Little Lopi Hoodie Class w/Ragga at StevenBe 

Class level: intermediate
Lopi hoodies were really popular in the seventies and continue to be so nowadays. In this class you’ll learn to knit a tiny hooded Lopi sweater plus you’ll get to steek it. The class contains all the techniques you’ll need to know to knit and steek a hooded
sweater of any size and of course Ragga’s expert tips on Lopi knitting and care of Lopi garments. Techniques covered: German twisted cast on, yoke shaping, stranded knitting with 2 colors, dividing yoke into body and sleeves, loose cast off, shaping
with symmetrical decreases. Participants receive written instructions and a pattern for a tiny top down Lopi sweater, plus an example of a pre existing pattern turned upside down. During the class Ragga tells the participants about the Icelandic knitting heritage and how Icelanders have truly been a nation of knitters for centuries. Techniques covered: German twisted cast on, invisible rib increases, working in the round with the magic loop method or DPN’s, combining sleeves and body for the yoke, stranded knitting of the yoke pattern, yarn management for stranded knitting, decreases in yoke pattern, loose cast off for neckline.

Supplies list:

50 yards of Lopi light in a light color and approx. 10 yards in a contrast
color (can also be provided by teacher for a 5USD material fee), US5 32” circular
needles (bring DPNs if you like them), a piece of scrap yarn, darning needle, crochet hook size C or D.

Your Instructor - Ragga Eriksdóttir:

(Ragga) is the nurse who couldn’t stop knitting. She worked for over a decade in sales and marketing in the pharma business and alongside as a sexuality educator, author and lecturer. Ragga has published a colourful knitting book, Prjóniprjón, and the first instructional knitting DVD in Icelandic. She developed her own yarn label, Nammi, meaning candy, hand dyed in vibrant colours. Ragga firmly beliefs that knowledge is the key to knitting-freedom, that’s why she is so dedicated to teaching all the little tricks and techniques in knitting. She now works as a knitting instructor, designer, author and the general manager of Knitting Iceland.