The cape & cowl Tamiko was also modelled by Rebekah Audic, photographed by her husband Gael, at a friend’s ranch in Montana. Here you can see Tamiko worn like a poncho but looking more like a dress with the belt, a new way of wearing it that Rebekah discovered!

Tamiko is knitted in the gorgeous mYak Baby Yak Medium, using a 4.5 mm/US 7 needle, worn as a shawl.

Here is another belted view, where Tamiko looks like a dress. The cape/poncho/shawl is worked sideways with shaping for the neck opening, at the center of the cape.

The cape worn here like a poncho measures 80 cm/31.5” wide and 203.5 cm/80” long, but you will find adjusting tips in the pattern.

Wear the Tamiko as a shawl and you can view the back side of cable visible – like a geometric pattern.

My first intention with this design was to wear it as a cape and use the cowl as a high collar.

Here is my introduction to the pattern: 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.

The cowl is worked in the round with ribbing on the inside and the ends are grafted together on cowl, as you can see in the photo above.

The cape is knitted with a 19 stitches and 26 rows/rounds in Stockinette stitch gauge using 4.5 mm/US 7 needle measures 10 cm/4” square after blocking.

Wear it like a cape, or should I say a blanket across your shoulders.

Here it is again worn as poncho, seen from the side, but this time without a belt.

Yet another side view, when wearing Tamiko as a Cape, across the shoulders.

And action …

The cowl is 18 cm/7” wide and has a 58 cm/22.75” circumference.

You can easily wrap yourself in Tamiko, as Rebekah chose to do, sitting on the fence. It will come as no surprise from seeing all these brilliant photos of the gorgeous Rebekah, that this is the design she chose to keep for being such a marvellous model for me! Thank you ever so much, Gael & Rebekah!