Luxury Plaid Tunisian Poncho – Right Handed Instructions

This poncho is made with the C2C Entrelac technique using Tunisian crochet. It also has a faux fur trim to give it a luxurious feel and look!

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Pattern

This pattern is available for free on my blog. The chart for this pattern is different for left and right handed people so I have separate instructions for them. You can find the left handed instructions here:
– Luxury Plaid Tunisian Poncho – Left handed instructions

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The yarn

The Caron Simply Soft yarn is very easy to work with. It is very soft and not too heavy which made it great to make this poncho!

The Lion Brand Go For Faux yarn is perfect for the trim. It finishes up the poncho nicely and gives it a very luxurious look and feel!

What you will need

Yarn: Medium weight / Worsted weight / CYC4 yarn and Faux Fur yarn. I used:
- Caron Simply Soft yarn in colors: Black – 10 oz / 300 g / 550 yards / 500 m (2 skeins), White – 8 oz / 225 g / 425 yards / 400 m (2 skeins), Grey Heather – 18 oz / 500 g / 900 y / 800 m (4 skeins)
- Lion Brand Go For Faux yarn in color Black Panther – 8 yards / 7 m (1 skein)
Hook: 8 mm Tunisian crochet hook
Scissors
Tapestry needle to weave in tails

Experience level

Intermediate

Sizing

One size: Approximately 30” (76 cms) length at center back x 42” (106 cms) wide

The pattern is written for one size but is easily adjustable. See Adjustments section below.

Gauge

5 rows of 7 Tunisian Simple stitches is a 2 inch square.

Adjustments

To adjust length: add / remove equal number of rows in the front and back panels.
To adjust width: add / remove equal number of columns on each side.

Resources

Photo and video (left and right handed) tutorials for Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques used in this pattern:

Instructions

I strongly recommend viewing the ‘follow along’ video tutorial mentioned in the Resources section before you start making the Poncho. It covers all the basics of making this poncho and it has some very useful tips too (it shows how the yarn can be carried in the back for diagonals with alternating colors so you won’t have a million ends to weave in)!
This pattern is made using the C2C entrelac technique. Start at the bottom left corner and work your way up in diagonals (making squares of 9 rows of 12 Simple Stitches) until you reach the top right corner. See the Resources section for a detailed video to follow along.
The types of squares are mentioned as T1, T2, T3 and T4. The instructions for each square type are mentioned in the C2C Entrelac tutorial.
The blue lines indicate the edges of the poncho. The blue line in the front section divides the front panel into two.
Because the blue line divides one column of front squares into two halves, the number of stitches are different in the halved squares from the rest.
- All squares divided by the blue line in the front panel are split into two rectangles made up of 9 rows of 6 Tunisian Simple Stitches.
- All other squares are made up of 9 rows of 12 Tunisian Simple Stitches.
After you have made the poncho, attach the faux fur yarn at any corner of the poncho. Sew the faux fur yarn along the entire edge of the poncho for a luxurious feel!
- If you would rather crochet than sew the faux fur yarn, you could make a row of (sc, ch1)* across the border in black color and then crochet the faux fur yarn with a larger hook by inserting your hook into the chain spaces.

Pattern

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Briana Rose Baumann

Thursday 4th of November 2021

Hi Arunima, I really need some help. I have tried this pattern now 4 times and all rows on all 3 squares are very crooked off by 3- should be 12 stitches right? I am getting 9. Also, the corner pieces are exceptionally loose. Any chance you can help me? I have tried several different things to straighten it out and its a no-go. Granted I don’t have a ton of experience with this type of crochet, but I do have experience with crochet and this is stumping me! I have taken several pictures and I think I’m going to video tape myself so I can see what is going on if you can help. I love this pattern and I hope I can get it done as a Christmas gift. ????

Arunima

@Briana Rose Baumann, Hello Briana, I sent you an email too but in case you don't see it, please send me some pictures (knitterknotter@gmail.com) and I would be more than happy to help you with this.

Hi Arunima, I really need some help. I have tried this pattern now 4 times and all rows on all 3 squares are very crooked off by 3- should be 12 stitches right? I am getting 9. Also, the corner pieces are exceptionally loose. Any chance you can help me? I have tried several different things to straighten it out and its a no-go. Granted I don't have a ton of experience with this type of crochet, but I do have experience with crochet and this is stumping me! I have taken several pictures and I think I’m going to video tape myself so I can see what is going on if you can help. I love this pattern and I hope I can get it done as a Christmas gift. :)

Nelly

Thursday 3rd of June 2021

Hello, I can’t find the link to the “free pattern on my blog”....I am going round and round. I realize that you have to monetize your work on your website by increasing “clicks” but it has been impossible and very frustrating and has caused me to finally write to you and all the wonderful designers you are affiliated with to give you all a heads up as to what you are doing to your faithful followers...... Please take note, I support all of you financially and I have purchased emagazines and many patterns but we can’t buy them all, so to enjoy a freebie once in a while is much appreciated, if we can even attempt to get it, which l can’t in this instance. The wecrochet group designers, briannak, makeanddocrew, joyofmotion, to name a few, are all brilliant and wonderful - EXTREMELY TALENTED AND GIFTED - but your websites, with the infinitesimal ads, popping up endlessly and the number of clicks requires to navigate all of your websites is causing so much wasted time and frustration - and I want to continue to support you all! Please consider what you are all doing as it’s extremely excessive. Also please note, I have the latest iPad Pro yet I have difficulties galore - imagine your other followers with less tech.... Instead of gaining followers you so totally risk losing them. Thank you for listening and please relay this to all of your wonderful group! My most kindest regards, Nelly

Monday 7th of June 2021

@Nelly, thank you again for your support, I have an action item to improve the layout of my blog posts and I will start working on it soon.

Please check your email, I sent you a message earlier and want to make sure you received it.

Regards, Arunima

Friday 4th of June 2021

@Arunima, Thank you most kindly for listening and replying! I wish all of you great designers the best of the best! I will always continue to support you and I’m hoping it will be easier to navigate in the future! You are truly most kind to listen and realize that I mean you all well and wish great success for you all because you are all extremely gifted! It’s wonderful that a group of young women have embraced the crochet world and are giving us.... “Curated designs for the modern woman!” Kindest regards, Nelly

@Nelly, Hello Nelly, I understand your frustration and I am going to try to make it better in whatever way I can. I am really grateful that you took the time to understand why the bloggers you mentioned (including me) have ads on our websites.

My ad publisher takes care of ad placement for every page on my website. I have disabled some ads (ones that show up on images - those would increase my income by a significant amount but I chose to give that up for a slightly better experience for my users), but this is the only way I can afford to offer free patterns. I am sorry the experience is so overwhelming and frustrating for you.

In this instance, you have come to the right place for the pattern. There are no row-wise instructions, it is mostly the chart that you need to follow. The notes in the 'Instructions' section are all you need. I'd pretty much recreate the C2C entrelac instructions if I included them here so I just linked to them since I have a separate post for them. I recommend viewing the support video, that will be immensely helpful. All you really need is the chart and to go over the video OR photo tutorial for C2C entrelac once.

Thank you for stopping by to leave your comments here, I will seriously reconsider the layout of my pattern posts and see what I can do to make it easier to read them in the future.

Best, Arunima