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I know spring is approaching, so I was thinking of a pair of light fingerless gloves with a small old far west lure ... What do you think, are you in, too ? The construction is very simple : you need to crochet 2 basic granny squares and then embellish them with some colourful fringes !!! I crocheted them in just one afternoon !!!! WHAT YOU NEED I've been working with : a 4 mm hook a 50 g acrylic yarn ball from  Filatura Cervinia CAPRICE  shade denim blue (gloves) small amount of  Sirdar COUNTRY STYLE wool blend DK  shade 397 periwinkle ( for top/bottom/thumb borders) small amount of  TIGER garn/yarn (plied) ,  Sirdar Wash'n'Wear Double Crepe DK  shade Original Denim,  CHARITY Double Knit Pullskein  shade 011 silver grey and  Filati Cervinia CAPRICE  shade orange (fringes) a pair of scissors a yarn needle Please remember that I follow the US crochet termilogy, thank you ! You need to know how to crochet...

I started to crochet my first granny square for my jumper-to-be on last 4th of October... ... and little by little, crocheting on a daily basis, I added rounds after rounds ... ... while I was working on other two w.i.p.s, like my  PONCHO  and the  GEODE PILLOW  ... ... and when I completed 26 rounds for the first granny, I wanted to block it to see its real measures : it reaches 74 cm for each side (more or less!) ... The yarns I've been using were all from my personal stash, no new yarn was bought for this project and some are discontinued, while others I have no more the band with all the details or brand. I will try to give you a kind of yarn list, starting from the center of the granny (I was working with a 6mm hook, btw) : KATIA AZTECA shade 7837  fuchsia-maroon-brown (53%wool, 47%acrylic) FILATI TROPICAL LANE SPENDOBENE SUPER SPORT shade 266  off white (47%merino wool, 53%dralon) FILATI TROPICAL LANE SPENDOBENE SUP...

I picked this book from one of my bookcases... ... and on page 26 I fell in love with this design ... .... any personal "revolution" from the original pattern??? ;oD Well well well ... For sure, I did use different yarns and colours (from top to bottom) : Pure Gold DK 005 midnight Filati Sandilane ATOMO 26 silver Robin Double Knit 0027 grey Pure Gold DK 036 ivory Kartopu AK-Soft K657 Pure Gold DK 059 azzure Kartopu AK-Soft K634 Moda Vera LUMINO 80280225 neon yellow and around the neck :  Pure Gold DK 206 blossom  and some silver grey from ATOMO (see list). ... and the hook was not a 3,3mm as suggested, but a 4mm, so my poncho is bigger than the original one .... !!!!! ... I was excited when it reached the right size to try it on ... my lady manikin ... ... but still some rounds to add ... .... neck detail... ... some blocking ... .... and it's DONE !!!! The fringes are made both with the...