Le Hat

Et voilà! :o)

Coincidences

I used to have another blog, which I liked very much in the beginning: I liked the URL, and I also liked its title. I held it sort of regularly for almost exaclty 3 years, to this day.

It's pretty funny actually. I started it on the 23rd of March 2008, a few days after my first arrival to this country (Iceland, if you still didn't get that), and made the final decision of interrupting it (I think "for ever and ever") yesterday, a.i, le anniversary date of its beginning.

I also realized yesterday I must have booked a flight almost on the anniversary of that first arrival. Both times I landed on the 20th.. Now ain't that strange. And both times, the weather was just as shitty upon arrival :o), except this time I knew what was to be expected.

Well well well...

That last blog accompanied me quite a lot of places, from France to New-Zealand, going through Iceland (the longest period), Canada- Newfoundland (hello Christine and co- wave wave) (hello Bill! wave-wave as well) and Québec, Guatemala, Switzerland and a few other places.

BUT, it's time to move on, I feel like being more creative, so there.
On this note, I finished my hat last night, it's really cool but the light sucks too much to take a nice photo now, so it'll have to wait.

I have a new project, another létt-lopi vest , but I want to improvise a design, maybe with the help of an excellent book I have borrowed from the not less excellent Reykjavik library, by (surprisingly) a French woman who sports the name of Hélène Magnusson. This is the book cover, and this is her blog. I'm jealous! :o)

And last but not least: Good news of the day: my friend Iceland Alice just had anbaby niece called Lucie :o)
Hail, hail the new baby!!! :o)

Hahaaaa

One (at least, I) cannot be in Iceland more than two days without buying any of the fabulous Icelandic wool, aka lopi.

It is declined in several types, létt-lopi álafoss lopi, bulky lopi and so on...

Here is the icelandic wool website. If you check it out properly, you'll see there are free patterns available in the menu on the left, yay! :o)

Having stupidly forgotten to bring something to cover my head with, I was forced to go to the wool shop (anyone who says it sounds like the lamest excuse... :P ) and so I bought a nice ball of red álafoss lopi to knit myself a hat..

It is supposed to be with cables, which is fine, except I can't count and I don't have a pattern, so I wildly improvised. So far it fits, but there are 4 stitches missing to make it symmetrical.

Well too bad, it'll be my... *oh hell, what's that japanese word expressing a mistake in a piece of artwork put in there on purpose by the artist as a personal touch and so as not to offend the gods?*
Yeah, that one... :o)

Missa Votiva

Ok, so last night I arrived back in iceland, and pretty much immediately went to an extremely good concert proposed by the also extremely good choir Söngsveitin Fílharmónía who performed the Missa Votiva by Jan Dismas Zelenka

I had never heard it before, and it's a real blast.

Here is an excerpt from the beginning of it I found on youtube, performed by the
COLLEGIUM VOCALE 1704 from Prague, which I'm also discovering right now, with great pleasure...

Spring

Today is the first official day of Spring, in continental Europe at least.
I have come back to Iceland after 8 months to find the country (so far) little changed and under the snow.The weather, however, is beautiful (NOW!), sun is shining through my window. Yes yes, I hear you!!! I know I'm sitting at the computer, but I've just been walking for a few hours, during which I was trying to contemplate what I could knit next.

I started a travel blog almost exactly 3 years ago when I first came here, and although I like it and it reminds me of good things and times, some events in my life made me slack a little in regards to keeping it updated.

But I like to write, and recently I've been thinking of starting a knitting blog: I really started to knit here in Iceland about 2 years ago, and have been doing it and liking it increasingly over time.

So here it is, the official beginning of my knitting blog, in which I intend to post pictures of what I've been doing so far, and other stuff knitting or craft related I find interesting.

If you feel like making any comments, please feel free.
Emma