A Potato Chip Pattern? (I Couldn't Knit Just One)

I released the red, blob from the blocking pins and wires and am very pleased at how it turned out. 

I found more golden yellow yarn in my stash and knit another one yesterday, ending at about 12:45am. It is the fourth one I've knit. This yarn is YvieKnits Sparkly Sock yarn - 75% merino superwash/20% nylon/5% stellina. I purchased it 12 years ago at the Campbellford Spin-in.

I used a small part of this skein for some of the buildings in my Trondheim mittens.

I have it pinned out, blocking. It will be dry later on today.

The lace pattern is pretty easy. No tricky stitches. Just knit, purl, SSK, k2tog, and yarnovers. The only bit to watch is going from purl sts to a yarn over to knit stitches. No need to move the yarn to the back after the purl sts - just follow with the knit stitches and the yarnover is automatically created. HOwever when going from knit stitches to a yarnover to purl stitches, the yarnover is done the normal way then wrapped around again to take the yarn to the front for the subsequent purl stitches. This could be tricky between patterns, especially when changing needles at that spot. However if the yarnover doesn't look obvious to knit into in the next round, it is easy to pick up between the knit and purl stitches. 

Sorry if that sounded like a lot of mumbo jumbo but if you're knitting this pattern it will make sense.

After taking care to put stitch markers at the beginning of every pattern on the first one I knit, I found it pretty easy to ready my knitting after that, knowing every round began with the purled stitches.

This pattern calls for more repeats of the chart so the neck warmer could even be worn as a cowl. I only ever used it as a neck warmer so kept it pretty short.

I blocked Poppy's beautiful lopapeysa (we are now using the Icelandic term for wool sweater). 

Although I rolled it a couple of times in towels to express a lot of water, I put a fan blowing on it to speed up the drying time. It doesn't affect the wool at all. I love how the white purled stitches give dimension to the yoke. Kinda like the Swedish Bohus technique, but definitely an Icelandic pattern.

This is a picture of the original Ranga sweater from the book, 'Knitting With Icelandic Wool'. It was designed by Védís Jónsdóttir.

You can see Poppy modified the pattern as a pullover. This necessitated starting the yoke pattern not in the centre front as a jog in the pattern between rounds would be apparent. Rather, she started the yoke pattern on the back where one sleeve joined the body. She knit a 2x2 ribbed collar with the lighter yarn (Lett-Lopi), folded it in half and tacked it down to the inside of where the yoke joins the collar, using a stretchy bindoff. Then all that was left was to graft the underarms. This was her first time doing kitchener stitch. Well done, Poppy!

It's stunning!

Kim and Meagan from Kimat Designs are home from Nashville and are holding an open house these next three days. I'm heading over there after my mani/pedi this afternoon.