Finished Projects

Improvised colorwork sweater

  • Pattern: Improvising a bottom up sweater
  • Yarn: Lana Rara Rare Swiss Wool – a Sport weight woolen yarn from endangered Swiss sheep breeds (2/3): Saaser Mutten, Spiegelschaf, Bündner Oberländerschaf, Engadinerschaf. Plus mulesing free merino wool (1/3).
  • Needles: Lykke

Slava mittens

Autumnal Pair-fect Socks

Knitting in Progress

Topaz sweater

  • Pattern: Topaz by Katrine Birkenwasser, published in JEWELS
  • Yarn: Tukuwool Fingering, colorways Anga 05 (dark brown), Selja H23 (light green) and Lehto H24 (darker green)
  • Needles:  3.5 mm (US 4) Addi bamboo interchangeable circular needles

Surf Socks for my boyfriend

  • Pattern: Top-down stockinette socks with a slip stitch heel flap & gusset and rounded toe.
  • Yarn: dunkelgrün classic sock, colorway: vintage surf
  • Needles:  2.5 mm (US 1½) Lykke fixed circulars (magic loop)

Lopapeysa for my boyfriend

  • Pattern: Improvised with help from the “Create your own lopapeysa” guide by Auður Björt Skúladóttir.
  • Yarn: Léttlopi, colorways 9423 (lagoon heather), 9432 (grape heather), 9427 (rust heather), 1411 (sun yellow), and 1404 (glacier blue heather).
  • Needles:  4.0 mm (US 6) Lykke interchangeable needles.

Fabric designs

Here you can find the fabric designs I showed you in this episode: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/dunkelgrun

Epilogue

Check out this thread on ravelry. In post #1, Casey is listing several links to instagram profiles which have posts and stories/highlights worth reading.

An article on the subject of white privilege that I found really helpful can be found on Huffington Post.