Sólarlag is part of my Icelandic Yarn Club 3 to which it is exclusive for 9 months. After that it will be released to the general public as single PDF.

Sólarlag is an ingenious and colorful cowl inspired by a pair of Icelandic mittens in the Textile Museum of Blönduós. The mittens are knitted in stranded knitting and feature vertical stripes with an eight-petal rose motif on the hand. I reinterpreted them as a cowl using Mosaic knitting on a garter stitch background. I ́m not aware that the technique was used in older days in Iceland but I think that, combined with a plain contrasting color, it valorizes variegated yarns.
Sólarlag means sunset in Iceland and the cowl has its name from the hand dyed Icelandic wool I have used to knit the sample.

Size: one size. Gauge

Yarn: lace or light fingering
Yardage used:
MC: approx. 225 m / 246 yds
CC (without the pompom): approx: 180 m / 187 yds

Wool used in sample
MC: Þingborg Einband: new wool, 100% high quality Icelandic wool (mostly lambswool), light fingering weight, 1 ply, 50-55 g skein = 250 m / 273 yds, natural white
CC: Einband from Ístex, new wool, lace/light fingering weight, 1 ply, 50 g skein 250 m / 273 yds, hand-dyed in Iceland with acid dyes by María from Hófsvík.
Needle: 4 mm / US 6 cicular needle and double- pointed needles (for the I-cord) or size to obtain the gauge.
4 mm / US G-6 crochet for provisional CO.

Notions: darning needle, stitch marker, safety pin, pompom maker or alike.