This is a Christmas present for my step-mother, Rosemary. It was crocheted from Moda Dea Dream in the Pecan color from the Quick & Easy Ponchos leaflet. It’s the second photo on that page. Their model was made with Moda Dea Zing but I thought the Dream yarn would suit my step-mother better. The pattern calls for sport weight yarn but Moda Dea Dream is worsted weight and my gauge came out fine.

This is a simple, forgiving pattern. The yarn is a pleasure to work with because it’s so soft and with such a simple pattern, where you only work into spaces, not stitches, I didn’t have a problem with its overall fuziness. It doesn’t frog very well, of course, but luckily I didn’t need to do much of that. The only thing I didn’t like about this yarn was how often I had to change skeins because each skein is so small. This open work poncho took seven skeins.

Here’s a close-up of the yarn and pattern.