Clapotis

Hi Norma,

I'll have to go there and check and see what you are making, you made me curious.

Hugs,

Nora

Yeah it's fun, isn't it. Takes a couple tries to get the hang of it, but you can easily see how the pattern stitches fall and make your own adjustments as to width. I started mine and realized 3/4 of the way through the yarn, it was going to be *very* long, so I stopped that one and went to work on one for my DIL only a little wider. She's 5'3 and it still came out over 6 feet long, so I'm doing it over a wider yet. The other almost DIL is only 5 feet, so her's is going to be the same too if this comes out alright. I could just stop at an appropriate length, but I want to use up the whole skein. ;)

What yarn/color are you doing yours in?

sue

Hi Sue, Well! I'm starting to be a little afraid, with what you've written! LOL I am using some yarn that I already had - Sayelle from Zellers. It's variegated runs from rose to purple to sort of a green to blue to back to purple to rose. It's quite pretty. I didn't make it as wide because I don't have quite as much yarn, so I have no idea how long it will end up. The width works out to 6 - dropped on the diagonal - rows. I'm amazed that I've even figured it out. LOL Now I just have to figure out when to start decreasing!

As soon as it's long enough...? lol What you could do, is go to the end of the skein and knit the increase rows till you get the same number of stitches you began the straight rows with. Knit until you get to about that point, or about a yard or so before.

sue

Well, I'm not really sure that I am following you here, but I'm at the end of the 6th repeat for the straight rows. Definitely not long enough yet. I've started the third skein of yarn and will knit until I reach the end of that one. Then I guess I'll have to start decreasing on the last skein. If it isn't long enough, oh well, at least I figured out how to do it, (shrug)

Heee. Yep. I don't know how many repeats I'm on because I'm making it as a scarf and just started the straight rows when I thought it was wide enough and I'm going until I think I have enough for the decreases. I've heard the the decrease section takes slightly more yarn than whatever you use for the increase rows. Many people do it by the skein, some by weight. They figure out how much they use for the increases, set aside that much for the end, and the rest goes into the middle.

sue

Funny, you'd think you'd use less for the decrease, but then what do I know! I figured it would be about the same amount. 'Course I don't know how much I used for the increase either! LoL

Norma i went to some of those sites i still have no clue what a claptoid is , the pics i saw were unclear , i didn`t see any instruction or clear info ,,,,, so could you or somebody else describe this THING to me ??? please ???????????????? mirjam

Mirjam, hope this helps:

I have a question for you! I love the scarf/shawl that you're making, but what the heck does tbl and kfb stand for? I didn't see any description for the abbreviations on the site, and I don't remember ever seeing those two before in any patterns I've ever used.

Gemini

Gem there are abbrevs somewhere on the site. I had to find them to figure it out. tbl = through back of loop, tfb= through front and back of loop. :-)

On the ClapotisKnitalong2005 list at yahoo groups, I think they said you use a little more, but I might have remembered wrong. Just about at the end of the 2nd try at the 2nd one, and I think it's a keeper. Yay!

sue

They should be on the pattern page, but ktbl means knit through back loop, making a twist in those stitches; kfb/pfb are knit/purl the front and back of the stitch, making an increase.

sue

It seems to be a shawl made with a simple pattern of deliberately dropped stitches, so every so often there is a stripe of open spaces. I think I've seen instructions for that kind of thing in some of my 19th century knitting books, but it's currently fashionable under the name "Clapotis".

=Tamar

Aha Tamar , Thank you ,,, deliberate dropped stiches ,,, Tfu tfu tfu , haven`t mastered that as yet ,,,but there was a shawl 2 or 3 winters ago in one of the Knitting mags , that had a pattern of knit 4, loop on needle 3 times ,,,,,, k4 ,, that was very neat ,,, i myself like the pattern of k5, k1with 1loop, k1 with 2loops , k1 with 3loops , k1 with 2loops , k11loop,,,,,, next row knit all opening the loops so you get different sized stiches, , 3row k1 1loop, k1 2loops, k1, 3 loops, k1 2loops, k1 1loop, k5 etc,,, mirjam

I wonder if the designer was influenced by that. She lives in France and the word is French for `little waves (or ripples). After the stitches are dropped, the piece does look like ripples.

sue

Sue, I assumed that Clapotis was French for scarf. LOL Little Waves makes much more sense!