I wanted to show this to you in all its pre-blocked glory (click on the photo to go to the Flickr page where you can read all the notes detailing where stuff is going to be neatened up with blocking).

Pattern: Knitting Pure & Simple Children’s Poncho #243
Size: 6 – 8
Yarn: Peace Fleece Worsted, Patience Blue (2 skeins), Hemlock Green (25 yds?), Shaba Green (1 mini-skein) and Zarya Fog (10 yds?)
Needles: US 8/5.0 mm
Modifications:
* worked the first several rows flat instead of in the round for a split neckline
* worked increases 2 sts apart (this threw off the "v" shape of the stripes, though)
* added stripes of color – note to self, next time start new color at back (same note to self made the first time I knit this pattern)
* 3 rounds of reverse stockinette instead of garter hem – 2 rounds probably would have been enough
* 2 rounds of single crochet edging around neckline
* no hood or fringe (ran out of yarn – I have been stashbusting)

The inside – all ends woven in and waiting to be snipped. There were a lot of ends; I wound up frogging the Tillie sample and using all the little oddballs I had left over from that.

I am ever so far behind on getting this done and sending it out.

This is the first poncho I made from this pattern, shown here running around Sauvie Island back in September of 2006. It was too small for this young man back then – it is now MUCH too small. I got carried away with ideas about how to modify the pattern and got bogged down in details. I have a few inches of neck and shoulder shaping hibernating on needles; I think I can now safely frog that and use the yarn for something else, perhaps a hooded jacket for the young mister? Off to search Ravelry!