Well, I discovered that the Rosedale cardigan was turning out to be far bigger than I'd expected, so I was faced with a decision. I debated for a day or so, reluctant as usual to rip out weeks of work, especially something that really was pretty, but in the end, out it came yesterday. I had at that point four balls of wool going, for the intarsia blocks up near the shoulders, so it was quite annoying to pull out a few stitches, stop and untwist, wind, pull, untwist, wind, pull, untwist, wind, endlessly, and I got impatient -- which turned out to be quite a mistake, as I ended up with a wodge of strands the size of a volleyball. It took me most of the morning and afternoon to sort it all out, and I had the dubious satisfaction of telling myself "I told you so."
But at last it was done, everything wound up neatly, and by this morning I had this to show --
Sure enough, the beginnings of another Clapotis. I so loved this pattern, made up in less than a week this past March, from Silk Garden #88, and I so love wearing it, that as I ripped out the Rosedale, I couldn't keep the Clapotis out of my mind. Since the Silk Garden makes the finished piece much less scrunchable that the Lorna's Lace (I'm guessing from the photograph), I usually wear it more as a shawl, which made me wonder how it would work sewn together at one end, in the way of the Union Square Shawl from "Weekend Knitting". So, in order to be a little different this time, I'll try it. I may have to square the end off a bit, instead of the parallelogram ....
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