It is always good to expand your vocabulary. This week I read an article in the Guardian about styling tips to spice up your wardrobes, which announced “Drapescaping is the new tablescaping”. It says: “Just as tablescaping is a fancy word for setting the table, drapescaping is a fancy one for wearing a scarf.” Ha ha! If drapescaping is cool and stylish, then we knitters have been cool all along! Who knew?

Here at Knitigating Circumstances, we have been unknowingly drapescaping for years! In hand-knitted shawls, no less!

Here we are drapescaping in 2023:

Above is Emma, in 2023, in Trafalgar Square, wearing Gresham Wrap.

And Kelly, in 2023, Lake Geneva, wearing Stole.

Here we are drapescaping in 2022:

Above is Emma, in 2022, in Vancouver, wearing Tadami.

Here we are drapescaping in 2021:

Above we have Kelly, in 2021, in Shiplake, Oxfordshire, wearing Gresham Wrap.

Here we are drapescaping in 2020:

Above is Doug, in 2020, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Match & Move.

And Kelly, in 2020, in Watlington, wearing Cool Boots Neutrals.

Here we are drapescaping in 2019:

Above is Kelly, in 2019, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Tadami.

Here we are drapescaping in 2018:

Above is Leah, in 2018, in London, at the British Museum, wearing my Gold Reversible Cable-ribbed Shawl.

Here we are drapescaping in 2017:

Above is Doug, in 2017, in Cape Town….No! Wait just a minute, Doug! Yes, it has 5 letters. Yes, it begins with an ‘S’. Yes, it drapes around your neck. But, it doesn’t count. I am here to say authoritatively that snakes don’t count for drapescaping.

Above is Kelly, in 2017, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Cool Boots. (The boots are indeed cool, but in this case that is also the name of the Shawl pattern.)

Here we are drapescaping in 2016:

Emma, Doug, and Leah, in 2016, in Vancouver, wearing hand-knitted cowls. (Cowls may not technically be scarves, but these ones are all drapey, so I declare them okay.)

Above is Emma, in 2016, In Sicily, wearing Viajante.

Above is Kelly, in 2016, in Sicily, wearing the Gold Reversible Cabled-rib Shawl.

Here we are drapescaping in 2015:

Above is Kelly, in 2015, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Soumak.

Here we are drapescaping in 2014:

Above is Leah, in 2014, in London, wearing Cabernet Infinity Scarf.

Above is Kelly, in 2014, in Tucson, wearing Green Reversible Cabled-Rib Shawl.

Here we are drapescaping in 2013:

Above is Leah, in 2013, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, in February Scarf.

Here we are drapescaping in 2012:

Above is Emma, in 2012, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Carnaby. Wait just a minute, Emma! Carnaby is a skirt! Like I told Doug above: Yes, it has 5 letters. Yes, it starts with ‘S’. Yes, it drapes around your neck. But it is not a shawl. It sure is pretty, though. Okay, I will make an executive decision: Skirts can be drapescaped if done so with panache, like Emma does. (Jeez! Like father, like daughter!)

Here we are drapescaping in 2011:

Above is Kelly, in 2011, in our backyard, Oxfordshire, wearing Study Stripe Shawl. This photo comes from my very first post on this blog!

Knitigating Circumstances drapescapes with the best of them!

Below you can find some of the posts where I write about individual shawl projects, in case you want more details on the pattern, yarn, etc.

Gresham Shawl – It’s not how big it is, it’s what you do with it

Stole – Satisfying stripes

Match & Move – Finished at last

Tadami – Laceweight cashmere shawl

Cool Boots – A pattern to celebrate my 300th post

Cool Boots Neutrals – The ‘Cool Boots’ Shawl goes Neutral

Cowls – Cowl-a-bunga!

Viajante – Viajante means traveller

Gold Reversible Cabled-rib shawl – Gilded paradise

Soumak – Suddenly, Soumak!

Green Reversible Cabled-rib Shawl – Green, glorious green!

Februaury Scarf – Cold comfort

Carnaby – It’s Super Carnaby!

Study Stripe Shawl – Stripes