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Modern Daily Knitting Field Guides are little books that explore the big world of knitting, with patterns and stories to inspire the curious knitter.

Understandably, Iceland is really into yarn. You can find it in grocery stores. You can get it pretty much anywhere. Icelanders old and young wear their woolly lopapeysur—the ubiquitous yoke sweaters knitted with Lopi, the yarn made right there on the island—with a natural grace.

One wool company in Iceland, Istex, processes and spins 99 percent of the island’s wool, from more than 1,800 family- owned farms.

If you’re a knitter, Iceland gets you thinking. And it most cer- tainly gets you knitting with Icelandic yarn.

For this Field Guide, we zero in on a specific yarn: Léttlopi. It’s a worsted-weight wonder, airily spun using the two layers of the Icelandic sheep’s fleece.

To explore ways to use it, we turn to Mary Jane Mucklestone, a beloved teacher and designer who has traveled the world, knitting in hand, and visited pretty much every destination where knitting is celebrated.

Authors: Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne
Editor/Creative Director: Melanie Falick
Graphic Designer: Will Brady
Photographer: Elysa Weitala
Photostylist: Alessandra Mortola
Technical Editor: Sue McCain

Sample Knitters: Haley Parker, Nell Ziroli

published in March 2021 by Modern Knitting Media, LLC

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