How to Create a Crochet Poncho with Flower Motifs

You’ll Need:

400g of red Merino Extrafine (100% sheep wool; 125m/50g);

Crochet hooks 4 and 4.5;

Circular knitting needles 4.5.

Instructions

For the upper stripe of flower motifs, connect RND 1: 24 flower motifs (12 x 2 motifs size) and circle it in a ring.

For the lower stripe, connect RND 2: 36 flower motifs (18 x 2 motifs size) and circle it in a ring.

Work with crochet hook 4, start with 3 chain sts increase instead of the 1^st double crochet and finish with 1 slip stitch in the 3^rd chain stitch increase.

Then, work with net pattern, make 5 chain sts for each arch in the 1^st-4^th circle row, and make 4 chain sts for each arch in the 5^th-7^th circle rows. Finish your work for neck-hole after the 7^th circle row.

Make 215 double crochets along the lower edge of the upper stripe (= 18 double crochets for 11 motifs and 17 double crochets for 1 motif).

Then, work with net pattern, make 5 chain sts for each arch in the 1^st-6^th circle row, and make 6 chain sts for each arch in the 7^th-8^th circle rows. Leave all the stitches after the 8^th circle row.

Make 215 double crochets (= 12 double crochets for 17 motifs and 11 double crochets for 1 motif).

Connect the lower flower stripe with the last row of net pattern in the next row as follows:

• 1 chain stitch instead of the 1^st single crochet,
• * 3 chain sts, 1 single crochet in the arch of net pattern, 3 chain sts, 1 single crochet in the next 5^th double crochet of the circle row of double crochets*;
• Repeat from * to *, finish with 3 chain sts, 1 single crochet in the last arch of net pattern, 3 chain sts, and 1 slip stitch in chain stitch increase.

Make a fringe of picots along the lower edge of the lower stripe, making 272 single crochets in the 1^st circle row (= 15 single crochets for 16 motifs and 16 single crochets for 2 motifs).

Assembly

Cast on 132 sts along the neck-hole with circular knitting needles and make a collar with rib in circle rows. At 21 cm height of the collar, bind off all the stitches according to the pattern.

Make a flower and sew it to the poncho.