But Oat Couture and Noni Designs don’t use it. Probably because they’re nervous about people passing around the pdfs instead of buying their own copy.

I digress. ParadiseFibers.net had the patterns and reasonable shipping cost of $2.40 for 3 patterns.

* The Noni cascading fuschias market bag pattern that I bought the yarn for early this summer!

* Oat Couture’s Curlicue Coverlet – the model doesn’t look spectacular but it’s what people have done with multiple colors and variegated ones that have me chomping at the bit to do my own. Will be the first time I KNIT an afghan. Some inspirational FOs:  Solaris, Purlingswine, and FuzzyKaren

* Oat Couture’s Stowaway Bag – I’ve already been making some market bags out of free patterns or my own but I wanted to see how they did theirs with the stowaway bottom.

In the meantime,  I have the “1 skein’s worth of a Clapotis” photo for you that I mentioned before. I’m currently at the end of 4 skeins but not sure how far I am in to the pattern as written. Might end up adding length.

Clapotis - One Skein

Keep feeling like I have to blog about it all.

So tonight, will just talk about what I did today.

First, I worked on my Sunflowers Afghan. There’s 4 colors involved in a motif (the section that is repeated over and over and then sewn together to make the whole afghan). Dk brown for the center (seeds), yellow for the leaves, then a round of green, a round of dk blue, and another round of green. So far I’ve done only up to the blue round as I still need to dig out that skein of blue that I have.

I’m undecided whether to stick with the color scheme as indicated in the book or go all green. Will do one of each and take pictures.

In the meantime, been doing more motifs because with the yarn changes, it’s very easy to just assembly line it. Today I managed to use up the rest of the dk brown skein which shows me I can get 10.5 motifs out of a dk brown skein. Will be useful for figuring how many more to set aside when I figure out how big I want to make it.

Been thinking these might make fun baby blankets too. Keep the motifs the same size but just put fewer together and do it in a softer yarn. Certainly a lot of babies in my life, my cousins have a bunch and other people do too.

Then I decided it was time to see what the love for the clapotis was all about. It’s one of the two KALs this month in Village Hopelessly Overcommitted, and Kimberli helped me out by looking at my stash and recommending Elann’s Pegasus, which is a nice cotton/rayon yarn. Has a nice feel to it. And I had a bag of an intense blue color which should be enough for it plus a skein or two left over for fingerless mitts to match.

Using K’s adapted spreadsheet that is written to purl the stitch to be dropped instead of using a ton of stitch markers. So far so good. Still in section 2, working up the increases.

Good mindless knitting but I still have to pay attention to remember to twist the appropriate stitches.

EDIT:  Finished the first skein and got to 89 stitches which is the end of the 6th repeat. 1.5 left to go in Section 2 and then it’s straight knitting for a while. So just need to make sure I have 1.2 skeins left for the decreasing end.

Liking this so far, fast knit and fast gratification to see something coming out of the needles