I’d been meaning to make this poncho for a while, and then I discovered some lovely yarn by Yarn Art Flowers, and decided it would look lovely in a child’s poncho.

Began with a 4.5mm hook for opening chain.
then used a 4mm hook throughout.

Working the pattern:
Leaning stitches:
I noticed that the pattern uses every stitch when turning corners (including the ‘hidden’ stitch) and then I looked at projects worked with this pattern and noticed quite a few people saying that their poncho was leaning to one side.

The answer to that is that stitches ‘lean’ and continuous rows of dc (especially if you make slightly high dc’s as I tend to do) will cause the project to lean.

So, rather than trying to work out stitch changes to deal with this, I took the easy way out - All the ‘gap’ rows I did on the wrong side of the poncho.
This worked a treat and didn’t really show at all.

Making the poncho longer:
The pattern is designed to make a shortish poncho, but I wanted to make one normal poncho length for a child (about 3/4 coat length), so I just added 3 or 4 repeats and problem solved.

I love the edging pattern by the way.

Neckline:
the neckline for this pattern is very large. That’s great for Spring, but I still felt it was a little too large (and could imagine a child pulling on it to get it to fit straight).
So I added a row of sc and 2 rows of hdc to the neckline and reduced the number of stitches each round.

I then made a tie (150 chs), threaded it through the ist hdc round, and added a tassel to each end.

And that’s it.
Nice pattern but that leaning does need adjusting.
And I absolutely love the yarn I used!