Off The Needles: Clapotis

I want to share with you one of my favorite projects. Sadly, this is also a project where I've really splurged on the yarn. It was so, so worth it though.

I just totally fell in LOVE with this yarn (you might notice a theme here) while perusing Knitorious, a fantastic yarn shop in St. Louis, this summer. I had gone in looking for something to inspire me to knit and ended up spending over an hour just looking at (and touching!) their yarn offerings. I kept finding myself going back to this bright, sparkly yarn. I didn't have any projects in mind so I just browsed and browsed. But I decided I had to have that sparkly yarn. I couldn't leave the store without it.

That yarn was Blue Heron Rayon Metallic in Parrot. That yarn was not cheap.

The colors really turned out lovely.

It was worth the price, as was the excellent help I got from Knitorious. Sandy spoke with me for a long time about what I could knit with this gorgeous yarn, clicking their computer over to Ravelry and letting me surf through projects completed with a skein of Blue Heron Rayon Metallic (550 yards, DK weight, handpainted). After a while, I decided on the Clapotis by Kate Gilbert, using modified instructions shared by Linda (lwachter on Ravelry) in her own Clapotis project. Then Sandy wound my yarn up and sent me on my way to knit this shawl in about ten days.

So pretty!

I did have some yarn leftover, so I probably could have knit just a bit more. I don't usually have as much time to knit, so I really relished the summer break and my ability to knit all day every day for about a week. I ended up with a project that became my favorite wrap. I wear it all the time and get tons of compliments on it.

I didn't block this item and, to be honest, I don't usually wear it stretched open, either. Normally, I just wrap it around my neck like a regular scarf. But I recently also got a something that could work as a shawl pin and decided to wear it open last week. AHHHHH! I couldn't stop looking at it.

This wrap really looks nice scrunched up but it looks amazing when you can actually see all those ladders. It was perhaps a bit grand for teaching but I loved it.

When I'm feeling like splurging again, I'd definitely like to get another colorway of this. What would you knit with this gorgeous yarn?