Inga Snöflinga Goes to Karlstad

Last week I went on a trip to Karlstad. Those hours on the train are perfect for knitting.

And a mitten-knitting is the perfect project to bring on a train.

Even though Karlstad is a place where the sun always shines, the mitten I was making had a rather cold and frosty look – covered in snowflakes.

Inga Snöflinga

The yarn I´m using is the same old Cherry Tree Hill – a "potluck" this time.

In Karlstad I stayed at Karlstad Town hotel, where – incidentally – the Beatles also stayed in 1963, the first time they toured Sweden.

But of course I wasn´t so childish that I went and took a picture of the the door to the room where they slept all those years ago.

Ooops.

Well, a fan´s gotta do, what a fan´s gotta do...

I did meet someone else that I also admire a lot. Barbro of Barbro´s knitting.

She was busy knitting socks. 

But she also let me feel some of the fibres that she´s using for spinning, like cashmere and baby yak.

And two skeins of Shibuiknits merino sock yarn – it´s always interesting to see a yarn that you´ve only heard about before.

Plus, I came home with this:

It´s the last third of a skein of Wollmeise that Barbro had used for making two lace shawls – and there is still enough left for another small shawl for me! Thank you, Barbro.

I kept patting it all the way home on the train from Karlstad.

Comments

[Gunilla T]

Supersnygga vantar!

[Marina]

I would have taken the picture too ;-) Sometimes I wish I hadn't been so responsible & had run away and become a groupie!

[Lydia]

Love the mittens, and your photo of the door. Any Beatles fan would have done the same thing.
I really enjoyed the photos on Barbro's site, the knitting was beautiful. I'm wishing I was bi-lingual!

[Gina]

Love that mitten! You do lovely work. And that hotel looks magnificent ~ and of course I too would have to check out the room the Beatles stayed in. :)

[Randi]

I will copy what everyone else said above: Lovely mitten and enjoyed the hotel door photo!