Knitting
Last week I had to spend 5 days in Stockholm. Before I left home I checked out some shops nearby to visit during the evening, so I would have something to do and came across: Marias knittingshop
I saw on her website that she gave private knittingclasses as well, so I called her and booked one together with Weronica who came over to spend an evening with me in Stockholm. I only knew how to knit very basic stuff so she learned us how to do lace knitting. She was very nice and did a great job on making some samples for us and giving us additional information for next projects!. I knit the american way. People here in Sweden knit differently so I had to adjust a bit to see how I had to do it, but Maria was a great help. This is the test piece we made there:
This is what I took home with me:
At home I started working with the pink yarn, but it was so thin I couldn't really get a pattern in it:
So I started again with the red yarn I got from Cathi, this is what it looks like now, it is going to be a scarf...so I have some knitting left to do!...:-)))
So if you are ever in Stockholm, visit Maria!
I saw on her website that she gave private knittingclasses as well, so I called her and booked one together with Weronica who came over to spend an evening with me in Stockholm. I only knew how to knit very basic stuff so she learned us how to do lace knitting. She was very nice and did a great job on making some samples for us and giving us additional information for next projects!. I knit the american way. People here in Sweden knit differently so I had to adjust a bit to see how I had to do it, but Maria was a great help. This is the test piece we made there:
This is what I took home with me:
At home I started working with the pink yarn, but it was so thin I couldn't really get a pattern in it:
So I started again with the red yarn I got from Cathi, this is what it looks like now, it is going to be a scarf...so I have some knitting left to do!...:-)))
So if you are ever in Stockholm, visit Maria!
Labels: knitting, quiltbarbara
posted by Pink and Barbara at 9:16 AM
5 Comments:
Barbara,
This is beautiful. I didn't realize that people in different countries quilted differently.
What's different about the American way? How come you knit that way? The piece of pink yarn looks like lovely lace in the picture.
What's the different of swedish knitting and the way you knitted before? That would be interesting to hear.
The pink yarn looks like it'd make lovely lace, it'd just need to be blocked when finished, the red is beautiful too though. I love the photo of all the knitting stuff you got all together in the basket.
That's beautiful! I've never trired lace knitting but I'm having a ton of fun with socks.
Judy L.
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