Saturday 5 January 2019

The poncho knitting pattern that took three tries


Finally finished, after 10 months. I had to rip out and restart this poncho knitting pattern three times. The pattern requires wrapping the wool (Rowan Big Wool) around the needle 10 times for each stitch, and there just isn't enough room, even on the extra-long needles I bought specially; the work falls off the end: frustrating. So I reworked the pattern to wrap the wool five times around instead and I knitted twice the number of rows.

It's a stitch that I liked for its fast-growing results and I've used it since.