{"id":1008,"date":"2006-03-07T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2006\/03\/07\/the-legendary-clapotis\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T03:22:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T11:22:32","slug":"the-legendary-clapotis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2006\/03\/07\/the-legendary-clapotis\/","title":{"rendered":"The legendary Clapotis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I started knitting, almost a year ago, I started reading a lot of knitting blogs and forums. Because I’m obsessive that way. And I kept seeing all of these references to something called “Clapotis”. Clapotis this, Clapotis that — it sounded like some kind of disease. And not a very nice one, either.<\/p>\n

But as I eventually realized, it’s actually a knitting pattern<\/a>, for a scarf\/shawl hybrid. “Ho hum,” I thought, and went on with life.<\/p>\n

But then, I started spending a lot of time browsing Flickr. And I saw Clapotis<\/a> after Clapotis<\/a>, and they were all so darned gorgeous that I started to want to knit one.<\/p>\n

\"Clapotis<\/a><\/p>\n

One day I had an extra ball of yarn sitting around, and I thought “hmm, let’s just play around with it a bit to see what a Clapotis would look like with this yarn.” I started knitting, and then I was hooked. This was a mini-Clapotis<\/a>, a little scarf that I finished quickly, but it just made me want to knit the full-size Clapotis more.<\/p>\n

I tried it in one yarn, and I didn’t like the way that was going, so eventually I resorted to the yarn the pattern calls for: Lorna’s Laces Lion & Lamb in the gorgeous (and… very pink) Bittersweet colorway. 19 days later… a Clapotis! You can see in the picture here that it’s a pretty big scarf. It’s almost as long as I am tall, and it is very wide. It makes a nice warm shawl, but also a nice scarf, all wavy-like.<\/p>\n

\"Clapotis<\/a><\/p>\n

So now the Clapotis is done and I am free, free from the Clapotis Compulsion (only a year after the rest of the net knitters, but hey, I only started knitting less than a year ago). No more wraps and scarves since summer is coming! But then I see this<\/a>… and this<\/a>… uh, I might be doomed again. <\/p>\n

(Technical info for the knitters in the crowd: almost 3 full skeins of Lion & Lamb, knitted flat on US9 circular needles from the Boye Needlemaster set, pattern altered by leaving out one of the straight section repeats but otherwise exactly as written.)<\/p>\n


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