That was definitely close. I finished the Clapotis for my mother-in-law last Friday with 2.5 yards left to spare. It felt like a race to the finish… thankfully, I won. It would have been a royal pain in the ass to have to rip back to reclaim yarn in order to finish. I spent a good deal of time during the decrease section glaring at the Clapotis then trying to gauge how much yarn I had left. There were even a few times when I tried to weight the increase section from the beginning against what was left of my yarn ball… one in each hand… doing that balancing scale hand action… geez, I must have looked like a freak.

This shot is just to show you the colors. The yarn was Laurel from Schaefer Yarns in their Empress Wu Zhao colorway. I still need to soak it and lay it out to get rid of the curling and to straighten out the dropped stitches a little. The advice I got at my LYS was to just add a glug of vinegar along with the wool wash stuff. (Rebecca, I have no idea if lemon juice would work… definitely acidic… something to look into.) I’m probably going to go with the vinegar since that’s what I have on hand at the moment. No way am I going out for a lemon tonight… it’s dark, wet, the day before a holiday in the San Francisco Bay Area, which means that people are wandering around in moronic hazes in their large SUVs. Nope, not going out tonight.

The Husband is beginning to set the table for dinner… he’s made crab and corn bisque… mmmm… crab. I helped pick the meat out of the two crabs we picked up earlier today. I love Dungeness crab season. Yum!