Adrian wants a knitted poncho. He had one, which he outgrew, and then another one which he also outgrew, and now I can’t find anything remotely suitable in his size. So I’ll try and knit one. I haven’t had great success with my more advanced knitting projects but a simple poncho, with a simple shape, should be the right kind of project for me.

He asked for green and blue and maybe some more colours and a snowflake pattern. I’m thinking green for the bottom half and blue for the top, and a pixelated gradient between the two, and white snowflakes on the blue.

Challenge 1: all the snowflake patterns I find are for eight-armed snowflakes, which are easy to design but not what snowflakes look like. I want anatomically correct snowflakes, more or less. Finally I found a second-hand sweater for sale on an auction site, that had six-armed snowflakes on it. The photos were sharp enough for me to copy the pattern from them. Yay!

Challenge 2: none of the pixelated gradient patterns I found look like what I want. They have a bit of a gradient but the actual transition from one colour to another is too sudden. I want something softer. I may have to make my own pattern for that.