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søndag 31. desember 2017

The story of "Vårkløver" - my next sweater pattern

In 2015, Ella Gordon and Kate Davies did a talk on collecting vintage knitwear during Shetland Wool Week. A video can be seen here, and a blogpost by Donna Smith here. I fell in love with one of Ella's sweaters.

In 2016, Ella Gordon was the patron of the wool week, and in her lecture, she talked about her designs, but also about her vintage collection, and we got to see some of it, among them my favourite. I could have a close look, and I asked Ella about the construction. She told me the sweater sould have been machine knitted, the body bottom up, and then stitches were picked up and the sleeves were knitted top down.

I liked the vintage feel of the seed stitch edging. From the chart book that had just come out, I found a beautiful hand coloured chart, and here's the first swatch.

The idea to add some texture to the plain body came from this gorgeous sweater seen at an exhibition at Islesburgh community centre. (I also have a hard time knitting a lot of plain stocking stitch...)

The yarn? Jamieson & Smith 2ply jumper weight

The main colour? 202, of course!

Cones of yarn are great value for money, if you can fit it in your luggage!

The pattern? Coming in 2018!

lørdag 21. oktober 2017

Wool Week Memories - knitting and eating

Exhibition at Bressay Lighthouse

Fisherman's sweater class with Julia (Woollenflower)

Lanb shank and Eton mess at Grand Hotel

Can't leave without having had tea and scones!

- at Bonhoga Gallery

I didn't knit these!

Shetland Textile Museum

Knitting, East Burra

Photographing new mittens, at Bannamin Beach

Mittens for good neighbours #3

Life line thumb

fredag 6. oktober 2017

Wool Week Memories - Lerwick

Who hasn't taken this photo from outside the museum?

And here's from the Guesthouse window.

A park we passed on our way to and from the classess....

... which took place at Isleburgh Community Centre

torsdag 5. oktober 2017

Wool Week Memories - Bressay

Exhibition at Bressay Lighthouse

onsdag 13. september 2017

My classes at Shetland Wool Week 2017

I am teaching two classes at Shetland Wool Week this year. The first is Knitting the thumb gusset .

There are still a few places available for this class, where I'll be teaching different ways to work the thumb gusset, and you'll be working the gusset on one of these mittens.

For this class you need to bring your own yarn and needles. The mittens are worked in fingering yarn, like Spindrift from Jamieson or the 2ply jumper weight from Jamieson & Smith. For the mitten body, the gauge is 28-30 sts in 10 cm in stranded pattern, so participants must bring needles to give gauge. You'll need two contrasting colours and a couple of stitch markers.

I ask participants to work the mitten cuff before class starts. Then they'll be all set for the thumb gusset. The cuff is plain ribbing: Cast on 48 sts and work ribbing k2, p2 for 7-8 cm.

The mittens were designed for this class, that I taught for the first time at SWW last year. They're called Mittens for good neighbours. The pattern is written for one main colour and one contrasting colour, but as you see from my photos, I have played with using differend shades for the main colour and different contrasting colours.

I'm sure everyone is looking as much forwards to going to Shetland as I do. It's not long now!

The other class I teach is Design your own mitten For this class no yarn is needed, unless people want to bring some for colour inspiration. We'll be working with pencil and paper, so participants should bring coloured pencils and eraser. A handout will be provided. I ask participants to work a gauge swatch before class starts. Then they'll be all set for the design planning.

This class is full.

For an additional price of £15 payable on the day of the class the book “Eventyrvotter” is included.

The book is in Norwegian, but you get a download link to get 14 of the 20 patterns in English as well (as two Ravelry e-books). You can see the patterns from the book on Ravelry.

See you soon!

torsdag 20. mars 2014

Next year in Lerwick... med garnkit

.. eller rettere sagt, "This year in Lerwick".

Mesnabrua, Lillehammer.
(pussig så rart jeg står med fingrene her...)

Da jeg først så for meg genseren, drømte jeg om å reise til Lerwick på Shetland Wool Week i fjor høst. Der skulle jeg kjøpe garn til den planlagte fairisle-genseren. Det ble ikke noe av. I stedet kjøpte jeg norsk garn, Rauma Finullgarn, og det ble jo bra det også. Navnet ga seg selv... i år blir det Shetlandtur i oktober. Og flere gensere dukker opp, i år. Blant annet i Sverige. Og nå har du muligheten til å strikke den i Shetland Super Soft fra Malsen og Mor. Unni har satt sammen vakre farger til fem forskjellige kit, inspirert fra Lerwick.