It’s January, which means another Challenge or Knit-A-Long! (Not that these Big Guys are knitting. Rather, they seem to be stirring up trouble here at Loopy Central at the moment.) I had something in mind for this quarter, but in the meantime, Anne in MD started a Clapotis Knit-A-Long on the Loopy Groupie board on Ravelry. There are so many of you working on that (myself included!) that I think it’s wise not to muddy up the waters and add yet another one. So – jump in and join us! It started January 1st and you will find the pattern for free on Knitty.com (here’s the Clapotis link by the brilliant Kate Gilbert). I’m making mine out of some Hand Maiden Sea Silk that I had in my stash. (Well, technically it was in my stash because I frogged the project I had started with it. Twice.) This is the first time I’ve done a Clapotis and I’m having a lot of fun with it. There’s something refreshing about purposely dropping stitches and watching them unravel. 🙂 Now I really want to make another one out of Amy’s Vintage Office. It’s on my new list. So leave a comment below if you’re participating in this KAL with us. The fun thing about the Clapotis is that you can use any yarn that strikes your fancy. Different weights and materials will render different sizes and draping, but it’s all fun. If you’re on Ravelry, check out the Clapotis link to see what others have used and how it looks. I’m not sure when it ends on the Loopy Groupie board, but we’ll leave it open here for the first quarter, meaning you should finish by 3/31 and have your photos posted by 4/15. (Here’s a tip from Sandy in WY that I thought was great. She added a stitchmarker to the very bottom starting point of her triangle, to keep it from curling up. I wish I had known that when I started, as it about drove me nuts. I’ll definitely use that tip on the next one.) Be sure to add your photos from the 4th Qtr. Challenge ’08 to the Photo Gallery by 1/15 so that we can vote and award prizes.
Update on the things that many of you have been emailing me about and asking!
1. We do have Schaefer’s new Nichole yarn on order and the first part of our order is shipping out this week. We’ll have it up asap. We may put the first half up and then the rest later when it arrives, instead of making you wait for the whole thing. We also do have more Anne, Lola and Andrea on order for you.
2. Namaste’s Zuma Eggplant order is stuck in Customs at the moment. They’re hoping they’ll have it to ship out to all of their shops by mid-January. They know we’re all anxious to get it in! If you are on our pre-order list, we still have one with your name on it for you. If you did not pre-order and want to, I do still have a few available from this first order. Email me.
3. Sock Club details coming in Friday’s Blog Post. Sign-ups begin next Monday, the 12th.
4. Malabrigo Sock and Worsted – have been on order for a long time, and we’re not sure when it will be in. But we’re looking forward to getting it.
5. I’m heading off to our twice-a-year TNNA Market in a week, so that I can stay on top of all of the new yarns and trends for you! Email me if there is any line/yarn you’d like me to look into while I’m there. I’ll add it to my list.
6. Did you catch this week’s Sneak Up? We added lots of Hand Maiden Casbah, bellamoden Fingering, new Tempted Roving, Gypsy Knits DK, Loopy Soap, Romney Ridge Calendars, Addi Clicks, Opal Wintermarchen, and patterns from Figheadh and Nelkin Designs.
Lastly, Happy 25th Anniversary to my Wonderful Hubby. 🙂 I remember thinking 25 years was a long long time when my parents celebrated their 25th. It seems to go pretty fast when you’re the one in it! We were married on a cold, snowy night and it was beautiful. I added this particular photo because so many of you know my friend Janice, and if I’m going to show what Paul and I looked like 25 years ago, then I think you ought to see Janice and Steve, too. It was a fun weekend with all of our favorite friends and family there with us!
Sheri whothinkswealllookjustthesametoday(cough)
Happy 25th Anniversary Sheri & Paul! I you both have a wonderful day. Our anniversary is tomorrow – 27 yrs. Count me in for the Clapotis KAL. 🙂
I don’t know about Steve and Paul but you and Janice look exactly the same as 25 years ago. Happy anniversary!
Count me in on the Clapotis KAL. It may be March before I cast on as I’m still “doing over” some Christmas 2008 knitting (the mitts didn’t fit so you must acquit) and I want to finish a couple of OTN projects before I start any new.
Happy Anniversary!
I am working on my Clap KAL. I am using Tuscan Grove-Red Pepper Flake and I absolutely am in LOVE! The color and the yarn! This is my 2nd Clap and I find it even more fun the second time around! 🙂 Oh, and I did add the marker at the bottom, but I used a plastic stitch marker (the ones that look like a diaper pin) and placed a heavier stitchmaker on it. Works wonderfully!
Happy Anniversary! Count me in for the Clapotis KAL as long as we have more then a week. No way I’ll be done by 1/15.
Happy Anniversary!
I’m in the Clap KAL too – using my Wollmeise in Indisch Rot. Still stuck in the increase sections, since I can only work on it after the toddler goes to bed and usually by the time that happens I’m exhausted so I go to bed too! Hopefully I’ll get some time on it this weekend!
I tied a heavy paper clip to my tail to solve the curling up problem.
Thanks for the Mal worsted update, I’m eagerly waiting its arrival, whenever that may be.
Congratulations on your 25th Anniversary. I say you all probably look pretty
much the same. I have too many things to do to start a Clap, but if my
life was freer, I would probably like to try it. It looks awfully big.
funny, today is my 7 month anniversary. turns out we got married on prince’s (formerly the symbol) 50th birthday. 25 years seems a long way off…..although technically i guess it’s only 24 years and 5 months. congrats.
25 years? Wow! You must have been 12, though ;>
Congratulations on 25 years! That’s quite a milestone…
I’m planning on doing the Clap KAL although I haven’t started. I’m thinking Wollmeise 100% although right now, I don’t have two skeins of one color and am wondering if I can use just one since their yardage is so generous? I’ll dig around and find out.
This year is our 30th – wow! Who’d have thought he’d put up with me for this long?
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! What a wonderful milestone in these days. Enjoy your anniversary. I think you look even younger today than on your wedding day…must be all of the relaxation from knitting!
Take care and have fun in the sun at TNNA.
CONGRATULATIONS on your 25th!
Happy anniversary@
My brother and his wife are celebrating their 25th anniversary today too. Congratulations. I remember the weather being kind of icky in Kansas that night too. I think I will join in on this knit along since I have some Schaefer Anne that didn’t want to be anything else and it has been kind of hinting to be a Clapotis. Can’t wait to see what you find at TNNA.
Happy Anniversary! And count me in on the KAL. I just haven’t decided what I’m using for it yet.
Happy Anniversary!
I’m using sea silk for my Clapotis too- cornflower. So far it’s pretty, I’m doing it in garter stitch instead of stockinette- no curling!
i will join y’all in spirit on that KAL. I am currently knitting a top that has dropped stitches instead of a clapotis. 🙂
Congratulations on your 25th and a Very Happy Anniversary. I love your picture. You look beautiful, so does Janice. What a great friendship. Hope you have a fabulous day. Hugs
Happy Anniversary Sheri & Paul! I hope you both got a chance to celebrate in a big way!
My hubby & I have 4 more years to go before that milestone in our lives and I’m looking forward to it.
Happy Anniversary I think that you and Janice look great then and now! At least you are not doing what I did for my 25th, putting up hurricane shutters! I am doing the KAL, I am finally using my Wollmeise from last years fling. Now I am starting to understand why everyone wants it.
I’m in the Clapotis KAL – I’m using Wollmeise Suzanne Dark
Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations ! I hope you have a wonderful day.I am sure the kids will call to help you celebrate your 25th anniversary.
That is the cutest picture of the four of you.I am sure you feel exactly the same as you did when that was taken.Time passes so quickly but in our minds were are still that young !
Thanks for all that you and Paul do for the knitting community.You are the best.
Pretty sure I didn’t give permission for this photo to be used….. Can it really have been 25 years already??? Where did they go? You and Paul do look great! And it was a wonderful weekend!
Happy anniversary, and blessings for another 25+ years!
Count me in for the Clapotis KAL, please. I am using Wollmeise, Jultomte.
Happy Anniversary!
Oh, and Happy Anniversary from all of us!!
Congratulations on the anniversary!
I have some yarn in my wishlist (in stock) that I put there for a second Clapotis. I think this must be a sign! I just got my first Loopy order, so I think I will have to wait just a little while before I will be “allowed” to put in another. I will start late, but I will be in the KAL too! I hope nobody buys my yarn before then!
Happy Anniversary! 🙂
Happy Anniversary!!!!!!! Wow, what an amazing milestone to reach. And I love the picture – it gives me a nice feeling when I see people who have been friends for so long. Gosh, at this point they’re family!
I’m in the Clap-Along as well – I’m using the Cascade Heritage Sock yarn I ordered from you a few months ago (it didn’t want to become my sister’s shawl but condecended to knit into the Clap). Trying to figure out what I’ll make my next one from – I have some similar skeins of sock yarn I may use up.
Congratulations!
I’m using Wollmeise 100% in Veilchen for my Clapotis. The color is gorgeous! I’m sad not to have this in my stash anymore, so I guess I’ll be stalking The Loopy Ewe over the next few weeks. 😉
Happy Anniversary Sheri and Paul!!
I’m making Clapotis #3 from Malabrigo (again…. ) This time a half size in worsted….. I think I may end up with a rainbow of Mal Clapotis, so far Stonechat worsted, Blackberry Silky, now Verde Adriana worsted…..wonder what it’ll be next? 😉
Happy anniversary!
I’ll join the KAL. Clapotis is on the to do list and I have silk garden lite set aside for it. This is a good nudge to get started and finished!
Happy Anniversary! You all look like BABIES! Babies, I say! 😀
I’m in the Clap KAL and enjoying making another – I think this is #8 I made a lot of them as gifts a few years ago. I’m using the Great Adirondak yarn – I’ll be a bit short, but I like how it’s turning out.
Hey – been meaning to ask – any chance of the big Attenti bags again any time?
A 🙂
Happy Anniversary!!! 🙂
I’m in the Clapotis KAL. I’m using Malabrigo Lace in Amoroso. It is sooooo soft!
Happy Anniversary!!!
You will love your Clapotis knit from Handmaiden Seasilk. I knit one for a friend’s 50 th bday http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkknitter/685084100/in/set-72157594399774087/ It was amazing to knit …. I love working with Seasilk. When I finished the one to be gifted I promised myself I’d knit one for me. I have the yarn … maybe I should join the KAL.
I am in the Clapotis KAL. It is my first Clapotis and I am making it from Blue Moon Fiber Arts Silkie Socks That Rock in the Walkin’ on the Wild Tide colorway. I got the yarn in their sock club in 2007 and thought I would prefer to use it for something else. Later, I ordered an extra couple of skeins (just to be on the safe side).
I’ve got to use up some of this stash so I can order more yarn from TLE!
Wishing you many more happy years together!
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!!
You all look as good and happy as you did 25 years ago 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS! Woo hoo! 🙂 25 years is a great, great accomplishment. All the best to the two of you! Dang, what a cute couple you guys are. When was that taken, last week? 😉
It took me over two years to make my Clapotis, and I don’t know if I can face another. My mother actually saw and touched mine when it was in progress during the last visit we had before she passed away. It took me a long time to finish it up after that, since it reminded me so much of that trip, and it’s very special to me. I think it needs to remain an only child–er, project. 🙂
Happy Anniversary! That photo is so sweet and I’m glad you showed us Janice, too. You both looked just as beautiful then as you do now. We just had our 20th anniversary last year and I know what you mean about the passage of time. 20 years ago I thought I would feel old by now but I feel pretty much the same. Hope you have a fun time celebrating!
Happy Anniversary, Sheri and Paul. That’s quite an accomplishment.
Wow, you look like such a child bride!
Happy Anniversary! 25 years is great! Here’s to another 25!
PS – I’ve done one clapotis in Wollmeise Dornroschen – it’s beautiful!
I have two skeins of STR set aside for another one, but I’ve yet to begin it. Good luck with yours – it’s a great and simple pattern! I agree that it’s a bit fun to drop those stitches! 🙂
Happy Anniversary
We are blessed to call you daughter and son-in-law. We love you dearly.
Love
Mom and Dad
Happy Anniversary!!!! Your son looks so much like his dad. That is a wonderful picture.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! Best wishes for many, many more happy and healthy anniversaries!
I am in the Clapotis KAL – really enjoying it! I thought I wouldn’t be able to put all my socks down but this is fun and I think it’s going to be a new addiction.
Happy Anniversary!!!!!! Many, many more years of happiness and love!!!!
Hmmmm I may have to join in on the KAL… the Clapotis has been on my list of things to do for quite a while…
Happy Anniversary!
I’m in the KAL using Wollmeise in Raku-Regenbogen. Its a really fun knit!
Happy Anniversary!
I’m doing the Clap KAL too! Emil from Wollmeise.
Had to frog it last night cause I had what looked like a hole. Looked at other peoples and they did too. Shoot. I would be that much further ahead!!
Happy Anniversary to you both! I love the photo.
I would have loved to have joined the Clapotis KAL, but I already have one in progress. It’s such a great pattern–I’m on my second one, and I think there will be several more.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! You 4 all just looked as grand then as you do now! WH and I will celebrate 29 this year…..it seems to go by so fast. Wishing you all many more wonderful years.
Happy 25th to both of you! Here’s to many, many more! 🙂 We’ll hit 33 this year. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it?
I’m in the KAL too, using my Wollmeise Poison No 5. I’ll be stalking for more and hopefully catch the sneak-up!