Easygoing Swoncho #2 (Knit)

I knit another Easygoing Swoncho (sweater-poncho combo) and this time I made the sleeves longer. On the first one I ran out of yarn, so the sleeves were short, but for this Swoncho, I wanted to destash some more yarn, so I used a variety of yarn that I had on hand and combined yarns and knit until I ran out of yarn and then added another yarn, giving this swoncho a variegated stripe look. I like how the colors of yarn blended. After I blocked it the neckline was a bit too loose, causing it to fall off my shoulders when worn. I will have to adjust that and perhaps take a few stitches in to tighten that area up before I can wear it in the fall.

This is a Free Pattern from Cascade Yarns.

I held 2 yarns together as I knit this in the round. I added a new yarn when I ran out of yarn.

I am knitting a different sweater now using all the partial and miscellaneous skeins of yarn that I have on hand to create a rather scrappy colorful looking sweater. Sort of like Joseph's Coat of Many Colors, only it's knit rather than sewn and a pullover sweater rather than a coat. I do like colorful and scrappy, and using up my yarn stash is a huge bonus rather than buying lots of skeins of just one color. If I can use up my fabric to make scrappy quilts and bags, then why not do the same with my yarn scraps?

Happy knitting, crocheting, and sewing!

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Easygoing Knit Swoncho

I saw the Easygoing Swoncho online recently and love how this looked. It is a combination of a knit poncho and sweater (hence the name, Swoncho). I like the look of most ponchos, but they just don't look or hang right on me and I tend to fiddle with them as they slide off my shoulder or twist somehow, ugh! Plus, how to you carry a bag/purse with a poncho? Under the poncho? It won't fit over one very well, at least not on me. This Swoncho looks a bit like a poncho, but behaves more like a pullover sweater and I love that! It has normal sleeves, not those sleeves at the forearms with the huge gap under the arms! I don't think I would like those, even though I never ever tried one on before.

This was an easy knit too, a huge bonus for me! The only thing I had to change is the length of the sleeves and only because I knew I didn't have enough yarn to knit to the wrists or even 3/4 sleeves, which is what I prefer. I wasn't sure when to to stop knitting, since I had to knit 2 sleeves and didn't want to run out of yarn on the second sleeve. I ended up with a small amount of yarn leftover, but it would have only added 1/2"+ to each sleeve if I had known in advance that I could have knit a bit more on each sleeve. I need to try this on now that it has been blocked and see what I think of the sleeve length on me. I quickly tried it on before blocking it and it hits about my elbows on the sleeve length. I used my hand dyed yarn that I dyed myself years ago. I used a double strand, since this was thinner weight yarn than the instructions called for.

If I love how this looks and feels on me (and that still needs to be determined), I might try making another one with the longer sleeves and using up a lot of my various leftover yarn amounts, blending them in as I knit.

Knit with 2 yarns held together throughout that I hand dyed myself.

Center stitches down front (back and sleeves also have this same stitching).

Bottom edging closeup.

Sleeve closeup.

Find the FREE pattern on Cascade Yarns HERE.  Thank you Cascade Yarns for this free pattern!

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