This past weekend I went to an island called Grötö and Stickfest i Väst (Knitting party in the West). I’ve tried to write about it but it’s hard to do it short enough to fit in a blog post so I’ll try to summarize:
Awesome people! Lots of them, I think more than 70 persons (mostly women though to be honest)
Knowledge! So many people that know so much and willingly share it with each other
Maria is teaching twined knitting
Food! There was breakfast, lunch and dinner served, which meant I didn’t have to plan or prepare any food for a whole weekend! And coffee and tea whenever you wanted.
Cottages! We slept in cottages, I shared one with two of my friends.
Our cottage
I won lots of prizes; my favorites are the Malabrigo Lace that I won in the yarn lottery and a knitting bag made by Stickfrossa that I won in the competition The Fastest Knitter in the West.
Malabrigo Lace Paris Night
My knitting bag from Stickfrossa
The Fastest Knitter in the West-competition was really something else. Almost everybody participated and got prizes too! With 8 mm wooden needles and wool yarn that obviously was made for smaller needles. Ten people at the time knitted as much as they could for five minutes while the others were cheering like crazy around them and challenging them to do stuff like standing up, changing places, drink some wine and drop a needle. The winner was crazy fast! Her needles were blurry while she knitted. If she hadn’t hold on tightly to her needles it would have gone away like an arrow and somebody might have gotten badly hurt!
For a while now I’ve wished to learn how to do needle binding. I was talking to Ingrid Brundin and just happened to mention that and she immediately said she could teach me the first steps! She taught me one way to start and three different stitches so now I guess I’m hooked to this new technique too! One cannot have too many projects right? So now I’m needle binding my first pair of mittens, just by improvising.
Now that’s all I will write for now. Hope to post here more often but I can’t promise!
The candy I brought home
