Waffles are Addicting

And I finished two more scarves!  I am trying to use up some odds and ends of yarn and making scarves seems to be the perfect way to do it.  In fact, I played AND WON yarn chicken with the pink mandala yarn! I used every last bit! Woo!

The other one some soft green yarn I had, which wasn’t enough for a full scarf so I converted it into a shorter twist:

Waffle Stitch Scarf

I really like this stitch for fall/winter items.  It’s so thick and has that great 3d texture.In my shop now!

It’s Fall ya’ll! Finished Waffle Stitch Fringed Poncho!

With the fringe and the border, I feel this falls solidly in “small” size. I’m 5’3” and the sides come down to my elbows and the points are around my hip area.  I like how it came out quite a bit, now I just need lots of fall color yarn to make some more.  I used Plymouth Encore yarn my mom had given me, which are only 200yd skeins, and it took 2 for each 30×15 panel and another for the border and fringe.  So roughly 5 total. I would have purchased 6 to be safe. Fortunately I had 10 so I was able to dip into the 6th for a few of the fringe.  Skeins are never 200 perfectly as it is.

Fixing Things

Well I added a collar, and a border, and working on the fringe.  It’s definitely a size small but I think I salvaged it for something other than a 7 year old at least.

MEASUREMENTS

I don’t really understand why I have such miserable luck with clothing crochet patterns. I found a really cute poncho pattern that required two pieces sewn together.  I picked the S/M size and I kept saying to myself, ‘you should do a muslin first’ .  I felt like it would be way too small, and when chaining the recommended chains (65) I said to myself, hey now, I chain 65 for a HAT, that’s not big enough for a poncho.

So, I took out a tape measure and measured out the S/M in inches instead.  That was 92 chains instead of 65.  But guess what?

This barely comes down to my elbows on the sides.  I should have known better.    I put it on my 12 year old and it was a little small even for him.  Sigh.  I knew I should have listened to my uh, maths?    I would have needed to have extended each piece by about a foot in height and length!

I am going to try to salvage this by putting a  border around the whole thing but I just really don’t get how it would have worked.  It also called for a DC border around the neck (it’s small enough as it is).  I can add maybe 6 more inches as a border but any more would look silly.  Well, live and learn I suppose.  Add it to the pile of other inaccurate things until I made revisions like the mandala duster and sweater coat.