The imaginative life
Notes on making the Leizla hat When I knitted the second sample for Leizla, I decided to use whatever leftover yarns I had available at home. A skein of white superwash DK wool yarn, I thought, for this design would work beautifully. In a subconscious lapse into some kind of freestyle knitter rebellion, I didn't weigh… Continue reading Running Out of Yarn
A while ago, a book from the public library titled, “The Mitten in the Norwegian Tradition” by Ingebjørg Gravjord sparked my interest for mittens. It wasn’t, as first expected, a standard knitting pattern book, but a thorough analysis of "the mitten" in Norwegian cultural history. Mitten-wearing is as old as the practical human… Continue reading The Meaning of Mittens
