My First Clapotis Progress Report

I cast on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 in the wee hours of the morning instead of going to bed. We’re talking dawn’s approach here, people. Who starts a new knitting project at four or five in the morning when they haven’t been to bed yet?

Someone who hasn’t knit a stitch in months, that’s who. Someone who heard the faint slide and click of Sharon’s needles on the She-Knits podcast, that’s who. It made me as twitchy as a cat with catnip!

On Ravelry I found Catherine’s Flower Garden Clapotis was made with 1 1/2 skeins of Knit Picks Shimmer yarn. She tells the needle size she used and how she adapted the pattern. So now I had a direction.

I tried to be good. I tried to put in a good day’s work and cast on afterwards. Well, four-five a.m. is ‘afterwards,’ isn’t it? Truth is, I just couldn’t stand to end the day without knitting. Not one more day wasted. Not one more day of dismissing and dishonoring my own soul-deep need.

Enough of that. Here’s a close-up shot of the first two dropped stitch columns.

This colorway is called Deep Woods, but I keep thinking it’s Autumn. Looking at the hanks, I kept thinking it was the color of oak leaves in the fall. But while I’m knitting it up, it’s making me think of chocolate and caramel and I’m loving it.

I took these pictures yesterday before knitting, so now of course it’s further along. I’ve done four dropped stitch columns. The first skein is mostly used up, so I’ll have to pay attention to what section repeat it ends on and consider that the half-way point. It’s getting late and I’m going to knit at least one more repeat before I pack it in.

If I make it to bed before dawn, I’ll be doing well. I’ll regain my balance here one of these days, and get my sleep as well as knit. Right?