Swatching for the Jolie Poncho
Whatever I did to my TikTok algorithm has me seeing a lot about the Jolie Poncho lately, and I too have been bit by the poncho bug. I saw this pattern and I absolutely fell in love with it, but not for me. There is one person in my life I could immediately picture having the sort of elegance to rock the hell out of this poncho. That being said, friends and family, proceed with caution on this blog until December 25th as I begin to spoil Christmas presents for minuscule financial gain. The pattern calls for an alpaca/wool yarn held together with a strand of silk mohair. I knew right off the bat that’s not what I wanted. What I wanted was the impossible mission of finding a fuzzy yarn that would still be suitable for fringe, and also machine washable. I don’t want to give the chore of hand-washing as a gift. I’m pretty sure my exact Google search was “fuzzy machine washable yarn” and I found this Luxury Merino Alpaca Dream yarn by Rico Design. They happened to have some in stock a...
