In my last post I mentioned that I had completed projects with all the yarn I took on our trip apart from the airplane knitting project. So how about I show them all – two hats, mitts, a shawl, and the cowl and socks I made with yarn purchased.
My criteria for choosing these projects was that they had to be relatively easy but still hold some interest and I couldn’t worry about running out of yarn.
The hats and mitts were knit from yarn I had purchased in 2021. They are the same colourway, the hats in DK weight and the mitts in fingering weight. I thought instead of taking hats and gloves I could knit them on the journey and have them ready. I used two different hat patterns – Lonely Hearts Club, which I have knit before, and Chevron Rib Beanie which I ended up having to modify because as written the pattern makes a pointy hat.
The mittens were also heavily modified, which I was expecting before I even started. I like gloves with a top flap as you can keep your hands warm but when necessary, you can use your fingers. But I do not like the flapping flap on this style. Searching for patterns I came across one with a fold over flap but looking at the finished pictures, I liked the style but not the fit. I bought the pattern anyway so I would not have to think work out the construction while travelling and completed one mitt to see how it fit. I then worked out how many stitches I would need for my hand, frogged the original and worked two that fit to my liking. If I knit these again I would adjust the length before working the thumb hole.
I had some yarn I had purchased on the 2019 yarn crawl that I thought would work for baby knits, but it never happened. When searching on Ravelry for pattern ideas for that yarn, a lot of people had made the Virus Shawl, but I had already made one of those and didn’t want to make another. So with a bit more searching I came up with a shawl that used granny stitches and the virus stitch. And the beauty of the pattern is you can work any number of repeats of each pattern. The yarn is Katia Stella and the pattern is Starting with a Granny.
The other two items were knit with yarn purchased while we were travelling. There is a yarn shop in Bergen railway station. Obviously it caters to the residents of Bergen but as there was time between having to leave our accommodation and board the train I was able to have a quick look around and buy some sock yarn. It’s not the most exciting yarn and I’m not really sure why I chose the colour. I was determined to cast on before we left Norway and the socks were started on the bus to Sweden! I didn’t want to make plain socks but nothing too complicated either so I chose Moldau by Caoua Coffee.
And the other item was a cowl using yarn and pattern that my sister had given me and some yarn I purchased in Sweden.
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