Ysoria Hood

When my son needed an outfit for his Anglo Saxons and Vikings history day at school, I took inspiration from the Skjoldehamn costume, a well-preserved outfit from the Early Middle Ages, found in marshy land in Northern Norway. As I sewed the hood pieces together, I realised that it would be a wonderful garment to make use of large crocheted squares and thought how warm and comforting it would feel. This pattern was originally designed for the Once Upon a Make-along Medieval fairytale event, which seemed the perfect opportunity to revive that idea and create a block with floral features, making a hood that’s ideal to keep a woodland fairy princess warm as she travels through her tale to our time. Following the event, this pattern is now available as an individual file. **Sizes**: child S, child L, adult designed with positive ease in mind. Note that child L has a proportionately deeper yoke than the other two. **Tension**: 30cm/12” square block has 25 rows and 136 sts; 4 2chsp in outer round, after blocking. **Working method**: blocks are worked in joined rounds from RS. Pieces are seamed and edged. **Finished measurements** a. Hood length: 25 (30, 30)cm / 10 (12, 12)” b. Hood depth: 25 (30, 35)cm / 10 (12, 14)” c. Neck circumference: 25 (30, 35)cm / 10 (12, 14)” d. Shoulder width: : 25 (30, 25)cm / 10 (12, 10)” e. Yoke length: 33 (41, 33)cm / 13 (16, 13)” f. Edge circumference: 150 (180, 160)cm / 60 (72, 64)” **Requirements** Drops Nepal Aran/worsted (65% Superwash Merino, 35% Alpaca; 150m/165yds per 50g) or similar yarn Sample in: C1 Chalk (8915); C2 Blue Ice (6220) C1: 400 (500, 450)m / 440 (550, 500)yd C2: 700 (780, 750)m / 770 (860, 825)yd 5mm (US H/8) hook 5 locking stitch markers Yarn needle and scissors I sometimes add extra resources for my patterns, e.g. yarn substitutions, adaptations, styling suggestions or helpful video clips as updates on my original [blog post][2] for the release, so consider checking it out. [1]: https://www.madewithloveandfibres.com/subscribe-to-mails [2]: https://www.madewithloveandfibres.com/post/stitch-your-way-to-fairy-tale-style-with-the-ysoria-hood-crochet-pattern