Stash’ed: Icelandic Yarn
When my good friend Allison had a twelve hour layover in New York back in November, I was delighted! She and I, on average, only see each other once a year and this would be our third get together in 2012. (For a moment, I thought it was a sign of the Mayan apocalypse. A chance I was willing to take!) I am so jealous that she is often traveling the world and her most recent trip was to Iceland!
While she originally promised to bring me a sheep, I guess it was for the best that she just picked up yarn since we’re not allowed to have pets in my building.
The yarn she brought me is, of course, made in Iceland. I can’t read anything on the label besides the fact that it’s Lopi Alafosslopi which is a bulky weight 100% Icelandic wool. It’s delicious. It’s wooly and thick and has that tough, warm, scratchy feeling that makes wool so incredible. It’s basically like a big ball of sheep.
Since hearing about Allison’s adventures eating delicious yogurt and seeing beautiful landscapes of Iceland, I’m dying to go there. I’d looove to visit the Textile Museum and maybe hang out with some sheep. Honestly, doing those two things would be a perfect vacation for me. I would be quite content. I’ve heard about some Icelandic knitting cruises. I dream of one day being able to afford a knit-centric vacation.
Thanks for the yarn, Allison! You’re the best! I don’t know what to make with it just but I’m just enjoying feeling it.
Have you ever been to Iceland? What’s your dream knitcation?
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Tags: Iceland, lopi, textile museum, travel, wool, yarn
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YAY ICELANDIC WOOL. I haven’t yet been to Iceland, but my parents went last year and I convinced them to bring me back some yarn and it’s since been turned into the body of a sweater. (The sleeves are on their ways.)
I’m using that same grey as a contrast for an Odinn sweater. Lopi is so wonderful to work with! (Not to mention how practical… you rarely have to wash it and it lasts forever. Win!)
My parents and my sister went to Iceland last year, but they didn’t take me. They saw plenty of sheep, but I didn’t get sheep or wool. I think my trip to Iceland would be very different from theirs, although they did get to go inside a dormant volcano.