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December 30, 2004
ReKAL and Scarf love
I finished the two Christmas scarves I was knitting and they turned out great. I have been fascinated with knitting triangles ever since knitting Clapotis and sampling the multidirectional scarf. It is fun to do something out of the norm.
Wendy gave me some gorgeous jewel toned yarn that sort of resembles the recycled silk yarn. It is cotton fiber woven in and out of tape yarn. Very pretty. I knew right away that I wanted to use it to make a Clapotis because Wendy gave it to me while I was fondling her Clapotis. People keep discussing and asking about yarn subsititutions for this pattern (and others) on Knitty. I am too much of a rebel to understand why there is even a question. I have only used the recommended yarn ONCE in a project (the first booga I made). It is a game with me to dig through my stash and ask each yarn what it wants to be when it grows up. I am all for Affirmative Action with minority yarns. You can be whatever you want to be, baby.
Anyway, the Clapotis pattern was hands down the funnest (I can use that nonword on MY blog) pattern I have knit. There is something gleefully bad about deliberately dropping stitches. Someone else mentioned that they thought it was anticlimatic - I must be pretty juvenile because I found myself knitting a bit faster when that particular repeat came around, hahahahahaha. The pattern says to drop the stitch a couple of rows and then later on it mentions to have fun dropping them the rest of the way when you are finished with the scarf. Ummmm, NO. I will be dropping those as they happen. I am not one for suspense.
I have a dozen projects going on right now. I can't even keep up with my project bar doohickeys over there. Trust me, they are all wrong. I am doing two more scarves at the moment. One is of mystery cotton-like yarn from the market for my oldest son in fat ribbing. It is super, super soft. The other scarf is my ReKAL project that Wendy has going on. I found this horrible Elmo-ish red fun fur tank (Why?!) and knew immediately standing at the table in the market that it was going to the frog pond. I unraveled it easily - one of the only Italian sweaters I have found that was badly constructed. The fun fur turned out to be (hide your eyes Wendy) fingering weight. Guess how much it sucks to pick up a dropped stitch in fingering weight fun fur. Yah, that much. I nearly frogged the whole thing out of frustration but managed to catch it (with all the house lights on and the boys banished to their rooms so I could concentrate in silence). It knits up amazingly fast given its weight. And it is deliciously soft. I am trying to hurry and get it done in time for my trip to Austria in two weeks.
As a complete non sequitor, I forgot to show off my sister's booga that I made back in October or something.
Posted by DebC at December 30, 2004 06:26 PM
Comments
ooooooh it's bellissima! Very fine use of very fab fibers! Agreed, dropping on purpose is a delight!
Posted by: wendy at December 30, 2004 10:41 PM
Are you sure you can SAY "fondling Clapotis" in polite company? LOL.
Posted by: Dana at December 31, 2004 05:54 PM
Love the texture on your Clapotis! And thanks for your comments on my blog regarding the yarn-eating-ness of this pattern. I figured I'd need to cut back on the number of repeats in sections 2 and 3 anyway, since I only have 575 yards to work with.
Posted by: Kathy at December 31, 2004 09:57 PM
your clapotis is lovely! i love the color and yep, dropping sts is liberating.
Posted by: amanda at January 1, 2005 09:39 PM
Beautiful scarves! That clapotis might be another one to add to my knitting want to do list.
General Ginger
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Posted by: General Ginger at January 4, 2005 09:38 PM