Bear poncho

Fresh off Amelia's needles! It's the Build a Bear Fab Poncho!

The pattern was conceived by Hornblower & tweaked by Amelia.

Materials: 1 ball of Patons allure *
6.5 mm needles

On 6.5 mm needles, cast on 20 stitches. **
1st row, knit across.
2nd row, increase by 1 at each side.
3rd row, increase by 1 at each side.
4th row, repeat row 1
5th row, repeat row 2
6th row, repeat row 3.
And so on. Cast off when your material is about 5 inches long (to fit a 16 inch Build a Bear)

You'll have a trapezoid.
Do it again so you'll have 2 trapezoids. Sew them together, so that the 20 stitch rows are the neck opening & the pointy 'trapezoidy' parts are the pointy poncho parts at the front & back.

*(One ball is just right. If you happened to use some of the yarn to make a small poncho for a little mermaid earlier in the week, you may find that you end up doing weird cast-off maneuvers because you run out of yarn......)

**We started with 20 because Cleopatra has a fat head but the fit would probably have been a bit nicer with 15. It's a bit sloppy on the neck & Amelia is considering putting some fun fur trim to gather it a bit tighter.




Here's a close-up of Cleopatra, the Build a Bear in her fab poncho.