The next shawl

Evilla 50%linen 50%wool

I have been thinking a lot about what will be my next lace project and for who. There was a yarn at my favourite yarn store in Hafnarfjörður was always catching Gummi's attention but not mine really, I wasn't really sure about the color. It is a blend of linen and wool from Evilla. Finally, I decided to buy one skein for Gummi so he could try it. The funny thing is that after looking at it for a while I started to like it a lot also! Besides I have been looking for a yarn with a solid color (not color changing) and unfortunetely most of the yarn from Evilla is not solid except for a couple of skeins... so I ended up buying three skeins (all of it actually... they were the last ones in this color).


Then, I had the yarn but I was still missing two things: what to knit and for who. I suddenly came up with the idea of knitting a shawl for Irene, to whom I had already given a lopapeysa. She will get married in September and I thought that this would be the perfect gift for her and she could maybe even wear it during the ceremony. So, I told her about my idea and she got SO EXCITED about it! Especially because she was thinking about getting something to cover her shoulders and back during the church ceremony and had no clue about what to use! I guess that my idea came just at the right moment for her!

This will become Irene's shawl :)

The orange yarn woud probably be too bright for an occasion like this. I decided then to invite her to come with me to the yarn store (We actually went to a supermarket called Fjarðarkaup that has a very good "knitting section")  and see what we could find there. In the end, we decided to use Loðband, icelandic lace wight yarn, both because it is icelandic and it i very light and can be warm to wear during winter. The color, she went for a classical white.

Taken from The Haapsalu shawl

Next step: Pattern. We went through some of the books I have and her eye was cought almost immediately by Estonian lace. We took a look at The Haapsalu Shawl. She marked about ten patterns that she liked to finally decide for a very simple pattern: just leafs and no nupps. It will be a long rectangle with a sewn on edge all around and with nupps.



Irene's shawl got really excited, almost beyond words, because I have never used Loðband and most importantly because the shawl will be part of a very special day in the life of a very special person :)

Recepient: Done.

Yarn: Done.

Pattern: Done.

Vetur: beginning the yoke.

I am now planning to finish my Vetur that is going really well even though I didn'tn manage to finish it during the weekend (busy, busy weekend). But I already began the yoke: FINALLY! It is looking pretty good and definetely bigger than the first one. I hope to finish it tonight and start with Irene's shawl!

Oh, and I was forgetting that when Irene and me were at the store she insisted in letting me let her buy some wool for my stash (which was totally uncecessary). Then I thought of a friend that I would really like to surprise with either a shawl or a shawlette... so she gave me four skeins of a pale rose (I am not sure about how to call the color) einband that now are waiting in my stash to become a shawl :)

Pale rose?

And the last thing for today... On friday I got really excited bacause when I got home around six I found in the mailbox a notification from the post office saying that there was a package for me! Finally! After three and a half weeks the box that my sister sent me from Chile had arrived! I went to the post office as quickly as I could. I got there at 18.03 and it was closed! (at 18.00)To my disappointment  I had to wait until monday to go get the box.

I got my old Zenit camera! (along with merquén and roasted peanuts) I had totally forgotten that I had this camera until I saw Genieviève and Kristina use theirs! I hope that mine is still working!

Happy Eastern for eveyone!

Gleðilega Páska!

¡Feliz Pascua de Resurreción!