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Introducing…The Clapotis Cap

This is the hat I finished the other night. The one I’ve been so excited to show you. So even though this picture is below my usual standards and doesn’t quite show how totally cute it is, I’m showing you anyway.

While I was working on my first Clapotis, I kept thinking about how I might make a matching hat. I wanted to keep the drop stitches and I wanted to have a swirl. I’d play with ideas for variations in my head while commuting, but nothing really took. Until last weekend.

When I wasn’t playing with dye, I was knitting what was the prototype for this cap. That version was far too small (despite how much my friends loved it). But I worked out most of the ideas on it, so it was easy to adapt and expand for the one you see now. Here’s another view:

I’m guessing that your first thought is “Can I have the pattern?!” (or maybe “Is it easy to make?”). Yes, it’s easy to make, and yes, I’ll be posting the pattern. You’ll have to give me a little time, because right now it’s nothing more than scribbles in my notebook that you couldn’t understand even if I scanned it. I want to type it up and I want to make a second cap from my typed pattern to work out the bugs. And I want to take some process photos along the way. But then I’ll post it here.

I’ll also have a photographer friend take some “fashion shots” this weekend so you can see it in all it’s glory. So sit tight and keep your eyes peeled!

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Knitting in the Dark

Okay, so not dark for me, but a continuation of the no-photo problem. I find that if I know I can’t show you anything, I’m more inclined to do things that don’t photograph well anyway.

Last night I seamed one sleeve of Marcel’ s Sweater. Nothing too exciting about watching a flat thing become a tube. I’m really eager to finish it now, because in sewing it, I realized how much I love the fabric. And even though I slipped it on over the shirt I was already wearing, I love the way the sleeve clings to my arm.

So tonight, even though I have a camera in my possession for photo-taking, I will seam the other sleeve. I probably would have been able to do both last night, but the West Wing was so good that I spent a lot of the episode actually watching and not sewing! And hopefully this weekend I’ll find a nice chunk of time to sit down and set in the sleeves.

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Blogging Blind

I didn’t realize just how annoying not having my camera would be. It’s at least an hour round-trip to my friend’s house and I’m going to see her on Sunday, so I’m not inclined to make the trip just for the camera. And even if I could manage to get my camera phone all set up to transfer the pictures, the quality is nowhere near the standards I expect. But boy do I want take pictures to show you things!

Not the least of which is a hat that I designed and finished last night! One that my husband even said was cute! I’m going to see if a co-worker will bring in his camera for me to borrow tomorrow. Because I’m just bursting with excitement!!!

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