Poloneck Poncho

I am very lazy when it comes to knitting and so far have avoided knitting anything large; but as it is winter I decided to make a poncho. A searched carefully to find a poncho that I liked the look of, and had a straight forward pattern. I found this great free pattern: Knit a poloneck poncho

I made the entire thing using my size 5.5 100mm circular needles, and this worked fine for me. I also used an acrylic yarn instead of wool because I didn't want to spend too much. 

I already had two balls of grey yarn, so went to the store to buy more for this project, but didn't realise until a few rows into my third ball that there was a slight colour difference in the yarn I had bought (oops!) but I think it looks quite cool and deliberate (I hope).

The pattern was really straight forward to follow, and you just have to knit in the round and increase stitches in each alternate row.

The most tedious part of the project was the tassles, as you have to cut hundreds of lengths of yarn to 40cm, then thread 4 at a time in each stitch, and I managed to do this over a few evenings. The entire project took me about 4 weeks, although I could have done it in 2-3 weeks if I had needed to.

To finish I made the whole thing wet then stretched it and hung it to dry.