The Same But Free

Stalker type "friends" message/email you to comment on a pattern you have liked or put in your queue.  Chances are 50/50 that there will also be some kind of question that boils down to 'WTF are you thinking?!', too.

Real friends email you a link to a pattern that is the same to a pattern you liked but is free.  If you're me, you don't get around to knitting the free pattern until the designer has fixed the tiny issue that the pattern had. 

Clapo-Ktus

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No, I cannot pronounce the name of the pattern.  I don't even try.  It's one of the perks of being an internet knitter.  I know what shit is but I never know how to say anything.  There are worse things to be...

The yarn was a gift from our Val.  It arrived about a year ago when we were plotting against our LynnieLee, who was large with baby.  Last weekend, Baby Girl turned one.  I'm still in deep denial over that and will be for a while.  Anyway, the yarn is from IndigoDragonfly, who is new to me.  It's a superwash merino laceweight in a lovely slightly variegated blue called Keep On Swimming. 

Just a little perfect...

As the name implies, it's a ribbed scarf that you drop the purls on once you're done with the knitting.  It was perfect mindless knitting for me last month while I pondered what July of last year was like.  I'll give you a hint...  My mother was dying and we were in the ER a lot.

I did the increases until I decided it was wide enough.  I weighed the yarn to see how much I had used and knit ribbing without increasing for a while.  I wanted something that was more like a scarf than a shawl.  A few days after I had lost the will to live and the scarf was long enough, I worked decreases and very happily cast off.

Soaking made the superwash merino grow a bit, relax and become softer than I had hoped.  The finished scarf is lovely, works as a scarf and as a shawl if needed.  Looks great with a maxi dress, btw.  It was the perfect thing to help chase away some ghosts and bring me back into the here and now.

Nailed to a fence photo for my darling CarrieK, who loves a shawl nailed to a fence.  Happy Birthday a day early!  xoxox

Comments

[Melissa]

Beautiful Project. Do love IndigoDragonfly. Great yarn names to go with pretty colors. I've got Clapo-Ktus in my queue. I'm so glad I'm not the only one wondering how to pronounce it.

[gayle]

Very pretty! And hooray for soothe-the-spirit knitting!

[Marilyn]

Very pretty! Love the color and so glad it chased some demons away. The name makes me think of octopus...or of a disease....just the way my brain works I guess. o.0
xoxo

[claudia]

I love that you nailed it to a fence.

[Cheryl S.]

Yay! It's beautiful, and I'm glad you had a win! Now I want to make another one of those. A little larger than my first one.

[kmkat]

Lovely!

[Kelly]

How funny. I saw a pattern on another knit blog today and was thinking, that scarf and yarn would look better as a Clapotis! Looks delightfully smooshy, and I love blue so naturally I love the color, too.

[Ruth]

Gorgeous.

[Stacey]

You did knit it! <3 I have the yarn balled for it, but there is too much "grrrrr" right now and not enough time. Nailing things is always good. Or is that pegging? I get so confused.

[pdxknitterati/Michele]

That's beautiful. Soothing and squishy. And that blue! Indigo Dragonfly rocks. Welcome back to the here and now.

[Datagoddess]

Eeeee, I need to knit that pattern!!

[Sarah]

It's so lovely! I have been thinking of you so much knowing what this time last year was. xoxo

[Carrie#K]

I do love a nicely nailed shawl.