The Clap-otis
Ha! Faked you out! This is a knitting post. Sorry. You may be excused.
"Clapotis" means lapping in French, as in the lapping of the waves on the shore. Weird and kind of repulsive word, actually. The French pronunciation helps: cla-po-TEE.
Anyway, it's a wildly popular shawl pattern among knitters. Ravelry.com (the Facebook for knitters) counts 6400 versions of it. Really.
Here's my clap in progress, using Noro Silk Garden 264:
Yes, those are dropped stitches on the right. You drop them as you go, kind of.
It's an easy pattern, but very daunting, as there are a million blog posts, forums, discussion threads, and spreadsheets on it. This is the spreadsheet I'm following (with thanks to Soul Knitting):
I'm showing it to impress you. The pattern is actually pretty easy to memorize.
Seriously, don't be intimidated. If I can do it, so can you. Of course, mine isn't done yet ...
Cool pattern, Melissa. Glad that you are having a good vacation.
I took my GS and his best bud (both 4 year olds) to OMSI yesterday. As my DIL likes the knit dish clothes took that as my project (nice and mindless). I got one almost complete while following the boys around.
Family came home from the hospital yesterday. The new little guy is SO cute.
See you soon.
Judi
Posted by: Judi | June 28, 2008 at 08:36 AM
Congratulations! Were you exhausted by OMSI? Henry and I did the Boston Science Museum (same idea) and I was wiped out!
Melissa
Posted by: | June 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Glorious colorway and beautiful work in progress. Enjoy the beach! It's another heat wave here and we spent all week in the river soaking up the sun. See you soon.
Posted by: Sarah | June 28, 2008 at 07:21 PM
Beautiful! I love the colors and the pattern. I'd never heard of that pattern before.
Posted by: Amanda | June 29, 2008 at 09:42 AM