I have finished it! Behold my husband, properly acowled.
This is what happened when I asked him to model it from the back. You can’t see the rest of him, and that’s for a reason. 🙂
He needs a longbow.
Original pattern is here: Ranger Cowl.
Be aware if you start this pattern that it takes forever. The hood is formed by increasing those ribs and at some point, there is a lot of them. The original pattern uses bulky, this is worsted Malabrigo Rios and it took over 1,000 yards. Also, I had altered the cable, because Gordon likes the traditional cable braid a bit better.
Fantastic job Ilona & fantastic modelling Gordon. I immediately thought Assassin’s Creed!!!
heh, that was my first thought as well! Looks like Assassin’s Creed 😀
As I don’t do any knitting or the like, looks especially difficult to me XD
Amazing work! Does Gordon plan on wearing it to any cons or maybe Ren fairs?
Awesome!! A longbow would add a nice finishing touch, and maybe a quiver too! Beautiful work Ilona, and mucho credit to Gordon for agreeing to modeling it!! My husband, if I asked him, would just laugh and go back to whatever he was doing. ?
Longbow or a quarterstaff. Looks great.
Oh yeah, a quarterstaff.
Excellent job congratulations (35 Celsius where I am)
You did an awesome job on this and your hubby looks pretty cool wearing it!!
Looks GREAT!!!
That’s badass Ilona. It looks like your husband just stepped out of Assassin’s Creed (minus the shoes of course lol!).
You are very talented! That looks so complicated . . . great job!
You Go Girl! (snap)
That’s FABULOUS!
GORDON you look like you’re ready for trouble!
That is Just Froggy! Looks Amazing!
Just in time for the cold front.
That’s fantastic work, my fingers ache just looking at it. as soon as I finish a big project I am elated for a very short period of time, then it what next?
YES!! Here too. The cowl is a stunner but looks like horrendously secretly very long term project. Truly a labor of love
Wow that’s amazing.
Beautiful work. The yarn is gorgeous!
A crossbow would also work.
That cowl is freakin’ awesome! It looks a bit like chain mail. And Gordon is a good model for it. He just needs a tunic and surcoat, astride a stallion. It made me think “warrior monk” like a Templar knight on crusade with weary travelers…
…with a sword, of course…. *grin*
+1. It does look like chain mail!! The colors are perfect, and you did an awesome job Ilona!! Did you pick these colors to make it look like chain mail? If so, you hit a homerun! We all know what a talented writer you are, now we know what a talented knitter you are as well!
You two are adorable, it looks great.
Timing is everything. The first time I saw this I thought uggh! and actually felt a full body shiver of disgust. Before the BDH lynch me let me explain that I live in NZ and we’re in the middle of summer in the middle of a heat wave. Just the thought of wearing wool drove me in horror from the computer to the fridge to find a drink. Having had that drink and turned on all the fans in the house I am now in a position to appreciate this awesome piece of work. Gorgeous cowl. Can’t knit to save myself but others in the family can so I can appreciate how much work went into this. It looks fantastic.
Yup, I understand your reaction. Mine might be the same if it was 100° F here. Unfortunately, today’s high is supposed to be -4° with a wind chill of -24°. There’s a wind chill warning up for today through Thursday. Tomorrow’s wind chill is supposed to be -64°. Wish I was in NZ! This is another reason to move to Texas! (Beside my son moving there).
Totally midieval! Cool, and I vote for the quarterstaff.
So impressed by your knitting talent! I have just mastered beanies. Great job!
It really is awesome. So what’s the reason?
Amazing work – love the subtle colours and your husband does a great job of modeling it – well done
That is the best looking cowl I have ever seen – and you made it! Gordon looks great, and makes a pretty good model too. I agree he should wear it at a con, as long as he doesn’t swelter in it. Also, any of the suggested accessories would be fitting: longbow, crossbow, quarterstaff, sword, dagger, or combination thereof.
Awesome !!!
Beautifully knitted. I love Malbrigo Rios – I’ve knitted a couple of things in it. Maybe I’ll try it…
Gordon looks great wearing the excellent cowl. The color is perfect, it looks like chain mail. He needs a longbow and a war horse !
+1 to the war horse! Maybe a Friesian? (Giggle, snort). Like Kristen Britain’s *Green Rider* series. I was going to say like the one Kate took from Hugh, but perhaps that would be too much.
I love the cables, I knit and I know what goes into those!
Congrats on a finished project, 1000 yards, I imagine it felt like it would never be done.
And what a great model too.
Nice! And the model’s not bad either, hee hee!
Almost makes me want to take up knitting, that looks so cool 😉
that’s AMAZING WORK 😀 !
That’s a marvelous piece of costumery… and then I realized YOU HAD KNITTED THE WHOLE THING!!! How many lifetimes did you spend doing that? And the yarn would stretch from the Earth to the moon how many times? Beyond impressive.
Wow fabulous!! Looks great on you Gordon. 🙂
That anyone can knit is always amazing to me. Then to actually create something, especially like this…..Wow! Love it!
How beautiful! I am super impressed. I’m working on an easy infinity scarf and a harder lace pattern cowl but it’s no where near this hard! (or large…)
The cowl looks lovely, and comfortable. Beautiful work. I bought the pattern, and several others from the same designer that I liked. He has some interesting ones.
I’ve been looking at Jeff Gillies’ free pattern for Nakia’s Infinity Scarf from Black Panther. I think it’s gorgeous, especially on Lupita Nyong’o, but the pattern looks hard. I doubt I’m up to it yet.
Right now I’m teaching myself brioche, which is frustrating enough. However, I think I’ve just about got fixing errors in beginner brioche (one color flat) down, but this has been my hardest venture so far. I think when i can reliably fix mistakes I’ll graduate to two color, patterned deigns.
Beautiful work!! It looks great, and if that pattern doesn’t say True Love, I don’t know what does. Really love the yarn choice too. 🙂
Just saw Faerie Knitting – 14 Tales of Love and Magic (includes patterns) by Alice and Lisa Hoffman in a bookstore in Victoria, BC. Would go very well with Gordon’s cowl!
My first knitting project was a scarf or at least it was supposed to be. Everything started out just fine. Then I lost track or something and nearly ended up with what looked like the beginnings of a car cover. Fortunately the instructor was a miracle worker and wrangled it back into the proper width of a scarf. But come to think about it, I could have had the makings of a cowl. Totally unintended, of course. =p
Congrats! It always feels good to finish a big project.
My first thought was the John Flanigan Ranger series. I really like both his series.
So cool! He would fit in well in any medieval cosplay environment. It looks like chain mail, but more comfortable. Impressive. Most impressive.
So cool! It is like the upper part of an armor!