C’est … um … completo!

(My apologies … I was a Spanish major, not French! I actually dropped out of French class after two weeks because I kept answering everything in Spanish and my French had a Spanish accent. Turned out, a few years later, that even my Russian has a Spanish accent, so … anyway … right. Knitting!)

I finished Clapotis tonight but Clive won’t get off of it so I can finish weaving in the ends. I love and adore this pattern, and I love the yarn enough to suffer through the itchy eyes and slight sniffles I get when I wear it. The pattern is simple genius, it really is. Basic stitches with careful planning and a bit of whimsy, that’s what Clapotis is.

I had four (minor) issues/mistakes with Clapotis:

  1. I ran out of yarn. I’d bought the three recommended skeins and then had to order another one, and didn’t get the same dye lot. Eh. The fourth skein is less vibrant than the others, but really — who cares? Not me.
  2. I forgot one yarn over in my set-up stitches. This made a bloody mess out of the end of one of the ladder runs, but I think it’ll be easily fixed with weaving. I’ll let you know when Clive gets up.
  3. I forgot to drop a stitch in one of my ladder runs, so I’m short a ladder run. I don’t know how I managed to do it, but I did. Again: eh.
  4. One of my sections is a stitch short. Again with the “eh!” because (a) it sounds so French and (b) it’s still beautiful, so who cares?!

On to Cozy while the cat snoozes beside me on the $100 cat bed known as “Clapotis” …

January 8, 2005 | Filed Under Clapotis, Knitting 

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One Response to “C’est … um … completo!”

  1. Dell on January 8th, 2005 9:26 pm

    C’est Finis! :)

    And that rocks! I finished the ball of yarn for the scarf… and now I need another one. Grrr…