Poncho Progress…
I started my poncho last night! I’m really liking it. Though I’m little afraid of running out of yarns. We’ll have to see. One of the yarn types ended up not working as it was a little too thin in comparison to the rest of the yarns. The poncho is inspired by Wendy’s Not Collinette Ponchos. I do not have a Collinette Poncho kit so I’m sort of making it up as I go along :-) Plus, due to my plus size I wanted to use a more openwork stitch in the hopes of getting a glimpse of my curves beneath the poncho.
I cast on 100 sts on 15(US) needles. So far I’ve used Jaegar’s Luxury Tweed in 829, Linnie’s Nobile in 0009, Paton’s Shetland Chunky in 03608 and Trendsetter’s Coconut in 14. I also have Trendsetter’s Seque in 603, though since I only have 120 yds of that I was thinking of leaving that out and once I’ve pieced the poncho together using it to edge it. But, now I’m thinking I want to use it in the actual poncho pieces. Once I’ve done a pass of each color I’ll weigh them and see how I’m doing. I believe I have a few other yarns in my stash that are no longer ear marked for a project that would fit with this color scheme if I think it’ll be too tight.
I’m using the following stitch pattern:
R1: P all sts
R2: K2TOG, *YO, SSK, K2TOG, YO, SSK*
R3: P all sts, except K1 & P1 into each YO sts from previous row
R4: K2,* K2TOG, YO, SSK,* K2
R5: Repeat R3
Then, repeat Rows 2-5…
This pattern was eeked from the Elann pattern I posted about earlier with chart reading frustrations.
I was worried this might be too intricate for having rapidly changing horizontal colors, but I’m liking it. In fact, when I did three rows of the Patons followed by 3 rows of the Coconut (similar colors, but drastically different textures) I’m thinking it might be too large a chunk of the same color and will probably keep those two colors seperated by the more colorful yarns for the remainder. I’m aiming for two rectangles of about 32 inches X 24 inches. This is slightly larger than the poncho pattern in Sally Mellville’s The Knit Stitch.
I now have 2 balls (~458 yd) of kidsilk haze in 595 that are unspoken for. I’m open for suggestions on what I can do with 2 balls of the kidsilk. Any ideas????? Please????
DH has been working all weekend in hopes of having next week off from weekend through weekend. So, I should get to work myself so I don’t get so annoyed with his being around the house and messing up my work schedule ;-)
Have a fun and safe Labor Day!
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