Swedish Tomten

Although I have been knitting for a long time I first read about EZ only when I discovered knitting on the web. It took some years more before I really got curious about her and only this fall I read for the first time a book by her and I got hooked.... To give the background, I come from the Netherlands and all during my youth knitting was a very big thing and maybe that was the reason EZ was not very well known. During the 90s knitting virtually disappeared and only now it is coming back. In the meantime I moved to Sweden (where knitting never totally disappeared) and then a couple of years later I am here. Curious enough my real discovery came at the same time as Zimmermania started, so that was good timing. Since I live in Sweden now the Tomten seemed to be the most appropriate one to start with, and fitting too, since my two year old could do with another jacket.

So here it is my first real EZ item. I knitted yoked sweaters before but since these had patterns and not recipes I don’t count them, nice as they are.



This Tomten is knitted with Lorna’s Laces worsted in the colourway Embers. I like the way it came out. The way that the colours pooled was very symmetrical in the body and it gives it a bit of extra. I made the body longer than 40 ridges since I wanted more of a coat than a cardigan. I used some scrap yarn to have an attached I-cord along the front and the hood. As it happened the scrap yarn came from a “tomteluva” project for my eldest one. (Tomteluva = a very pointy gnome cap).



To finish, some photos of my tomtenisse wearing her Tomten. It is on the big side so that she can wear it for a long time but the hood is snug and she is really cuddly in it.



Now on to a bog-jacket for my 7-year old...