What to do with all those vintage afghans!

I actually had some time this weekend to work on some things I've had sitting around waiting to be worked on. This is one of them.

I purchased this red, white and blue afghan at Salvation Army in Cambridge, MD months ago. (It is currently closed because of a fire. Thank goodness noone was hurt.) They've always have tons of vintage afghans and, I kept saying, some day, I'm going to do something with one. They always reminded me of the 70's and that's why I got the idea of the poncho.


This one was easy because of the grannie square style. I removed one of the middle squares and zigzg stitched around the hole to keep the yarn from ravelling. Then I hadn't quite figured out how I was going to fix the neck hole. Thanks to my mother for the great suggestion to crochet around the hole, I added a few single crochet rounds, shrinking it a bit every row and changed up the color once. I was able to finish it in a couple of hours.

This thing just oozes 70's flamboyant patriot! Haha!

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Location:New jersey