Is that infamous poncho really attractive?!

I share your opinion. It=B4s really UGLY. I made such a similar poncho before Martha=B4s story and hated every=20 single minute working on it. It was so booooring... It=B4s a little bit as the story of Samantha... something... infamous=20 shawl. Everyone wanted one, even if it looked awful and cheap. Anyway, since Martha is one of the lucky people looking good even is a=20 sack with a hole for the head and two for the arms (good for her!), the=20 ugly poncho got a stylish model and hence the success. I think it was a very accurate marketing stategy on her part. Also the=20 color, grey (usch!) was very appropriate for the situation and taking=20 people on her side. As sonn as I saw the scene on CNN I tought: ok,=20 let=B4s the poncho story begin LOL Anyway, since many people enjoys making it, it=B4s a "good thing", Martha= =20 or not :-)

Bye,

Anna Maria

Ugly or not, Bernat had 57,000 downloads of the free pattern in 3 days!

Roger.

Hazel wrote:

I don't like it, either, Hazel.

Katherine

Beauty is in the eyeof the beholder....:=))

Els

Oh it isn't that bad!

When I first saw it on TV, it looked bluer and it did go well with her skinny jeans in that light. It draped well when you saw a full body shot in motion. After that, the still shots were a little disappointing.

I know better than to think it would look good on me, though. Even when I was at my skinniest in college, I was still too short to look good in most ponchos. Now I'd look like an old sofa with a blanket thrown over it to hide the stains!

Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist

Okay, I didn't see it on her on tv and I guess it's the yarn color more than anything. In the photo's I saw it was the color of an old grease rag. As for the downloads of the pattern... I did that, too, just out of curiosity but without any intention of making it. Mostly I wanted a look at the edging. I use crocheted edgings on a lot of my woven things and am always on the lookout for new patterns. Well, I just wondered if so many people really did find it attractive or of it was just the celebrity thing. Hazel

I usually get my news from NPR radio every morning, so I didn't see Martha's "coming out". But I just found my old Newsweek in the recycling pile, and I am wondering about that poncho. There is a photo of her and her daughter and others. Looks like she is leaving the prison, possibly. No make-up, hair not set (nor even brushed). She has on a dark olive pantsuit, and then it looks like a shawl or a wide scarf draped over her shoulders. It is grey with horizontal stripes on it of the same color, i.e. two different stitches. Is that the poncho everyone is talking about? It is definitely not a poncho (front is open) in that photo. Just curious. Kira

Kira,

My local news website just happened to have this on the front page this morning. There is a picture in the article (which happens to be about how people always want to buy what the stars are wearing):

Never mind kiddo, you are oh so comfortable to sit in....LOL, like Otto tells me, I am like an old shoe, he just loves....LOL Who needs ponchos

Els

LOL I can identify.

Katherine

No, that's not the poncho. The one we're talking about is not striped and not open at the front. I think you can still find pictures doing web searches. This one she wore while striding across the tarmac and getting on the plane. It looked a whole lot better to me in the motion shot with a black background than it did in the still shots up against the white plane. There, I agree with the person who said it looked the color of a dirty, gray rag. Background definitely makes a big difference in color perception!

Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist

But I just found my old Newsweek in the

Well, by a fluke, as I read the latest Newsweek, there is a tiny photo of her in THE poncho (pg. 55). I kind of like it, after all. It isn't awkwardly short like most seem to be. Here is what the caption says: "Download: Lion Brand Yarn's free pattern for the poncho Martha wore when leaving Camp Cupcake (lionbrandyarn.com). Now you too can look like you just got out of prison." ha ha ha Kira

"Kira Dirlik"> Well, by a fluke, as I read the latest Newsweek, there is a tiny photo

I've crocheted two of the ponchos, one in Homespun, and one in a Red Heart Symphony acrylic mohair, using the size hook suggested and had to add 3 rows to the Homespun, then decided on 6 additional rows with Symphony to make it long enough to come to my wrists (I'm 5'7"). Martha must be pretty short or the pattern is written for a shorter person. For the Lion Brand crocheted version, it is necessary to add on in groups of 3 after the original 20 rows to have the correct number of stitches to complete the scalloped edge.

Posey