05-02-2016

Took me a while to get my head round the pattern (always slip stitches with the yarn facing you!) but after a couple of false starts, this was really easy and fun! I used two whole skeins of each colour to make a great big cosy wrap - it’s blocking right now and I cannot wait for it to dry. It is pretty big! Also, I used a size bigger needles (5.5mm) as I wanted to be sure it would be good and drapy.

It’s my “Norwegian heritage” project as my grandad’s grandad was from Norway. We’re not sure what exactly what his beginnings were, apart from that they were probably humble, but he made his way to the UK - via the court of the king of Sweden, though nobody quite knows what he was doing there - then set himself up as a tobacconist in Mayfair and made his fortune. He ended up as an all round upstanding citizen and pillar of the establishment. By my generation his main legacy was/is the family name, which regularly gets me mistaken for being Scandinavian - over the years I’ve had to disappoint several people who assumed I speak Danish and just started talking…

So anyway, quite apart from it being a lovely pattern, the name basically meant I HAD to knit it!

06-10-2019

Frogging this with much sadness, as I loved knitting it, it’s a great pattern, and it had much sentimental value. However, it turns out the boomerang shape/asymmetrical scarves in general are just not for me, and I haven’t been wearing it. Plus I had an irrational dislike of the rolling along the cast-off edge, which irritated me immensely every time I used it. When I picked the scarf up again the other day I discovered a moth hole and realised this wool is far too precious to be left in a cupboard being destroyed! So it is being re-wound for more careful storage, and at some point soon will be reincarnated in a form that gets the use it deserves.