1. What is the one knitting accessory you could not live without?
If I had to pick one, it would be scrap yarn. I use it for all sorts of things – markers, provisional cast-on, …and best of all, if you have a lot of it, it’s no longer scrap but new material for a new project.
2. If you’re heading on vacation, do you take knitting with you? If so, how much and what type of project?
Yes. On my last vacation I took a stole. On the one before that, a pair of socks. To the cottage I tend to take a lot, and usually get a lot done as well.
3. Where have you traveled to that you’d consider your favorite spot?
Impossible to say. I do always feel a sense of homecoming in Bohuslän and love the islands and the sea.
I also think the Rhine and Mosel valleys are wonderful, and the Biergarten in München.
4. What is your favorite knitting book at the moment? Do you own it?
I like the kinds that show you lots of different stitches – like the Harmony Guides. I own the Harmony Guide to Aran Stitches, but there are many others.
I also like A Gathering of Lace, by Meg Swanson, but I don’t own that.
5. Do you listen to podcasts? Which is your favorite(s)?
Nope.
6. If you could only knit with 1 color for the rest of your life, what color would that be?
I don’t imagine this will ever happen….. but I guess I would pick something neutral, like cream colour.
7. If you were far into a project and then noticed a mistake near the beginning what would you do?
It depends on what the mistake was. I don’t tend to leave mistakes, but drop stitches and fix them. I’m rather good at fixing things, both in lace and cable work without frogging everything. But hypothetically, if I found a mistake near the beginning of a large afghan or something, and I didn’t find it until near the end, I would leave it, because if I hadn’t found it earlier, it was probably not a big mistake.
8. Where is the most unusual spot you’ve ever knit?
On a ferry in the Bosphorus.
