchase yet? I have been watching for it and would love to make it for next fall for my granddaughter the 3 year old princess in my life!!
Thank you!!
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