Crochet Golden Poncho

You’ll need:

27 skeins of gold (00081) Schachenmayr Soft Linen Mix Color yarn (70% viscose, 30% linen; 93m/50g);

Crochet hook 4,5.

Stitches control: 24 sts x 8 rows = 10 x 10 cm.

Instructions

Back

Make 264 chain sts, for the 1st double crochet, insert crochet hook in the 6th st from the crochet hook, make 66 rows due to the scheme.

Left Front

Make 128 chain sts, for the 1st double crochet, insert crochet hook in the 6th st from the crochet hook, make 66 rows due to the scheme, starting from the 55th row, make decreases for neck-hole due to the scheme.

Right Front

Make in symmetry.

Assembly

Make shoulder seams, fasten the edges of poncho with arches of chain sts due to the scheme. Sew both halves of front and back in the 45th row for sleeves to 27 cm wide with “back-needle” seam. For fringe, cut 136 threads of yarn 40 cm long and weave bundles of fringe (2 threads eacg) in the arches of chain sts, then cut the yarn to 15 cm long.