{"id":237,"date":"2012-04-17T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=237"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:39:14","slug":"more-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/04\/more-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"More Iceland!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And to wrap up my fantastical Icelandic adventures, here are some more photos from the land of wonder, in no particular order.<\/p>\n

Early on in the trip, I was lucky to teach classes at Storkurinn<\/a>, a beautiful yarn shop in Reykjavik. Unfortunately I forgot my camera but was glad to return for photos. Such pretty displays!<\/p>\n

\"Storkurinn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They had copies of my book on display.<\/p>\n

\"Books<\/a><\/p>\n

During some down time, Ragga showed off her lovely handknit socks while spinning.<\/p>\n

\"Ragga<\/a><\/p>\n

We headed to Alafoss where the mill used to be located.<\/p>\n

\"Alafoss\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They have one of the best vans ever:<\/p>\n

\"Alafoss<\/a><\/p>\n

Then all the international knitters arrived. Here they are listening attentively to Ragga. She is probably warning them not to fall into the middle of the earth. This is the site where the North American tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plates meet. They are shifting apart and leaving a giant hole in the earth.<\/p>\n

\"Knitters<\/a><\/p>\n

These people are ignoring the somewhat hidden signs that say not to step near the edge.<\/p>\n

\"These<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Do<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the site of the first parliament ever.<\/p>\n

\"Allthingy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We took a trip down and saw a fantastically clear pool surrounded by moss.<\/p>\n

\"Pool<\/a><\/p>\n

People toss coins into the pool and make a wish. Someone could make a lot of money diving in there and collecting them all, but then all their wishes would probably never come true.<\/p>\n

\"Glittery<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course we stopped by a yarn shop that was connected to a cafe with the most delicious mushroom soup I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

\"Yarn<\/a><\/p>\n

The nearby town is yarn bombing the area. Here we have a knitted dude.<\/p>\n

\"Yarn<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course his wife is a knitter with needles and all.<\/p>\n

\"Knitter<\/a><\/p>\n

We saw lots of pregnant ewes. Some of them had triplets and were HUGE! They were skiddish about our presence because they’re protective of their unborn lambs.<\/p>\n

\"Pregnant<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a ram. Also known as one of the big papas. Isn’t he regal?<\/p>\n

\"Ram\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This pretty horse loooooved attention, jumping in front of the camera and pushing away his other horse friends.<\/p>\n

\"Pretty<\/a><\/p>\n

This poor horse has an awesome ‘do. I joked that next time I’d bring a perm kit.<\/p>\n

\"Whoa\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then we headed toward Geysir, the geysir for which all other geysirs are named. The water there is HOT!<\/p>\n

\"HOT\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The steam amidst the landscape was stunning.<\/p>\n

\"Ominous\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is Little Geysir bubbling.<\/p>\n

\"Little<\/a><\/p>\n

Geysir and Little Geyser are not that active anymore, but their neighbor Strokkur spouts off every few minutes. I got to catch it in action!<\/p>\n

\"Strokkur\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow, that’s a lot of water.<\/p>\n

\"Strokkur\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then we headed to Gullfoss, the waterfall with the most volume of water in Europe. It was so massive, I couldn’t get it all in my frame.<\/p>\n

\"Gullfoss\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then we headed to Isafjordur in the western fjords. It was gorgeous, but cloudy. I was too busy running about that I didn’t take very many pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Isafjordur\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ragga<\/a> taught an awesome class on traditional Icelandic lopi sweater knitting. Here is the mini sweater I finished and steeked in class!<\/p>\n

\"mini<\/a><\/p>\n

On our last day in Isafjordur, we got stuck in a pretty intense snow storm which resulted in flight delays.<\/p>\n

\"snow<\/a><\/p>\n

So we spent our time knitting in the local knit cafe that serves booze! Natalie got some work done on her Wayward socks from the February sock club shipment.<\/p>\n

\"wayward\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think she likes the color red. Notice the matching red nails with her handknit sweater.<\/p>\n

\"natalie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Iceland is a pretty small country, so the local news heard about knitters stranded in Isafjordur and came to videotape and interview us. I think the camera man was surprised when we turned our own cameras on him!<\/p>\n

\"interviewer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Iceland is such a wonderful country. I highly recommend the trip if you can manage it. So much knitterly and sheepy goodness with the most amazing scenery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And to wrap up my fantastical Icelandic adventures, here are some more photos from the land of wonder, in no particular order. Early on in the trip, I was lucky to teach classes at Storkurinn, a beautiful yarn shop in Reykjavik. Unfortunately I forgot my camera but was glad to return for photos. Such pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}