Summerwork

What a long time it is since I wrote last time. Time passes fast when you are having fun. 

I finished this sweater early this summer and I am very happy with it. It´s made of yarn that has among other fibers linen.  I dug that yarn out of my stock. The colors are much greener than the picture shows.

Then I knitted Lopi sweater for my husband. I knitted it from a leftover wool. It is knit on needles no. 8 and three-plate plðtulopi.

One of my niece's is a dollmama and she ordered this hat for her doll wich had no hat that matched well on the dollhead.

 The same aunt got this pillow for her birthday.

Then there was the jam  making. I made rhubarb jam, rhubarb- and datejam and red currant jelly.

That´s it. Those are the crafts and agriculture work I did this summer.

Bookstore and knitting

The other day I went to the bookstore Nexus, wich is by the way my favorite bookstore in Reykjavík.

  

There is a range of handicraft books witch are different than the selection in other bookstores.

 There I got this wonderful crochet book. In the book is a girl I will someday crochet and lots of clothes and other items for her. And the pictures, lovely.

 Then there is the world champion sweater I decided to knit while watching the games. It had to be rather easy to knit so I can knit and watch the tv.

 I decided to knit a sweater from Sandnes yarn.

   I did change the pattern so I knit it in circle in stead of flat. Then I'm going to steek it and sew some nice looking band into it so the edges will not roll out like seen in the picture.

And then there is some knitting to do. Go Germany

Granny blanket

This is what I've been doing recently.

 Cute Quilt made of granny squares. Here you can see how granny square is crocheted.

 The quilt is crocheted from a simple plate wool (Icelandic plötulopi) and the size so that it fits well to throw it over me in a couch or chair when watching television or reading a good book.

Now is the time to choose something comfortable on the knitting needles to knit when watching the World Cup. It has to be something TV-friendly so you do not miss cool game and great goals.

Recycle

The cat in the household has selected a chair in our home as a favorite chair. The problem is that, that same chair is also my favorite.

That chair was therefore pretty often loaded with cat hair when I was going to sit in it.

The solution was to sew a little quilt from old jeans to use as a blanket on the chair.

Now that I'm going to sit in the chair, I just have to take the quilt of the chair and it's ready for me. Since I did 2, I can always put one in the washing machine and use the clean one on the chair. A stroke of genius that took me long time to get.

Finally, here is a picture of my little niece in the sweater I knitted for her. I need to find some time to write the pattern and publish it on this page.

New knitting magazine

came with the post today.

There were lot of nice summer patterns to knit

and interesting articles to read.

It was wonderful to sit out for a little sun and look through the magazine, read the articles and dream about those nice summer knitwear I wanted to knit.

Lopisweater

I finished a "Lopapeysa" wich is not in the traditional style the other day.

It is covered with rope-pattern and lace-holes in between.

I'm not going to say how long it took to knit this sweater but it was a veeeery long time, mainly because I got into trouble with the pattern, and also managed entirely by self to make mistakes in it and had therefore to take some pauses knitting it.

I do not quite understand what wet Lopasweater is irresistable for some cats but this one was sleeping on it for a considerable time.

My Norveginan sweater

is ready.

I'm very happy with it (like with most of the things í knit or crochet or..., hehe). And the buttons, so pretty.

The pattern is from an old copy of "Prjónablaðinu Ýr" (and originally  from Sandnes yarn).  I made no changes with the pattern or the color choice, which is pretty unusual for me. If anything should have been knitted differently, I should maybe have made it 4 cm longer.

The color combination is great and the pattern is beautiful. I had to rip out 11 rounds in the pattern, but it was ok because it was quite okay to knit it again.