baby likes clapotis

in my dream "hey look i knit a clapotis!" photo shoot, i am nonchalantly demonstarting the glamorous versatility of my finished object a la dogsstealyarn.  and in my dream photos, you can see that, whilst donning my fresh-off-the-needles clapotis, i do indeed posess a bit of the "je suis belle et ça ne demande aucun effort" spirit that kate gilbert mentions in her introduction to the pattern.  i'm going to go ahead and guess that in these pictures, i'm actually *not* wearing what is, for all intents and purposes, a tee-shirt shaped spit up cloth, and in fact, there is nothing soggy, damp, mysteriously moist, or crusty anywhere.  maybe i also have a recent haircut.  

i hope that you will trust me when i tell you that my clap is done and it is lovely.  i had decided to make one back when i was pregnant with greta, thinking it would make for a nice cover up type thing for nursing.   it had been a while since i'd nursed anyone and i forgot that my general sense of modesty goes out the window when there's a hungry baby involved. regardless, i am sure that i will wear my clapotis often come cooler weather. 

my favorite thing about this project:  i cast on for this clapotis on january 14th and it was in the wee hours of that very night that my (very) slow-but-steady labor started.  so who knows, maybe the clapotis is a labor inducer!  i know i heard of stranger things as my patience dwindled, waited for this baby to come.  day one of labor was mellow enough for some knitting in between contractions, and so i worked on the set up rows. there are plenty of mistakes. a lot of varying widths in the stockinette sections that ought to all be uniform. but hey, i think i have an excuse! and while i most certainly did not knit the clapotis for the baby, it gives me a fair amount of joy to see that, indeed, she likes it.