This weekend actually turned out to be pretty productive for me. I managed to get all the laundry done, the kids’ rooms cleaned, the downstairs straightened (cleaned would be too strong a word!), half the back yard weeded, the grocery shopping done, and a few other things…
Including finishing Luke’s third pair of socks this year (in green!) and casting on for my own pseudo-Olympic project: Clapotis. See, it’s not really an Olympic thing—it’s a gift for one of the contract editors I work with whose contract runs out at the end of this month. There’s some talk that the (overall) contract might be renewed, but she’s decided to move on and explore some other opportunities. She’s a bohemian spirit, and I think that the comfort and casualness of Clapotis will appeal to her.
I’m knitting it in some of my MIL’s yarn (from her sheep, goats, and bunnies). I don’t remember which mill spun the yarn, but they did a nice job. It’s roughly sock-yarn weight. I hesitate to make socks with it, though—I’ve done a few swatches using 2’s and 1’s, and there was still a fair amount of shrinkage/felting even though the fabric was pretty tight. I’d hate to think of knitting a whole pair of socks for someone who wouldn’t really be able to wash them easily.
Clapotis has been surprising easy to knit—although I really have to keep reminding myself to remember the increases on the end of each row (obviously I’m still in the increase rows portion of the pattern). This yarn is a little grabbier than what most people have used, but I knit a swatch and dropped some stitches and the laddering worked just fine with very little effort.
I’m going to try to fight with the digital camera this evening so I can finally post some fiber-related photos.
