Get it? Another Clap pun. You won't have to put up with many more because this time the Clap is done:
The particulars:
Pattern: Clapotis, abbreviated to make a scarf:
- the setup section
- two full repeats of section two, plus the required partial amount of the final increase row.
- 17 repeats of section three – this sounds longer than the original shawl, but it's not, as you are losing length by not doing the full eight repeats of the increase and decrease sections.
- two repeats plus the final ten rows of the decrease section #4
- section five
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden, colourway #279, 140 gms (almost three skeins). There was at least one knot per skein, but in the 13 skeins I used for my Lady Eleanor and this project, only a few occasions where the yarn disintegrated to fluffy nothingness.
I have a knitting wish – to go to the Noro factory to watch their manufacturing process so I may better understand the product's limitations. Someone told be their quality control allows for up to four knots per skein. I don't so much have a problem with the knots, it's the abrupt colour changes at the joining points. Sometimes the skein even reverses colour order. Now that drives me crazy.
It doesn't stop me from using the stuff, I'm a glutton for Silk Garden punishment having knit 42 skeins of it in one form or another. That's just over three miles of Silk Garden. I would have expected it to be more. It sounds better in Canadian – just over five kilometers. And there are another 19 skeins stashed in my future 🙂
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