The finished Clapotis - finally.

Well, I'm back from Lichfield a week later than I originally planned for. I'm not going into details of what happened - it all went by in a bit of a blur to be honest and I don't want to tell it all again - once to my Father was enough.

So. This is a photo of the finished Clapotis, a bit worse for flash bleaching - but the draping looks nice. The clapotis has been roughly folded in half before draping over the chair and the excess folded (from the back)over the top of the chair again. The chevron effect of the dropped stitches is not intentional, but the right side sort of merges with the wrong side. Ok, that doesn't make sense, but I'm tired (it's 1am here in the UK).
This is a close-up photo (one of the VERY few I did manage to take of it) of the knit side of the clapotis in the early stages. It's here to give a comparison to the next photo.
This is a sort of close-up of the knit side of the finished clapotis. Though it isn't really possible to see, it did shrink a bit after washing. Yes, the colours did fade a bit as well - but not quite as much as it appears. The photo above was taken without the flash, while this one had flash.


The finished clapotis is 16 1/4" wide and 32" long. It's a bit too skinny, but surprisingly enough, it's perfect on the length. I say "surprisingly" because I had the sinking feeling as I was washing it that it was going to shrink more than it did.
Nice yarns.




Oh, one final note. It's not as slinky as I thought it would be, but it is nicely warm and the colours remind me of the surface of the ocean during a high tide.

Ok, got to go - the bed is calling.

Night.