"You guys really live it up with strawberries!"
At least, that was the comment of a friend who saw this promotional photo of us with our new book – the strawberry book with its beautiful retro cover, which my husband made, me with my strawberry jacket, and my husband with his inconspicuous pink shirt covered in strawberries. Next to me, by the way, is our strawberry plant, and I haven't even shown the new strawberry vase in the kitchen yet. In that sense – yes, we're really living it up with strawberries!
The idea for our new strawberry book actually came from a birthday present for a special friend who has been working in a strawberry greenhouse in Iceland for years. As a food blogger, what could be more natural for me than to create a photo book with some Icelandic strawberry recipes for her birthday?
I knitted her a strawberry hat to go with the photo book, and we gave her our presents at the birthday party.
And because I liked the strawberry hat so much, I immediately knitted myself one . Here we are, at Þingvallavatn, overlooking the mountains, the blue lake in front of us, and the blue sky above us.
And because I liked my hat so much, I also knitted myself a cardigan with a strawberry pattern to go with it.
Now I can drive around Iceland with my strawberry jacket and it keeps me nice and warm!
The strawberry jacket, however, is unique. I based it on the pattern for a Léttlopi sweater, knitting it top down, but I knitted the sweater open as a jacket. I started with 108 stitches at a wide neckline and then increased according to the pattern, knitting in a total of 12 strawberries. I knitted the waistband and the solid-colored pieces with needle size 5.0, and the pattern with needle size 5.5. Then I sewed on a red two-way zipper (length 65 cm).
If anyone wants to try it, in one form or another, this is the (homemade and adapted) strawberry pattern I used as a template.
By the way, I think the strawberry jacket also looked great on my husband when he was putting the finishing touches to the book and the great cover here in our Iceland house!
With that in mind—we live strawberries! Knitted, too!
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