I recently finished a project using yarn I was given when I left Calgary. It has not been sitting in my stash all this time as it has already been two other projects. Obviously, I had been trying to force it into something that wasn’t going to work, but I really wanted to use the yarn. To be fair, I really liked the first project, I just never wore it.
Here is my blog post from January 2014 showing the first finished item which was eventually frogged in November 2019, recast on in May 2021 and frogged again in December 2021. This isn’t the oldest yarn in my stash but close and as I want to use or remove my oldest yarn I have been thinking about patterns. Despite my original assertions that this yarn should not be a shawl, I had come to the conclusion that a Clapotis would be a good idea. It’s a simple pattern that would highlight the yarn. And then I saw this pattern on a video podcast and knew it was the one. So much so that I started it almost straight away.
After a few rows in, the pattern was easy to memorise and work on. So it became my take along project. I didn’t feel that I worked very much at any one time but it was finished in less than three weeks. And I am very happy with the result.
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