Once upon a time, (September) I started on the oh-so-popular Clapotis. I'm not sure what attracted me to it, except that maybe everyone was knitting it. You couldn't go two steps on the kniternet without hearing about the clapotis. So I decided to start one.
I waited and waited for the right yarn to find me, and I ended up with some clearance yarn from Knit Picks called Gossamer in a color called Trail. The trail is apparently orange, green, and yellow. These are my colors, and the yarn feels great. It's 100% merino and very soft, and laceweight.
However, it is not the right yarn for this pattern. The colors pool in an ugly way and I'm not proud of the project. It looks icky. It was my car knitting... I was working on it at red lights while taking Teague to school. One day I started taking 395 and wasn't sitting at red lights anymore. Not only that, but I decided that with my fatigue problem, that knitting while driving was probably not a very good idea, and I started focusing on the road and leaving the clapotis behind.
So it sits.
Also, the colors pooled in such a way that the clapotis looks like it has a face. I keep working on it though because I'm hoping that when I unravel all the dropped stitches that the pattern calls for that the face will stop looking at me and laughing.
You can see the face in the picture above. Creepy.
Updated 5-4-2009
I RIPPED IT OUT.
And I feel soooooooooo much better now!!
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1 comments:
SO funny. I have never made the Clap. I do think they are lovely though. SOmetimes that pooling can really chunk up an ugly way.
You know there is a Rav group about good and bad pooling. Im sure you do.
I love your blog
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