Clapotis -- finished!

Here it is, my finished Clapotis. I started this on an airplane to Colorado the Friday before Memorial Day (May 23). I finished on July 16. I love my finished shawl/wrap/whatever! (It’s way bigger than a scarf. In fact, it’s taller than I am.)

I don’t intend to block my Clapotis. I like how it looks right now.

I used Schaefer Yarns Laurel, a mercerized cotton, in the Empress Wu Zhao colorway. Each skein is fairly big, 8 oz. and 400 yards. I used one full skein and about half of another. The yarn was really easy to work with.

Dropping the stitches was the most fun part of knitting this. Imagine dropping stitches on purpose! I’ve dropped them accidentally, most recently on the blue Montego Bay scarf, and since the stitch unraveled several rows down, I had a horrible time getting back on track. But on the Clapotis you do this on purpose! It almost felt naughty.

Dropping stitches was fun, but first I was nervous. What if I’d gotten off and dropped the wrong stitch? I’d never recover. Luckily this never happened. After the first few, it became fairly obvious if I was dropping in the right place.

After I finished a repeat, I’d take a few moments to rest my fingers and unravel the dropped stitch all the way down. It was a reward for finishing another repeat. And each time I did it, my project looked more and more like a Clapotis.

I must say, this is a very popular project on Ravelry. Soon after I began mine, I found 6080 Clapoti on the projects page. Now I see there are 6725. That means 645 have been made since I first looked.

I love this thing! I intend to wear it every day, indoors and out, and eat a croissant!