The project is still going on. Now we are preparing the patterns and finalising the book. Pre orders will be available in July. Whoop! Our amazing photographer Baldur Kristjánsson has a few behind the scenes photos up on his site. Take a look!
More ink
One of the international superfriends, Cirilia Rose, lives in Seattle and knows EVERYTHING about ALL the best stuff the city has to offer. Needless to say I’m totally hooked on Seattle after staying there for VKL and with Cirilia the following week.
One of the things I did in Seattle was having my upper arm lady tattoo coloured in by the very talented artist Electric Alivia. And yes she’s super into Wonder Woman and taxidermy and other cool stuff. The result is SO BEAUTIFUL and I couldn’t be any happier with my goddess lady 🙂 If you like ink and are in Seattle you should definitely look her up. The studio she works at is also very nice, Artful Dodger Tattoo and Comics. Check it yo!
Jared at Vogue
Jared Flood is just awesome. Please go buy his yarn, it’s also awesome. My son saw this picture, taken in his BrooklynTweed booth at VKL, on Instagram and said we looked like siblings 🙂
Pro time
So knitters, this you need to know! Vogue Knitting hosts amazingly inspiring and fun knitting conferences in USA a few times each year. Just go there!!!
This time the paparazzi got into my class (lol). This was published in the Seattle Times the morning after. Here are more photos from the event. I had no idea the smiling bearded photographer was not from Vogue, so it was kind of funny to wake up to this superflattering photo of your’s truly. The headline is of course the funniest part since the women I’m teaching are all VERY seasoned and talented knitting goddesses and the photo was shot probably during the only 2 seconds we weren’t laughing for the whole duration of the class. Anna Dianich is of course the owner of Tolt Yarn and Wool in Carnation, WA (just go there too… ok? OK!), Karen Templer is the woman/whiz behind the tasteful and lovely Fringe Association blog and Mica Lorenzen who was just awesome in the class but I don’t know much more about her.
VK Live Seattle coming up
I’m so very excited about going to Seattle to teach at Vogue Knitting Live this coming March. I’ve only been to Seattle once before for a conference (in my previous pharma-marketing life) and caught the flu on the flight in. So I spent the whole week really, really sick in my hotel room. A very comfy room it was… but I had much rather explored this fun city.
If you haven’t been to a Vogue event before you should totally try to go… also if you have been to other Vogue events you’ll probably want to go anyway because they are so very awesome. I’m already counting the days!
The classes I’ll be teaching are: Iceland Upside Down (where you knit a tiny Lopi sweater top down), Speed Steeking, The Little Lopi Hoodie (a full day class), The Little Lopapeysa and Icelandic Chevron mittens. Plus I’ll be giving a lecture on the Icelandic knitting culture. Hope to see you there 🙂
Raggaknits 