Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Head Honcho Poncho

Finally, here she is, in her 'Head Honcho Poncho' (from Zoe Mellor's 'Nursery Knits' book)

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It's not quite as big as I was hoping (and the lady's going through a growth spurt) but I hope she'll be wearing it for a good while yet, until it starts to look a bit silly!

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For those of you that might be interested, I knitted it using Cascades 220 Yarn, 5 different coloured skeins.  It was a heavier weight than the pattern called for but I used the same size needles so it just knitted up a bit denser... and warmer.  My mum gets the credit for the neck as I went into panic mode when the pattern didn't match the picture.

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The hat was a 50c thrift store find. 
 
 
  
 



2 comments:

  1. THRIFT STORE????!!!!!!!!!! come on Hughes!! your still from the North west of England love - chazzer shops i think youll find, is the correct term ;)
    Nice Ugly Betty poncho! lovin it xx

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  2. Oops, looks like I'm becoming North Americanised ... probably end up sounding like Lloyd Grosman in a couple of years! Sorry, I'm completely media illiterate these days (we don't have cable anymore) so I've never seen Ugly Betty - is it good?

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