Knitting event at Grötö

Yesterday I and my friend Lisa (who also is the one that brought me into the world of Yarn a couple of years ago) went to visit a knitting event at an island called Grötö outside the coast of Gothenburg. This event was a smaller version of SiV which is arranged every year in March at Grötö.

Lisa was supposed to pick me up around two but about 15 minutes before that she called and told me that her car had broken down! You have to go by ferry to the island and the ferry only leaves every second hour. She lives further away from where we were going than I do but we decided that I should pick her up instead and we hoped to make it in time for the ferry we were planning to go with anyway. Luckily we made it just in time and arrived at the event around three.


Lisa at the event

It was a lot of people there already and I believe most of them were staying the night. Me and Lisa had to go back home in the evening though. I sat down next to Sandy and on my other side there was a nice man with the same name as my son, Wilhelm. He taught me how to crochet a net and another way of making Tunisian stitches than those I already knew. That’s one of the greatest things of meeting with fellow yarn lovers, you can learn from each other.


Wilhelm with his crochet net

I also met Slavi from Denmark who sells yarn on the internet. He had brought some yarn for sale with him to Grötö. I bought a couple of lovely skeins of Colinette JitterBug, the colorway Forest!We had a great afternoon and evening with people I had never met before, much laughter and inspiration for many new projects.


The lovely JitterBug I bought

I got home about half past eleven and was really tired then. I really hope that I will make it to the real SiV in March!


Me with hook and yarn crocheting a small bag

I brought my camera but had forgotten to put in the memory card so the photos of me and Wilhelm were taken with my iPhone.