A gorgeous, deep, glowing, burgundy microfiber chenille was in my yarn collection for about 15 years before the perfect project came along. The yarn would be gorgeous in the pink and black poncho I was making. Even though the last project I made with chenille grew ‘worms,’ this chenille was of much better quality (well, it was a lot more expensive, anyway). It would be fine.
It wasn’t fine. The chenille grew worms almost immediately.
In the meantime, Eva made a couple of ponchos with Lion Brand Fun Fur in the last couple of rounds. They looked so good, I decided to do the same on my poncho. Luckily the chenille round was only third from the end, with two mohair rounds after it. If you’ve worked with mohair, you know the impossibility of ripping it out, so I cut off those rounds.
This was right after Christmas, and Michael’s ran a sale on a number of wonderful yarns, including Lion Brand Fancy Fur and Fun Fur. They were $2.00 per ball—an absolute bargain! Two rounds of fuchsia Fancy Fur and two rounds of black Fun Fur later, my poncho was finally done.
