Ponchos in Lion Brand Homespun: Williamsburg and a Scarf in Progress

Poncho 2 in Lionbrand Homespun: Williamsburg

I got the poncho finished that was commissioned! Yaaaaay! The photo above is the new one. I made it about 5 or 6? inches longer than the first one.

As you can see, first one is shorter.

As I recall, I was crocheting it while wearing it during a fireworks show at Wilson Park, with my terrified 3 year old trying her level best to escape the noise of the festive bombardments by crawling head first into my lap. I had to finish off and disuade the attempt to return to the womb. The previous year, both the two youngest had tried to crawl headfirst into my lap.

"Why choose to sit in that particular spot?" I hear you query.

For some reason, my husband and the boys thought being almost directly underneath where the fireworks were shot off would be cool. Since it's always an entire year between fireworks display, I forget the effect it has. Now the only one it would bother would be me, but with the economy as down as it has been, there have been no displays for a number of years.

Poncho 1

Poncho 2

But I digress. The client wanted a longer poncho. This color of yarn has been discontinued for about 10 years, at least. Fortunately I had 5 or 6 skeins in my stash, so I was able to complete the second poncho. My client wanted 3 scarves in this color, but I've got only enough for half of a scarf.

There are two rows of greeny-blue Homespun Waterfall, so far, at the top of the scarf. The scarf is about 6 ft. long, and I'm planning on about 18 inches wide.

This is closer, but my hands are shakey on close-ups.

I've got about 4 to 6 inches in the Williamsburg and one more untouched skein of the same color. I'm going to make three panels: the two outside ones in Williamsburg and the middle panel in Waterfall, which is the color that is on the two rows at the top of the scarf.

The scarf will be about 18 inches wide, and 6 feet long. It's crocheted lengthwise in half double stitch. For half double, you yarn over like you were going to do a double crochet, but pull the yarn through all the loops at once, as if it were a single crochet stitch. On the short ends (18 inches), I'm going to slip stitch all the way around, and then put a border of two double crochet per stitch on each end of the scarf. I plan to have the colors of the border match the colors of the panels, but we'll see if I have enough yarn.