I went on a field trip today to Ikea. Kathleen of Katyknits and my blogless friend Peggy came too. Kathleen is an Ikea expert and successfully steered Peggy and me through the store.
I was there to buy the Oppala chair in order to make the Sweet and Lowdown chair from the fall issue of Interweave.
Isn’t it pretty? Wouldn’t you want one?
I fell in love with this pattern when I saw it and was looking forward to making it, even though I don’t really have a spot in my house for it. I figured I would find a place.
Here is the problem: that friggin Oppala chair is uncomfortable – really uncomfortable. The metal bar that runs along the back hits you right across your shoulder blades.
It is only $20. But it sucks to sit in. Beautiful yet useless.
Thank God those swedish meatballs were everything Kathleen said they would be, or the trip would have been a bust!
purlingswine 
What about the sticks? You remember, the ones you nearly poked my eyes out with?? :) I had fun. Thanks.
Do you think this would affect shorter people? I’m 5’5″…maybe it wouldn’t hit my shoulder blades. Not that I have any reasonable expectation of actually finishing a project like that, but I was just wondering. :)
wait a sec did you knit that for the chair? its so beautiful, joey had that chair ( which by the way he thought was super comfortable) but it had an ugly red cover. you are a knitting genius ann!
Y’know, you can’t order the chair from the IKEA website anymore and a bunch of bloggers have expressed an interest in it. If you bought the chair and want to unload it, I bet it wouldn’t be a problem.
And I lurve the IKEA.