Ok, lets try this again . . .

I'm just a posting maniac, aren't I?

Ok, so I've been busy-ish. I've had to re-start a crocheted bracelet as I discovered that as I went to sew it closed, the crocheting was off, meaning that it was never going to be finished properly. So It's sitting in front of me, with the main body frogged and wrapped around a suitable container (I used a VERY clean prescription container to wrap it around) and the re-started bit is waiting patiently next to it.
I've only crocheted about 1/2 an inch so far, but it's a start. At least this one seems to be starting correctly.
The other thing was that I have completely finished the blue scarf.
There it is, all clean and fluffy. I didn't bother blocking it as it's 100% polyester.
Anyway. I hope she likes it and it gets as much use as the matching hat I sent her last year(I did mean to send the scarf much sooner . . . but. . .

The other thing is that I've started a clapotis. Darn you, knitty.com and all those other happy people on the forums dedicated to making this apparently wonderful item.
Ok, I liked the look of it as well. *sigh*.
So, I'm not using the same yarn asked for in the pattern, but instead, I'm using this:



5 cones (4 - 200g, one unknown weight) of single ply silk/cotton & silk/wool mixes (min. 50% silk) via Texere Yarn Mill. (4 cones of Garden Flowers, 1 cone of Enigma). They cost me a grand total of £14. I got what I could afford. I bought a couple more cones than this and I made a swatch - like you do.

Working with the yarn is "sticky" and slightly smelly, but this is due to the silk in both types being oil-spun. Luckily for me, it washes out easily, as when the swatch was washed, it turned out lovely. The feel is very soft and with a slight fuzz. But it shrunk a little in length - this isn't a disadvantage. It causes the knitting to tighten up just right. The stickiness makes the knitting, post-washing, quite loose.

But the shrinkage (which isn't much) caused me to re-think the pattern slightly, adding a repeat in both the length and width.



So, I started on the clapotis itsself and I'm plugging along slowly (no photos of that as yet) and it's looking good. I'll update with photographs now and then.

Until the next post.