The soft autumnal drizzle has turned to full-on rainfall — and I have the most delicious afternoon plans involving endless cups of tea and some pretty knitting 🙂

While pondering knitting projects for our trip to New York City, I remembered the Clapotis scarf I had begun last year (or maybe sometime before that?). A fairly simple pattern (tho not mindless) worked in lace-weight Mountain Colos Hand-Painted Yarn (wool/silk).  Rich autumnal colors!  

The Clapotis is knit with intensional drops and the scarf will be riddled with lacy ladders that will make it so very versatile — wrap-able, drape-able.  It is compact knitting since the drops are not fully accomplished until the piece is finished.  Perfect travel knitting! (And so it proved to be — tho with all the shows, museums, restaurants, shops we experienced in NYC this trip, there was little time for knitting! except on the plane — and it was ideal for that).

With the Holidays coming up, I decided to start the Gossamer Shawlette kit I bought at Madrona last winter.  It uses a ridiculously glittery bronze yarn with a metallic strand and tiny sequins.  The shawl on display was drop-dead gorgeous!  I definitely crave some scintillation for the Christmas season and the Gossamer Shawlette  promises to make my party wardrobe fabulous!  It has a fairly simple lace pattern that steadily increases.

The metallic-stranded and sequin-threaded cotton yarn is not troublesome to knit, thank heavens, but it does flicker quite a bit — especially reflecting our ceiling lights in the evening — something between a disco ball and sporadic lasers!  Better to knit it in the softer daylight of afternoon!