Thank you all for the lovely comments on Aeolian. She’s still draped over the back of the lounge, where I can admire her whenever I glance over.
In the afterglow, I decided on a reasonably easy project. I delved through the stash, trawled through Ravelry and went through a billion magazines, and finally decided on a Clapotis.
I did make a Clapotis once, a few years back, but I don’t wear it very often. It’s quite heavy, and I dyed the yarn myself. In really, really bright colours. So at the Bendigo Wool Show last year, I bought some 4ply (fingering weight) Polwarth from Waratah Fibres, intending it for a Clapotis right from the minute I saw it.
So I wound my yarn and off I went. I even went to the trouble of alternating skeins because of the handdyed yarn. And I’m pretty happy with the way it’s looking.
But.
There’s always a but, isn’t there?
It’s a little further along now. I’ve used 58g of the yarn. I only have 150g. The short side is around 33cm (13″) and the long side is 56cm (22″). I think that if I keep going, I’m going to have a stumpy Clapotis. So now I can’t decide what to do. Admit it’s going to be too short and give it up? Or hope for the best and keep going?
It’s going to be too short, isn’t it?
And a great deal of my knitting time is currently being sucked away, and will continue to do so for the next six months.
Sewing for the annual dance concert has begun. Sixty one costumes in six months.
I’m an idiot.
rip it back to something more manageable, like 5 ridges across, and make a skinny clappy. The colours look great.
Chunky Clapotis = “Shoulder Wrap” – connect with Fancy Pin of some sort over left shoulder and allow to dangle stylishly. (Yes, it’s going to be short, but the yarn is lovely…!)
I discovered the rule of 2/5ths via Rav.
1/5 increase, 3/5 body & 1/5 decreasing.
No problems & you won’t run out of yarn 🙂
61 costumes gulp!
I volunteered my mother to sew a heap of costumes when I was very (very) little in dance class.
I never made that mistake again!
I really hope you’re getting paid enough.
shelley has already given you the suggestion i would have made which is to make a skinny clapotis. a skinny clapotis will be much more useful to you than a mini clapotis. (omg that is so terrible i am posting it anyway)
gah look at those costumes! agree, frog it and go the skinnier one, more practical. it looks better longer i reckon….
Love the colors of your Clapotis but I can’t help as I have not knitted it before. I can’t believe that you are sewing 61 costumes, I will never, ever be able do that!
you can always wear a skinny / mini clapotis as a scarf 🙂
and now you have to sew 61 costumes in 6 months?? wow!!! you’ve got super powers!!! ^_^
Oh, all that sewing, I couldn’t do it!!
Hmmm, clappy…I think narrower too, using the rule of fifths. Or, see if you can get some more yarn (maybe via Rav??) I have some that looks very very very similar, and I’m sure it is Waratah fibres…
61 costumes – yikes! Good luck!
Maybe when you get to 75 grams you can start decreasing and just have a scarf clapotis? Its beuatiful, though – love the colors.
I still have not made a Clapotis. I think I’m the only one left. Love the colors of yours.
Good luck with the sewing – it’s one costume every three days; does that sound better? Probably not!
lord woman, how do you do it. I hope they are skimpy costumes.