Lobolita

The yarn I’m using for Tim’s raglan is from a time long ago in a galaxy far, far away. Specifically, it’s Sandnes Garn Peer Gynt, 100% pure wool manufactured in Norway. Only, this isn’t Peer Gynt as we know it. This was manufactured sometime in the early Eighties and exported to Iceland, where it was purchased by my Navy Commander uncle and mailed to my grandmother, who kept it in mothproof bags until last year, when she gave it to me. Truly, this is venerable yarn.

Venerable, and scratchy as heck. Those Norwegians must have had skin like alligators in the Eighties. Also, it’s worsted weight, while the modern Peer Gynt is sportweight. Needless to say, this will be a strictly-outer-layer sweater. But the sweater should last several decades. The wrapper assures me that it is mothproof, and this stuff should wear like iron.