No apologies this time.

I finished the clapotis last night. This one was knit of Louisa Harding "Impression," which is a "polyamide" (Polyester, I think) and mohair blend. It's sort of a ribbon yarn with a little strand of mohair wrapped around it.

It makes for a shawl that is drapey without being quite as heavy as a wool one is.



I like the colors. It's hard to photograph; there is a deep pink and a purple and a green in there, and they're shiny, but it's more a "natural" sort of shiny than a "glitzy" sort of shiny. Kind of like the scales on a butterfly's wing as compared to lurex or lamé.

Here's a photo of it on. It's not the bestest photo of me ever, but the camera ran out of juice after taking this one. (I claim not to be vain but you will note that I put lipstick back on before the photo, because I felt pale. And I also deleted previous photos that were less flattering than this one.)



Yeah, my house is a little cluttered right now. It happens during summer school when in the evenings I have off, I'd rather knit than clean. (A soon-to-be-started project is in those two balls of yarn on the table. It's something that amuses me - the idea of it, I mean - so I probably won't talk about it until it's done, because it's something that the effect of it is really better after it's complete).

Finishing something energizes me. I think it breaks the feeling of tedium or that "every day is like the one previous" that I sometimes get. Now I feel like I want to work on finishing AT LEAST Thermal or the Honeycomb vest before summer ends.

I started the shawl back in August as a response to a worrying situation (that turned out OK). Ironically, it was another worrying-health-situation-that-ultimately-turned-out-OK when I knit the bulk of the first Clapotis I made.

I hope this third one is the last Clapotis, at least in the sense of being started during a worrisome time.