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today i'm going to share with you the poncho pattern i fell in love with last thursday. mary from the habitat books knit group, a beginner, made this fabulous poncho. i loved everything about it: the shape, the drape, the simple origami construction. i don't think it could get any simpler or any more elegant.
here's how mary made hers:
easy, huh? knitted back and forth all the way; no purling! wow, i thought, what an excellent design. except... except...
friday night i sat here sketching up this pattern thinking "hm, sew. hm hm hm. why can't this poncho be knitted without that pesky sewing bit?" right then the force of the righteous elizabeth zimmermann whacked me in on the back of my head. after i regained consciousness, i unvented this:
the vertical slit is for the neck opening. it's shown as a gap for visualization. knitted up, the two edges should be touching.
there you have it, two ways of making the same simple hippie beast. while i prefer the seamlessness of the second pattern, it does present some complications.
. length of knitting is twice as long at the original pattern, meaning twice longer
needles and potentially tedious knitting.
. if you use a variegrated yarn, the stripes may appear out of sync changing
from full to half length.
. there's that uncomfortable second yarn.
. not everyone prefers weaving/grafting to sewing.
what do you think? clever or boneheaded? practical or waste of time? i'd love to hear from you. i'm completely obsessed with ponchos right now. if you made one or are making one, please let me know your choice of pattern and yarn. if you happen to be planning on making one, may be i could interest you in a poncho-along? ponchalong, anyone?
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