My first poncho

 

Season’s greetings my new friends,

I hope the New Year of 2016 has been treating you well. I’m sure you all have made some new year resolutions just as I have. So how many of you have already broken at least one (if not all)?? Me? I didn’t make any hard ones. In fact I just made one. Complete all my WIPs. So far I’ve made good progress. I’ve completed the 4 square poncho I started last year. It was a really simple pattern designed by Helen Shrimpton from http://www.crystalsandcrochet.com/  I just made a few modifications. You can find the original design on her Ravelry page (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/4-square-poncho) Its a free download.

For some time I’d been hearing about the corner to corner designs. Commonly called C2C. My fingers had been itching to try it but I didn’t want to start a blanket cause I already had too many wips. So when I saw this poncho pattern I knew it’d be perfect to scratch the itch I had. Now the next hurdle was the size. The design was for an adult and I wanted to make it for my little toddler.

I realized that all I had to do was make the initial squares smaller than the 12” the design called for. I used a light fingering weight yarn (the only kind locally available) and a 4mm hook. I made my squares 10” added a double crochet edging around making it close to 11” and then did a flat braid join to join the squares. In all other design elements I followed the designer’s suggestions. And there it is, my baby girl’s first poncho!