When you have a couple of skeins of yarn left over from a sweater, you will likely be thinking about matching accessories. This hood takes less than 400 yards of worsted weight yarn and is a fun project for you or to gift to a loved one. It’s a fairly quick knit and like a good novel, it’s hard to put down--you may find that you want to make another one!

This cabled hood has an attached capelet and sports an attached cable twist edging on both the capelet and the edge of the hood. The capelet fits nicely over the shoulders and the hood is roomy enough to accommodate hair clips; it can also be pulled forward to shield eyes from rain, snow, or sun. Sizing is medium-large.

Some interesting techniques are required, including short rows, cables, and both right and wrong side leaning decreases for the hood shaping. The cables are simple with both charted and written instructions for the side cable and written instructions for the edging. You may also consider felting if you’ve used a pure wool yarn. The hood can be seamed or grafted. The attached capelet and the matching headband and wrist cuffs available in other patterns can be either seamed or worked with a provisional cast on and then grafted, which works easily with the plaited cable. The best time to graft the hood is on the next right side row after a cabled row.

The yarn weight is worsted medium, but significant variations among different yarns will make a difference in the gauge. However, pure wool yarn can usually be felted to size. The deep pink or cranberry hood pictured here was purported to be worsted weight but felt more like a sport yarn. The fern green example was more similar to an aran weight but labelled as worsted medium.

Instructions are both charted and written, including instructions for short rows and the attached cabled edging. Seaming is optional, with a provisional cast on and grafting option that works well with the hood cables.