Loes um binding!

Loes um binding!
18 ára gamla Loes Vanheake úr Belgia er skiftisnæmingur í Føroyum og fer næstu vikurnar at hugleiða um lívið í Føroyum. Hesin bloggurin snýr seg tann deiliga binding.
29.03.2014 - 19:00

When me and the other AFS students were in Copenhagen, waiting on the airplane to Føroyar, there was a woman sitting across of us, knitting a sweater. We whispered to each other: “Look, that woman is knitting so fast! She must definitely be Faroese!” While she was knitting, she talked to her husband, looked after her children and watched a bit of television. Definitely Faroese.

 

I said to myself that by the end of the year I have to be as good at knitting as she was. I promised my friends in Belgium that I would knit each of them a sweater, a cap and socks. Realistic, I know.

 

So, some days after I arrived I went in Navia to buy the wool for my first socks of the many that would follow! I got that a bit wrong… Oh those frustrations I had! The wool that was tangled all the time, finding the fifth knitting stick, or when I had to take the whole thing off because of one little mistake in the beginning (the worst feeling ever). I am definitely not the most perfectionistic person in the world, but one thing I learned about knitting in Føroyar is that you have to be perfectionistic.

When I finished my socks after two months I took a little pause, but soon I had the courage to start knitting my very first sweater of the many that would follow! I even knitted in one evening the ‘body part’ of it! Maybe it went so fast because I used needle 20mm and chunky wool, but still, it was a good thing for my ‘knitting-confidence’.

When it was finished and I wore it for school, someone told me it could be a Guðrun&Guðrun sweater! That made me so confident that two weeks ago, i started my very first “stjørnutroyggja”. And this one goes surprisingly good so far! I may not be able to knit those thousand sweaters, caps and socks. But knitting just like the woman in the airport, yep, I’m almost there!

 

Got to love those knitting Faroese woman. 

 
 

 

 

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