Easy Clint Poncho

Easy Clint

Easy Clint is a knitted Poncho named after Clint Eastwood, the only actor with a poncho I know (watch Sergio Leone’s films). I made it using a Venetian Red fine  new wool.

It is easy and quick to be made.

Beside you can see the sketch this project started from.

Below an image showing a different way to wear it.

These are the materials used:

• 800 gr of Venetian Red fine new wool,
• 1 wooden button;
• Needles 5mm;
• Crochet 4 mm;
• yarn needle.

Easy Clint & the Needles

Stitches:

• Double seed stitch;
• 1K/1p ribs;
• Single crochet.

I made Easy Clint using the simple poncho’s pattern you can see below.

The Easy Clint Poncho schematic

The measurements are referred to a woman wearing an XS miss petite size, if you want to reply it and make a poncho that looks like the one I designed, just remember to verify the proportions (experimenting with an old blanket for instance).

I knitted the rectangles using two threads of wool yarn together and I finished the edges with a single crochet row. Then I joined them together as shown in the scheme using the crochet hook.

I completed the neck sewing a 1k/1p ribbed band (knitted using once again a double thread of wool yarn) and then sewing on it an ornamental wooden button.

Finally I finished the Easy Clint Poncho edges with a fringe.

The fringe

Related articles form the blog: The shape of things; The “Easy Clint” project.

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