I started the Clapotis today out of the Love Yarn from Vicky Howell on US 7 (4.5mm) needles. I had originally purchased this yarn in the Harold & maude colorway to make something for e (well she doesn't necessarily like yarn stuff, so it's ok). Instead i'm turning it into a present for my mom... if it turns out ok. If it's not the sorta color or the sorta thing that she likes, maybe i can give it to someone else. i also purchased the yarn because i wanted to give vicky Howell's yarn a try... she has such fun colorway names that i just want to buy them all, just so that i can say i have such and such. The Love yarn is a Bamboo & silk yarn... with the Addi circ needles, they are smooth & almost to the point of fallin off the needle.
As one can clearly see in the picture... I'm using yarn circles for stitch markers...i had left my whole set of stitch markers in China... so this is what i could come up with at this point. i don't like the rubberband method. Although i read on the clapalong that people were doing the purl method... if I only knew which stitch they were talking about, perhaps I can switch to that one in a later increase... or if i was more ambitious I'd try to figure it out.
I was going to buy more needles at the craft store, but... i decided i only want to purchase Addi needles from now on... they are much smoother, plus circs can double as straights!!
So far there is one problem... during the last repeats I miss counted and ended up with less rows in the first and last section of the rows... so instead of knit 3, i'm having to knit 2. It's not a big deal though... just something i have to deal with.. well at least i'm hoping it's not a big deal...
is it just me, or the clap looks like a thong.
hehe.
just me then huh?
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