​Knit Poncho with Squares

You’ll need:

600g of beige Sportic yarn (70% polyacryl, 30% wool; 75m/50g);

Long circular knitting needles 6.

Size: S-M.

Used Patterns

Stockinette stitch: in RS row – knit sts, in WS row – purls;

Wrong-side pattern: in RS row – purls, in WS row – knit sts;

Big pearled pattern: 1^st row: 1 knit st, 1 purl by turn;

2^nd and 4^th rows: due to the pattern;

3^rd row: 1 purl, 1 knit st by turn.

Repeat 1^st-4^th rows.

Cross-over pattern: 2 rows of stockinette stitch, 2 rows of wrong-side pattern by turn.

Relief motif (18 sts wide): due to the scheme, on which only RS rows are stated, make WS rows due to the pattern or as stated, yarn overs – as purls. Repeat 1^st-34^th rows x once.

Pattern order A (18 sts wide): 34 rows of big pearled pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of big pearled pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern.

Pattern order B (18 sts wide): 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of big pearled pattern.

Pattern order C (18 sts wide): 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of relief motif, 34 rows of cross-over pattern, 34 rows of big pearled pattern.

Stitches control: 14 sts x 26 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Front/Back

Cast on 92 sts and work in the following way: 1 selvage st, 18 sts of pattern order A, B, C, A and C, 1 selvage st. In 39,5 cm = 102 rows from the set-up row, bind off 36 sts from the left side for V-shape neck-hole. In 65,5 cm = 170 rows from the set-up row, bind off all the sts.

Assembly

Make shoulder seams; cast on 154 sts along the neck-hole line and work with cross-over pattern, at first, make 2 circle rows of wrong-side pattern and make 3 sts together as broaching (slip knit2tog, 1 knit st, draw it through the slipped sts) in the center of front and back in every wrong-side pattern row and every circle row. At 4 cm height of the placket = 10 circle rows, bind off the rest 114 sts as knit sts.