Vivja

Knitting
February 2020
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
13 stitches = 2 inches
in stockinette stitch
US 4 - 3.5 mm
656 - 684 yards (600 - 625 m)
length 72” / 183 cm; width 12” / 30 cm
English
This pattern is available for kr.70.00 NOK buy it now

Vivja is a scarf with lace and nupps. It’s knitted in a single piece from the bottom up. The pattern assumes that you can read charts and have some experience knitting lace. A link is provided for 2 techniques to work nupps. The pattern has been test-knitted.

Vivja is part of my new series Along the Whale Road, which highlights yarns from places around the North Atlantic where the Vikings settled. The sample scarf used woollen-spun lamb’s wool from Norway.

The “whale road” is a Norse kenning for the sea.

The name “Vivja” can be found on a runestone in Jæren, Norway. The inscription reads “Jeg rister runer inn for Vivja, kjæresten” (I write runes for Vivja, beloved).

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