Flere varianter/ Variations

Her er andre varianter av pulsvarmerene. De er strikket i Noro Kureyon. De lange har jeg lagt opp 35 m til og de korte har jeg lagt opp 25 og bare laget 9 riller. Disse to tilsammen tok to nøster garn.

Here are some variations on my wristwarmer pattern. Theese are knitted in Noro Kureyon. The long ones i cast on 35 stitches and the short ones I cast on 25 stitches and only knitted 9 ridges. Theese two used 100g of Noro Kureyon.

Mandags Mønster/ Monday Pattern

Pulsvarmere i Noro Silk Garden.
Garn: 50 g Noro Silk Garden jeg har brukt farge 225
Pinne: 4 mm lang pinner eller rundpinne
Legg opp 30 m og strikk fram og tilbake hele tiden bytt mellom rette og vrange omganger slik:
Pinne 1: r
Pinne 2: vr
Pinne 3: r

Gjenta dette til du har 10 "riller" (3 vr omg pr rille) Avslutt med en "rettrille", fell av. Sy sammen som bildet viser slik at det blir hull til tommelen.

Wristwarmers in Noro Silk Garden
Yarn: 50 gr of Noro Silk Garden I used color 225
Needles: 4 mm straight pair or circulars

Cast on 30 stitches. Knit rows as follows:

Row 1: knit
Row 2: purl
Row 3: knit

Repeat these rows until you have 10 "tripple purl" repeats on the right side of the piece. Finish with a "knit tripple" repeat. Bind of. Sew together as the picture shows so that you leave a hole for the thumb.

Hemmelig venn August/ Secret pal august

Se på denne praktfulle hemmelig venn gaven som kom i posten i dag! Et nøste Noro silk garden i grønt, blått, lilla og rosa, så flott! Fra nøstet hang det et vakkert smykke med et rødt hjerte. Det er i bruk allerede! Det var en pakke med metall sommerfugler fra Panduro også så her er det bare å slippe kreativiteten løs og lage perle og andre sommerfugler. Så var det denne lille søte andungen med de store øynene... Gjett om jeg falt for han! Jeg samler jo på ender av badeand typen og denne var midt i blinken. Tuusen takk min hemmelige venn. Hintet sa at du solgte Noro, kan det være Miann tro?

Look at this beautifull packet that arrived in the post today. One ball of Noro silk garden in a wonderfull blue green pink lilac colorway! From the skein hung a wonderfull necklace, a hart. Then there is a packet of metall butterflies that I can craft with and the lovely little duck. And I collect ducks. Someone has really hit many of my favourites here! Thank you my secret pal! The hint was that you can buy Noro from here, is it Miann?

Full time study, full spindle

So long since I posted here, I'm not gone, just gone for master studies. I started on my master degree in nursing two weeks ago and it does take a lot of time. They didn't start easy either, groups and assignments and lectures right from day 2. Well now that week 2 is over I'm starting to get the rythm in this study. It's not like I havn't gotten any crafts done at the same time. I take the train to Oslo 2-3 times a week and it takes 1 hour each way. I have started two hats in pink and I'm working on a poncho. As for spinning, look at my Mini Bosworth in Cherry. It's full of wool mohair mix. I spun it during the last two days and plyed it Andean on the run. The little spindle was filled to the brim. The yarn kept slipping of at the end. But the little tornado managed. I got it plyed and could take it of the spindle so I can fill it again today. Love spinning...

Hemmelig venn pakke HB

Nå har jeg fått hemmelig venn pakken fra juli på Hobbyboden. Posten rotet bort den første så¨hun måtte sende meg ny. (Håper det ikke skjer med de pakkene jeg sender ut... ) La meg slippe posttrollet. Vel jeg fikk en nydelig pakke, sort og rødt hifa garn hele to 100g hespler! Så fikk jeg te og jentungen min fikk et troll og begge ungane fikk sjokolade. Tror garnet skal prøves til nålebinding, eller kanskje jeg skal veve et bånd. Det er i hvertfall et nydelig garn! Tusen takk til Olos71 som har sendt den.

Look at this lovely secret pal gift I got. it's two 100g skeins of Hifa wool yarn, a troll, candy and tea. I'm looking forward to using the yarn for my viking adventures...

Nålebinding votter/ mittens

This is todays project. I made a pair of mittens with the nålebinding technique. This is the first time I have made anything by this technique and I'm very happy. The needle in the middle is the nålebinding needle I made from some ebony (I think) I had from my knife handle. The yarn is Uruguay yarn form handpainted. com. The technique is suprisingly fast and the pattern is beautiful. I requires me to actually watch where I put the needle not like most of the knitting I do, that I can do with my eyes shut.

Jeg har lært en ny teknikk. Disse vottene har jeg laget med nålebinding. Jeg fant mange metoder på nettet og etter litt prøving og feiling klarte jeg å lage disse i dag. Nålen har jeg også laget selv av biter etter knivskaft laging. Det er en morsom teknikk som er forbausende rask. Den krever riktignok at jeg ser på arbeidet i motsetning til strikking, men mønsteret er vakkert og det er gøy med noe som de har laget helt siden viking tiden. Garnet er Uruguai garn fra handpainted. com.

This weeks spinning and plying

Heres a picture of the yarn I made this week. The bottom one is a bumpy single made of the Mills end fiber I got in the recycle swap from Melyssa, it was nice to spin, fluffy and easy to draft. I have trouble spinning the thikness I want this went really thin with bumps from the fiber. The white one is merino from Spinnvilt, its 2 ply quite even and about fingering weight. The mulitcolored is more of the BFL from lauriegator, the pink (looking lilac in the foto) is a combi of the glitzy fiber that came with my new Bosworth mini and some pink BFL. On the spindles I have some blue BFL and more of the white merino.

Secret Pal and Baby booties

Look at this great packet I got from my secret pal on the Spinwitch yahoo group. It is recycle themed, the bag is knitted of recycled sari silk, the fiber is mills end recycled fiber. Then there is some soap, a candle, cotton yarn, mickey key keeper and chocolate. Thanks Melyssa I love it all!

Here is a picture of the baby booties I have made a pattern to. The yarn is my BFL spin. I have plyed a lot of yarn these last few days, pictures soon. I'm planning to make a wrist distaff too. Do you know a place with a tutorial? Please tell me in the comments. I'm stalking my postman I have a Bosworth mini on the way and a secret pal packet too...

Tutorial Stich markers / Hvordan lage maskemarkører

I have been looking for a tutorial on how to make theese so I finally made my own. Hope it's understandable...
Jeg har lenge vært på utkikk etter hvordan slike maskemarkører lages. Så har jeg eksperimentert litt selv og fant ut at jeg måtte lage en bruksanvisning selv. Håper den er forståelig...

What do you need: A stick to wind the metal around, the diameter should be the one you want the markers to have. Plyers, beads and the metal jewllery pins or metall thread you wind a knot in the end. I'm using amethyst beads in theese pictures.
Hva trenger du: En pinne til a snurre metall tråden rundt, diameteren bestemmer hviken diameter markørene får. En tang, perler, jeg har brukt ametyst perler jeg hadde liggende og til slutt metall pinnene. De brukes vanligvis til smykkelaging og fås kjøpt der smykke utstyr selges. Du kan bruke vanlig metall tråd som du bøyer løkke på i enden.

1. First you put the bead on the pin
1. Først putter du perlen på metall pinnen.

2. Then you twist the pin around the stick
2. Så bøyer du metallpinnen rundt trepinnen.

3. You then take the plyers and twist the pin around itself to lock in place

3. Du tvinner så metall tråden rundt seg selv med tangen for å låse den på plass.

4. Then you carefully pull the stich marker off the stick and it sould look something like this:

4. Så drar du maskemarkøren forsiktig av trepinnen og den burde se noenlunde slik ut:

You can klick on the pictures to make them bigger.

Du kan klikke på bildene for å gjøre dem større.

Andean Plying

Look at me :) I'm so happy! Today I learned how to ply andean style. It's actually easy and fun. I've plyed three singles so far. This is a picture of the third plying. I don't know what I'm going to make from this yarn yet. Any suggestions? Maybe baby booties. The fibre is the same from an earlier post, BFL from Lauriegator at Etsy.

Inspired by nature KAL

I did get inspired by nature on my trip too. The cabin was about 1000 meters over sea level and the mountains are so beatiful: heres some pictures to be inspired about

Back from summer holiday tilbake fra ferie

First:, I haven't knitted much on the ms3 stole. I found it difficult to consentrate in a cabin full of kids, go figure... Second: I did have a lot of knitting time as I didn't do any driving and well you can always knit when looking after kids that play (most times anyways) as long as the knitting dosn't require any consentration. I brought 4 balls of cotton yarn Brilla, sock yarn and needles.

The first hat was ready after a long trip to the cabin on sunday (train and car) the second and third the next day and the little one on tuesday.

Then I hit a knitting drought, too tired or just tired of knitting hats. So I started knitting socks for the lovely little lady that has the smallest hat.

On sunday we were driving again and the last ball of yarn has become 3/4 of a fifth hat before it was too dark for knitting. And I vrote down the pattern this time so it's coming as soon as I find the notebook in my baggage that takes up most of my living room right now.

On monday I was actually afraid the yarn would not last the whole trip so I found a LYS and bought two balls of sock yarn and two balls of Svale in a green, they were on sale so I just had to have them. The green svale became a cabled hat , pics later (and maybe a pattern too).

On saturday I was in Arendal and found finnish yarn on sale, had to have it, its Ruskovilla 50 % wool and 50% silk and so soft, wish they had more left...

Inspired by nature KAL

I've been taking pictures with the tought of Inspired by nature KAL. I love the patterns and colors in theese. They are all taken in my local area less than 1 km from my home. I don't know what I'll knit yet but I'm getting ideas. Any suggestions? What would you knit when looking at theese pictures?

MS 3 day 7

I have finally knitted chart b too :) I really like how the pattern grows and changes with the rows. So looking forward to seeing it finished. The stole seems to become somwhere around 40-50 cm wide now. Thats blocked. The pattern requires concentration. I can't do more than a couple of rows in a row. But thats fine I have 50 rounds to do in a week it's just about right.

MS3 Day 1

Now I'm off to bed. Heres what I managed today. Chart A done! With three lifelines and green beads! Loving the pattern!

MS3 pattern

I have downloaded the pattern Jippii!!! It took some tinkering the printer but I now have the pattern on paper and have knitted til round 20! I chose the clear beads because of the swirly patterns and because of the white/black theme...

And now I just changed my mind and have knitted till row 25 with green beads...

MS 3 Beads 2

Thanks for all the comments! It's really helping. Greens are more visible and clear more neutral, I guess I just have to wait untill i see where in the stole the beads are going... Right now I'm leaning towards the green ones though...

MS3 Swatch

Here's finally a picture of my MS3 swatch. The yarn is the Zephyr in the color sage and needles size 3,5 mm knitpics. I really love the way the swatch turned out and I've got compliments on how it looks and feels (as if that was my doing, just love the zephyr)

MS3 Beads

I'm trying to decide what beads to use. The dark green ones you see to the right in my swach or the translucent ones you don't quite see at the upper right corner. What do you think? Please help me decide! Make a comment.

Moomin world

This is where I've been with my family the last week. Well not at moomin world the whole time only a day. but it was wonderfull and I'm recomending it to anyone with kids under the age of 7!