Weekly pattern

 Oh, this is an old classic, back to the heydays of Ravelry, which is still one of the most popular patterns of (all times) Ravelry. 

The CLAPOTIS.

Why did I thought of it? Because I bumped into a youtube video, rattling on about "cursed" knitting and crochet patterns, she would not knit. And while I agreed with some of her points, like the Ranunculus sweater or amigurumis or knitting with merino and mohair held together, she had two points that made my eyebrows run up way to high. One was about shawls in general, and the other is about Clapotis. She even said she thought it is ugly. 

Hmmm. 

I strongly disagree. Of course, I am much older than the youtuber, and I was around when the Clapotis first came out, and I did knit my share (at least three of them, but I think it more like four or five, though they are not documented on Ravelry. Back then, it was like a "Knitter's badge. If you had/wore one, it meants you are a knitter, or you know one well enough to him/her knit you one.

So why do I like it? 

It has an interesting construction, the columns of stockinett stitches and dropped stitches running diagonally, and, if one knits them from a yarn that is either self striping, or dyed in a way that forms and kind of strip-ish pattern, then the "stripes" running the other diagonal line.

It is kind of easy, but still need skills, increase, decrease, twisted stitches, dropped stitches.

And just as i mentioned above, it lends itself perfectly to use self-striping yarns, handdyed yarns, unicolored yarns, handspun yarns, my favorite one (until now) is the one I made for a shawl exchange, and dyeing the wool, spinning the yarn and then knitting from my own handspun, (you can see the details of it here.)

Now, just as I was writing this one, an idea popped into my mind, thinking that it would also lend itself to knitting it up from leftover sockyarn bits, as theese sockyarns tend to have some kind of stripy effect by themself, and putting them besides each other, even more, and by now, I am starting to get really bored knitting those neckwarmers from these leftovers bits I can't seem to leave at any second hand shop.

The original Knitty.com pattern is HERE.

The updated 2024 version on Knitty.com is HERE.

The ravelry page for the original Clapotis is HERE.