I’ve made some progress on the Clapotis — I’m on the sixth repeat of the straight rows. I think I may watch a couple of movies today and try to get the remaining six repeats done. It worked last weekend.

This is the Clap before I started the straight section and before the dropped stitches, on the hood of my car because I thought the natural light would help show the yarn color better, but obviously I didn’t get my aperture and timing right:

This is what I have right now, after 6 straight repeats and with (intentionally!) dropped stitches (the same length is hanging over the back of the neighbor’s chair):

Here is detail of the dropped stitches:

The pattern calls for 18 stitch markers. I started the Clap using my regular markers, which are plastic. After a few rows, one broke due to the way I hold my work. Obviously the plastic markers were not going to last the entire way. At my last trip to my LYS I noticed a new product, rubber stitch markers. I thought about buying those, but realised I had enough items at home that would do the job. Being the freak office supply whore, I put together two reinforcement labels (for hole punches) and they work perfectly! You can bend the shit out of them and they won’t break or tear, and they’re skinny enough to not mess up the work.