Month: December 2016

With the winter break, I’ve been able to really make lots of progress on my knitting (and since I’m cat-sitting, there’s been a kitty to assist me)

So now, I have the trunk and the sleeves done! All I need to do now is join them and work the yoke. Hooray!

Well, I have completed stage one of the Frankenpeysur! That is to say, the trunk. I’ve finished knitting the trunk up to 40cm long. According to the pattern, this means now I have to knit the sleeves and then knit them in. Wooooo-hoo!

Since this practice peysa has been going well, I went ahead and ordered the lopi to make an actual lopapeysa.

I’m afraid I don’t have anything more exciting to update everybody on. We got a new couch, which I suppose is… sort of exciting?

I’ve been slowly collecting wool yarn for some undetermined special project that never ended up happening. I know I’ve been wanting to knit a lopapeysa for a while now, but I didn’t want to learn on lopi, the Icelandic sheep’s wool yarn, because it is pricey and I thought it’d be a waste to use to learn on.

But I took an accounting of my wool yarns, and discovered that I have enough to make a peysa (it isn’t a lopapeysa because it doesn’t use lopi) with my weird random assortment of wool yarns. So I decided to make this Frankenstein Peysa as practice, leading up to buying a bunch of lopi and making a proper lopapeysa.

I’ve been using this pattern and so far so good.

Without further ado, here is…the Frankenstein Peysur!!!!

As it exists thus far. I like that I’m using a lopapeysa pattern, but am making it with a random assortment of weird colored yarns. At least it is wool, thanks to my obsession with wool. TO BE CONTINUED…