Meet Ragga Eiríksdóttir. She knits.
She gives kids a lift!
She’s glamorous.
She runs in the Reykjavik Marathon!
She knows where to eat,
and where to find the most charming, comfortable cafes for knitting – with the best coffee.
She has goat friends who are as curious and playful as kittens.
She generously shares her knowledge of everything Icelandic, including the special properties of the native sheeps’s fleece.
She has a very creative method of choosing patterns and colors for Lopapeysa.
She is always quick with a smile!
She discovers and makes friends with the knitter who made our sweaters!
She knows all about Icelandic knitting, including the curious two thumbed mittens.
Curiouser and curiouser!
If you need a reason to visit Seattle this October, you can meet Ragga yourself at the not-to-be missed event, the fantastic Nordic Heritage Museum’s Nordic Knitting Conference, October 5 – 7, 2012
This year the theme is Nordic Mittens!
Ragga is a great teacher, you’ll learn so much from her! Cool Icelandic techniques, interesting history, creative solutions to problems you might encounter. You will love her! Your only problem will be choosing which of her classes to take…
Skagafjörður mittens are decorated with intricate and colorful cross-stitch…so unusual and so beautiful! I’m dying to take that one.
Chevron Mittens, a touch of Icelandic lace…lovely! Learn many variations of chevron patterns and learn a special edge technique.
The Little Techie Mitt- many tricky details, learned in one tiny mitten! Quick and fun!
And the one dear to my heart…The Two Thumbed Mitten. Who knew? Great history, clever clever folk those Icelanders! You’ll learn 2 different thumb constructions and much much more!
You simply must meet Ragga, if I wasn’t going to be teaching in at Interweave Knitting Lab New Hampshire I would SO BE THERE!
Who else is teaching? Nordic Knitting Wizards that’s who. Annemor Sundbø, imagine! Latvian Mitten experts Sandy De Master and Mary Germain, Susanna Hansson will teach Lapland’s Rovaniemi techniques. Mary Scott Huff the stranded knitting genius-live and in person- wow!!! Carol Rhoades teaches mittens with Danish traveling stitches and more!!!!
Take it from Gudrun and I, you don’t want to miss your chance taking a class with Ragga. Here we all are, after an amazing afternoon at Iceland’s Blue Lagoon. Of course, you can always find Ragga here at Knitting Iceland.
what a wonderful, wonderful post! ragga seems to be a most amazing person, who wouldn’t want to spend time hanging out with her?! <3 🙂
Love. This.
Love that last photo especially and the funny two thumbed mittens. Hello Ragga, nice to meet you!
Very fun !! Thanks for posting !
I totally agree with your assessment of Ragga. She is all that and so much more. I have participated in one of her tours and plan on doing more.
This is so awesome and amazing! What a trip! Congrats on it all!
My family and I just returned from a wonderful cruise to Iceland and the highlight of the trip was a personal tour with Ragga. She’s a wonderful person and we had a great time meeting and being with her for the day. Ragga is everything you said.
And Iceland was even more beautiful than I expected.
I’m looking forward to seeing her again at the Conference! Thanks for your great post and pictures Mary Jane!
I loved seeing all these Ragga photos! I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon with her when she was here in San Francisco. Some day soon I will visit Iceland and sit amongst the goats, with Ragga!!
MJ! You look younger every single time I see you on here! I love your friend’s gray sweater, I immediately wanted to cast on for it.
Glad to see you’re happy and loving life!