WIP – Oakwood Poncho

Note: I’m moving this entry from November 2023, after making the decision to migrate back to Squarespace from Wordpress.

Casting on! I bought a WOTA kit for this Oakwood Poncho by Nikki Wagner way back in 2017. I think the warmer color ways chosen will look nice on my mostly black wardrobe.

This project features a brioche stitch, brioche bind off, and intarsia. Brioche seems like ribbing for folks who want to be ✨fancy✨. Looking forward to adding these methods to my lil repertoire.

The rest of the poncho is an ocean of stockinette, with some cute little tassels on the bottom edges. I decided to go without swatching, since there’s no real fitting necessary for this piece.

The poncho’s construction is pretty simple, too, starting from the bottom edge in the back to the front. Meaning, the novel parts of its construction will come after I’ve done a good amount of warming up with the back panel. Dope.

It was pretty insane to think that I was going to finish this in time for NaKniSweMo. A lot is on my plate already, so maybe it’s just fine to have a simple stockinette project in the WIP pile to work on instead of scrolling all day.