{"id":7421,"date":"2022-01-08T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2022-02-01T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:54:44","slug":"gunvors-sirwal-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/gunvors-sirwal-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunvor’s Sirwal pants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And they are done. My largest spindle spun project so far, the Sirwal snow shoveling pants that used to be common in the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains. I call them Gunvor’s Sirwal pants from the sheep that gave me the wool. Since my 16-year-old has dibs on snow shoveling for pocket money I may use the pants for outdoor yoga and for walking down to the lake for my daily bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A while ago I bought Irene Waggener’s beautiful book Keepers of the sheep<\/a> and reviewed it on the blog<\/a>. One of the most striking patterns was the Sirwal pants, a pair of black and white striped pants that the shepherds used to knit while herding the sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A patternless pattern<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the book Irene describes her first meeting with the pants in a museum, how she learned to knit them from her host Muah n’A\u00eft Tabatoot’s demonstration. Irene has in turn written down the oral description and demonstration for the book. As all of the projects in the book the pattern is based on working with what you have in the form of wool, yarn, needles and body size rather than a detailed knitting instruction. I really liked the idea and think it would be a good challenge for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n