While I was teaching at Knit City Vancouver, just an hour after I had handed my four designs over to our friends Gael and Rebekah Audic, their photoshoot started at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) with Tamiko. One stunning photo after another appeared in our Whats App group! Gael, the photographer, said it was not the photoshoot yet; “we’re just having fun and testing the model”. Rebekah added that the museum was incredible. I am so grateful for these wonderful photos! The cape/poncho/shawl with cowl is knitted by me in the luxurious mYak, Baby Yak Medium using a 4.5 mm/US 7 needle. The pattern is available in English and Norwegian on Ravelry.
Tamiko – many beauties in Japanese – is a cape adorned with cables divided in two by a ribbed neckband. Knitted in one piece with shaping for the neck and tidy double knitted edges to make it hang straight. Wear it as you like; hanging loose across your shoulders as a cape or hanging down along your body as a poncho or thrown across one shoulder like a shawl. Make the matching cowl to wear like a collar. Tamiko is knitted in the gorgeous Baby Yak Medium from mYak. Above you see Rebekah wearing it as a cape, hanging across the shoulders and with the cowl.
Here you can see the totem pole too! Michael added the series of photos of Rebekah together into a short video, see Sequence 01.
Take a look at the detail of the cable and the softness of the yarn made of 100% yak with 117 m/128 yards on each 50 gram skein. Tamiko is knitted with a gauge of 19 stitches and 26 rows/rounds in Stockinette stitch using 4.5 mm/US 7 needle measures 10 cm/4” square after blocking.
The cape from the back. Tamiko is only available in one size, but under notes you will find suggestions on adjusting the width and the length of the cape.
A close up photo of the cables with the totem poles in the background.
This illustrates the qualities of the yak yarn so well; warm and lustrous, lightweight and breathable. I chose the colour grape, but mYak, Baby Yak Medium comes in 37 beautiful shades.
Finally, I will show you from the outside area of the museum, with the mountains in the back. Gael and Rebekah were not the only ones to recommend this museum to me, so when I had time left over I went there too! Tamiko has also been photographed during their western trip from upstate New York to Vancouver and back, at a ranch in Montana.
