Icelandic Lopapeysa Sweater • 04.05.10
The Inspiration for a Warm Sweater...
When your country looks like Iceland in winter, one of the first things you think about is warmth, and keeping warm.
Using the Natural Materials
When your country has sheep with an incredibly thick fleece, you will find ways of utilising it to provide the warmth that every body craves.
The fleece that keeps out the Icelandic winter
Was Your Winter Cold?
The winter of 2009-2010 has been long and hard, the coming of spring delayed, we could learn from Iceland.
The Lopapeysa in action..
I hadn’t knitted a lopapeysa before, but once I started and worked through the pattern methodically ten rows at a time, I was pleased that it was ‘ doable’
Warm enough for action...
Nursery Rhyme
I love this nursery rhyme from Iceland, but you don’t have to start at four, I proved it!
Now you have come to your fourth
year Your work you will begin- That is
learning the three arts:
To read, to knit, to spin. -Icelandic nursery rhyme
