Autumn Rainbow Clapotis in the Sunshine

[liralen]

Autumn Rainbow Clapotis in the Sunshine
Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

So this is one picture of the Knitty Clapotis that I finally finished in October. I finally found the pictures and got them off the camera.

The colors that have come out of this are very, very different than the "oh, that's an Autumn yarn" colors that came out of the yarns. It's quite a lot brighter than I'd originally thought it would be, but all the colors definitely came out. *grin*

It's really interesting comparing it to the pictures of the yarns, as it's very different than I'd originally thought it would be. I'm starting to really figure out that looking at yarn in a skein will NOT tell me what it will look like when it's knit up. It's getting more gut level than not, anymore, which means that buying or selling yarn on-line is going to be a bit more nitpicky for me.

Comments

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

Beeee-yooo-teee-fulll!!!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thankyee!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretty!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[archangelbeth]

Iolanthe says that she's seen something a lot like that in Neverwinter Nights (Hordes of the Underdark) just now, only they were pillars.

That's... really long and color-neat.

(Dictionary.com says a Clapotis is a "wash" -- so I blink! Looks more like a... scarf? Sort of?)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Clapotis is the name of a pattern on Knitty.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTclapotis.html (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTclapotis.html)

It's actually a kind of a scarf *and* kind of a shawl. So it's rather long and wide and I'm very glad you liked the colors! Those were hard to get and keep and spin and stuff... *grin*

[archangelbeth]

Cool! (And whew, thank you for the link! I was baffled.)

Preeeeetty.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Here's the Clapotis search (http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Clapotis&m=text) on Flickr, to see what they look like from lots of people...

[archangelbeth]

It's a shawl you can wrap around your neck!!

*covet*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*falls over giggling*

Yes. Very very sussinct.

Mmmm... yeah, there's some models in there that I covet as well. Especially the Noro based ones. *grin*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

AND I like Iolanthe's comment. *grin*

I hadn't thought of it like that, but it's very cool to think of columns like that.

[incandescens]

That is absolutely gorgeous.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's pretty simple to do, too. But it's big enough it seemed like it was going to take forever. *grin*

[rephetibel.livejournal.com]

Wow!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*beam*

[monkat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the inspiration to finally finish my own clapotis. Mine's mellow shades of blue-ish greens and browns, the "Summer Meadow" colorway from Blue Heron Yarns. I got bored/distracted/knitting other things while somewhere in the mid-point.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ooooo...

It's huge, so, yeah, it can be pretty boring after a while. :-) But I liked pulling down the ladders when I got to them, so sometimes that was incentive enough to get to the next one. :-)

But, yay! Inspiration!