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COWL NECK PONCHO

I promised my sister back in September that I would crochet her a replica of my cowl neck poncho. The original pattern is from Simply Crochet Magazine and there are many versions of it on various blogs. Lucy from Attic 24 did a lovely version that was faithful to the original pattern apart from colour choice and the edging used. I have to say, I'm not a fan of the fringe on the original pattern. I could see it getting tangled and tatty, so chose to use Lucy's edging  instead (she has a lovely, easy to follow tutorial).


Mr. took this photo of me in my newly crocheted poncho when out walking the dogs (just in shot). As you can probably detect, I'm not a fan of being snapped!

I decided against the multi-coloured look and plumped for colours that go with my what I tend to wear, using cream, denim blue and earthy brown, crocheted in blocks of colour. My sister also fell in love with the colours, as they pretty much go with everything.  I had just enough of the blue and brown yarn, which I bought from Aldi a couple of years ago. For the cream, I used Stylecraft 'Starling' which has lovely flecks in it.


This was a lovely project, and didn't require too much thinking second time around, always a plus for me. It's was also doable in a fairly short time. I managed to complete it in just under two weeks. Of course my original took longer, as I had to get to grips with the front post, back post stitch used in the cowl.






On  the original poncho I crocheted, I increased the foundation chain from 84 to 96, and as my sister looked great in mine, I kept to the same number of chains. 




The cowl is quite loose and when finished,  folds over nicely.



I really loved doing this for my sister and she was over the moon with it.  She even let me take a picture, as long as the only one I put on my blog was the back view.


This was taken on Tuesday,  in the car park of our lunchtime venue, Yandles . It's a hobby and craft centre that has a lovely little café.  We met up with our Step-Mum and had a lovely lunch then pootled around the onsite gallery which is full of artisan goodies and well worth a visit. 

I was particularly proud of myself........ I went into the wool section and came out empty handed!  











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