Third Time's the Charm

Some of you may remember back in....oh....January (?) I bought 3 precious skeins of purple & green Malabrigo yarn. For the unintiated; sort of like Manos but softer.

I intended it for a Clapotis, which I, being a sheep, decided to make after everyone in the entire galaxy had made it too. I got about half way through and decided I hated it. It was just NOT the right yarn for it and it wasn't turning out as I had hoped.

Rip one.

So I was sitting with my freshly ripped Clapotis at knit group and I still wanted to make something out of it. I was still thinking in the mode of 'big scarf' like the Clapotis. Someone suggested I try a feather and fan pattern, which is supposedly easy. They lie. It is hard. I had made it through about 2/3 of the yarn this time when I discovered, way back in Ball 1, that I was entirely doing it wrong and had jogs in my feathers & my fans. I ripped back to the problem, but I still just wasn't liking the feather and fan thing. Too hard to do; and I still had to have the pattern in front of me the whole time so I couldn't knit it unless I could focus on just that. And even still I kept forgetting what row I was on. Sigh.

It didn't help that everyone kept telling me how EASY it was to do feather & fan. I guess it is just one of those things, like keeping plants alive or figuring out which way is north, that other people can do without much difficulty but I can't.

Everyone told me not to rip it out, and to give it a rest for a while. So it sat in a basket on top of my TV for several months.

Rip Two.

Yesterday Mom and I were checking out a display of wraps at the Knitche and I tried on a wonderful asymmetrical wrap with wonderful abalone buttons. I loved it and it was totally *me*. I was trying to think up a yarn substitute, when my eyes fell on the Malabrigo display. Cue lightbulb above head! I have EXACTLY enough of my purple & green Malabrigo to make the wrap, and I even have wonderful abalone buttons just like theirs.

I began on it last night and the fabric is SO lovely. I feel like it's 'clicking' now!

It doesn't look like much yet, but here's a pic.