Lumberjack hat

Size: Medium

Yarn: Léttlopi, two colors, one skein of each color,

Needle: circular knitting needle size 3,5, double pointed knitting needles size 3,5

Gauge: 19 st are 10 cm

                                           

Cast on 104 stitches on needles no 3.5 with the lighter color. Connect the ring.
Work in 2 x 2 ribbing till piece measures 9 cm from the beginning. When the last row is knitted the stitches are increased to 116 st on the knitting needle as this: knit 8 st, increase 1 st. This is done 13 times.
Switch to a darker color and work in stockinette st till piece measures 11 cm.
Knit till darker color measuring 2 cm.
Knit the stripes as follows:

         2 umferðir með ljósari litnum

         2 umferðir með dekkri litnum

         2 umferðir með ljósari litnum

         2 umferðir með dekkri litnum

         2 umferðir með ljósari litnum

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Prjónið áfram með dekkri litnum þar til allt stykkið mælist 18,5 cm.  
Þá hefst úrtaka.
     1. umferð: Prjónið 6 lykkjur, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman. Í lok hrings eru 5 lykkjur í afgang
     2. og 3. umferð eru prjónaðar sléttar án úrtöku. Þessar 2 umferðir eru prjónaðar á milli úrtökuumferðanna
     4. umferð: Prjónið 5 lykkjur, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman. Í lok hrings eru 5 lykkjur í afgang
     7. umferð: Prjónið 4 lykkjur, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman. Í lok hrings eru 5 lykkjur í afgang
    10. umferð: Prjónið 3 lykkjur, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman. Engin lykkja í afgang
    13. umferð: Prjónið 2 lykkjur, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman
    16. umferð: Prjónið 1 lykkju, prjónið 2 lykkjur saman
    19. umferð: Prjónið 2 lykkjur saman allan hringinn
    22. umferð: Prjónið 2 lykkjur saman allan hringinn
Klippið nú bandið og dragið það í gegn um allar lykkjurnar

 Frágangur: Gangið frá öllum endum. Skolið úr húfunni með sjampói og hárnæringu til að mýkja hana og látið þorna.

Árið 2019

gert upp. Allt sem sést hér fyrir neðan kláraðist á árinu 2019.

 Jólagjöf fyrir pabba minn

 Jólagjöf handa systrum

 Sjálf fyrir mig

 Sængurgjöf

 Eldhús handklæði handa mér

 Peysa fyrir mig

 Stuttermapeysa fyrir mig

 Sokkar handa dóttur

 Ég man ekki hver fékk þessa sokka

 Dúkku föt handa frænku ásamt

 Dúkkuhúfu og sokkum ásamt

 Dúkkuteppi

Peysa handa tengdadóttur
Ég sé að ég á eftir að taka mynd af einni kláraðir peysu sem ég prjónaði úr garni sem ég er búin að eiga í um 20 ár. 

Finished in 2019

There was a lot of things that I finished in 2019. Some of them are shown below.

This turned out to be a hat

Shawl by Stephen West - All the angles

Shawl by Romy Hill

6 cloths

Sweater made of wool

Halloween mittens

Sweater

Lopi mittens

Shawl by Stephen West

Bag sewn from old jeans

Socks

Cotton sweater

Bella - mittens made of lopi

Nancy sweater

Knit

for Christmas. 

This is part of what I knitted for Christmas presents. 

 My father got this Lopi sweater. He takes our dog out for a walk when my and my family have a long work- or school day and I wanted to give him something warm to wear on cold winters days. 

 The pattern is in Icelandic and English

 I also made a shawl for my mother. It is light and lace like. It is made of color changing yarn and knitted with needle no 4,5 instead of 3. 

Knitted and colored

This autumn I finished a sweater for my nice

 Since she thinks wool is uncomfortable, I decided to knit a cotton yarn sweater while following a pattern for a Norwegian woolen sweater 

 She loved that sweater and what is best is it does not sting like wool does

This fall I also tried to paint yarn with food colors. It was so much fun. I decided to paint a white einband. When I have time, I have decided to knit mittens with it and use white yarn as the main color.

Working with lopi

This winter, I decided to knit lopi mittens for my son. I used a pattern I wrote and can be found here but decided to cast on 36 sts instead of 34 and I also made then longer.

If I remember it right I made them longer with one extra round between the patterns. I do need to look at it better sometimes.

The son got them and they felt pretty warm when he went to a walk with the dog. (Do you see all the W?) He did not get cold on his hands during the winter after he got them.

Talking about the dog, I took out all my left over plötulopi and knitted a blanket for her (girl dog). She likes to lie on it. I have the blanket in a window that goes down to the floor and there she lies and monitors what happens outside.

Norwegian sweater

I finished this sweater (genser) in January. I used Sisu from Sandnes to knit it from and knitting needles no 2,5 and 3.

It took 2 years to knit it with some resting time in between. It has a lot of pattern in it but fortunately only with 2 colors.

My husband got the sweater when I finally finished it. The sleeves took the longest time to knit because I knitted them nearly five times. First they were too narrow, then I forgot the part of the pattern on one sleeve, but finally they were ready.

And here is the owner in his sweater

The pattern is in a issue from Sandnes yarn that I bought in Oslo. I enjoy knitting Norwegian sweaters but it has been rather small selection of sweater patterns in the knitting magazine that are published in Iceland. So it is a knitting feast when I go to Oslo.