København Garncrawl

Thanks to Google Translate, I've learned that yarn crawl in Danish is Garncrawl.  

On a mini-break to Copenhagen (København) in early March, I undertook my very own mini garncrawl.  Look how happy being surrounded by yarn makes me!

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I've got a bit of history with Danish yarn shops.  

Here I am, on the left, standing in front of Sommerfuglen during our first trip to this beautiful city back in 2018.  I got my husband, Geoff, to take my picture but decided to go shopping later in the holiday when I could return by myself to peruse the yarn at leisure.  Then my Mum fell ill and we returned home early.  I never did venture inside of the shop.  

Thankfully, that situation was rectified during our recent trip.  See the picture on the right!

Having concentrated on city centre sights during our first visit to Copenhagen, we took a short train trip to Roskilde, the historic former capital, to see the Cathedral and the Viking Ship Museum.

These ancient socks on display at The Viking Museum date from the 10th century and are made using the technique of Nålebinding, the one-needled forerunner of knitting.  Geoff's hat, knitted just before this holiday, made a perfect Viking helmet as we dressed up in the museum's immersive long-ship experience!

Roskilde also afforded some yarn related window shopping as Strik & Design was sadly closed on the day of our visit.  I contented myself admiring the wool from afar and enjoyed the pretty display of knitting inspired ceramics by Else Rasmussen, realising I might need to have some of these in my life in future. 

Back in the city, continuing my garncrawl, we walked to Rosenborg Castle via another of  Copenhagen's gems, Uldstedet.

After asking Geoff to take this photo, we continued sightseeing together.  

I didn't want our inner holiday personas to become like this....

Lewis Chess Pieces on sale at the Viking Ship Museum!

So I returned to Uldstedet a little later, by myself.  

Whilst the window display is enticing, the inside of the shop is a yarn lover's paradise.

It wasn't long 'til I was trying on the shop samples and availing myself of their mirror for a selfie!  

Isn't the Sparkling Cardigan lovely?

I decided the cardigan would be a perfect Copenhagen garncrawl souvenir.

The pattern is a shop exclusive, designed by Danish brand Gepardgarn.  It's only sold in conjunction with the yarn, sumptuous wool/silk in a solid shade combined with a contrasting fluffy cloud of mohair.  All I had to do was pick my colours.  What a choice!

With help from the knitting fairies, as the in-store assistants are known, I settled on Light Sea Green and Rain Storm.

This cute project bag was a lovely freebie!

I started knitting my cardigan on March 12th, almost as soon as I got home from holiday. 

 

Progress was steady then I sabotaged my own knitting by not reading the notes I'd carefully made about the length of the first sleeve.  Consequently, I finished the second sleeve only to find it was much too short and I had to undo the whole piece from the armhole shaping and re-knit it to match the first!

And today I was able to wear this special cardigan for the first time.  

It's light and airy but cosy as pie.

Perfect for the climate here in North East Scotland where it can be cloudy, rainy, cool and warm within the same five minutes!  That describes most of our summer so I expect to get a lot of wear out of it.

And as for that armful of yarn in the first picture, well that also came home with me from my garncrawl and I have a plan in mind for it in my knitting future too!