Ponchos are a great accessory to snazz up any outfit. While they work well with casual duds such as jeans and sweatshirts, they are a great way to keep your shoulders warm and a neat way to spruce up your look. However, they also go really well in a more elegant circumstances as well.
A long dress, a business suit or fancy slacks and heels will all be equually at home with a crocheted poncho. Here are two ideas, with the Sunset Poncho being a thicker, but less densely stitched garment, whereas the Elergant Poncho is a denser, more drapey item with a loose collar.
Sunset Poncho Free Crochet Pattern
Whitney Poncho Free Crochet Pattern
To seam, or not to seam, that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to wearThe Whitney as a poncho of beauty and warmth,Or to wear it around a shoulder bare or cloth’dWrapped as a scarf aroun’d.The Bard wouldn’t have this dilemma. He would have made one of each, a seamed poncho and a non-seamed scarf, to wear as his outfit and the weather dictated.
Elegant Poncho Free Crochet Pattern
The Elegant Poncho is a denser, more drapey item with a loose collar. This poncho is made with the Tunisian honeycomb stitch.