Rather than buy a gift for everyone, Steve and his siblings (and their significant others) do a sort of secret Santa gift exchange for Christmas. I say ‘sort of’ because it’s not actually a secret – everyone knows who everyone else has. This year I got Anne (Steve’s brother’s girlfriend) and since she knew I had her, she requested a hooded capelet as her gift. I’m sort of hating that I forgot to take any pictures of her in it, but trust me when I say that it looks way better on her.

Anne bought all the fabric in Connecticut and sent it to Vancouver for me to construct. Her specific requests were that it have a detachable hood, a pleat and tab in the back and buttons on the pockets.

With the hood off:

I was definitely winging it with the hood patterning and construction, but it ended up that the buttons are on the hood and the buttonholes are sewn to a flap on the inside of the collar. That way when the capelet is worn without the hood, no random attachment places are visible.