My current knitting project

My new shoulder warmer

I want to show you my current knitting project today: a "shoulder warmer."

Somehow, I often feel cold, especially when I'm tired. But not that cold, not completely cold, just a little. A slight chill, so to speak. A real Icelandic sweater ( lopapeysa ) is too warm for me then. But I still need something.

After seeing a knitted hood with a scarf in Iceland that I found very cozy, I thought I could knit something like that myself... So I came up with the idea of ​​knitting a "shoulder warmer," essentially a turtleneck with a round yoke and then finished with a border. A short poncho, so to speak.

As a model, I tried to depict a typical Icelandic landmark, namely the tower of Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík.

Here you can see my first attempt, which was recently finished.

My shoulder warmer isn't quite perfect yet; there are a few things I'd like to do differently next time. But overall, I'm very satisfied – and I find my shoulder warmer very comfortable. And nice and warm!

Here we did a photo session in front of Hallgrímskirkja, capturing the original and the fake in one shot, so to speak. As you can see, I had a lot of fun taking these photos!

Here is an overview of our photos.

[Translated from here.]