--------- Cardigan
for Dad from Maske for maske - ungdom og voksne by Mette Handberg. click here for a picture. -----------
Country Socks from Folk Socks in Nature Spun sportweight (Snow and Charcoal) :: 90% complete (problem is: I ran out of charcoal yarn) ----------
P.I.P.S.s ::
(projects in planning stages) Finish writing
up the pattern for the Cotton Sport cabled sweater and post
it.
Hva er dette for noe?
This is a weblog. It's mine. It tends to be about knitting
with occasional ramblings about my experience living in Norway.
(Sometimes it's the other way 'round.) Want to know more? Read the
faq's! :O)
1. What's your favorite piece of clothing that you currently own?I've been looking for the right
white, long sleeved, collared, button-in-the-front shirt for simply years and I found it yesterday at
Claire.dk. It rained yesterday and seems rather on the coolish side
today, so maybe I'll wear it tonight! (Hopefully we'll be doing something tonight...)
2. What piece of clothing do you most want to acquire? Well, until yesterday it was that shirt.
3. What piece of clothing can you not bring yourself to get rid of? Why? Oh, there
are truckloads of stuff in my closet I can't get rid of. Actually, no, I'm getting better about this. I'm determined
to be able to put clean clothes away without it being a hassle, so I've gotten rid of a bunch of stuff that
I just simply don't wear. But I do have clothes that I'm sentimentally attached to (souvenir t-shirts being the most common example) that I can't toss. And we
probably shouldn't even start about the stuff I've got stored at my Mom's house... sheesh.
4. What piece of clothing do you look your best in? Well, I'm told I look best in red. And I probably
look better in things that are fitted, rather than my inclination to wear things that are a bit too large.
Ya know, I'm not sure I have something that fits into both those categories. Okay. That'll be my "most want to acquire."
5. What has been your biggest fashion accident?I am very pleased to say that I can't think of anything at the moment.
Tho I am certain I've had plenty.
Did I mention that my wonderful father was making me a spinning wheel? Well, it's
HERE! We
had it shipped while we were there visiting and it has arrived safely.
(It's not completely put together, but I have the booklet and will sit down and figure it out soon. Which
will surely be likely to help me figure out how to actually use the thing, right?)
Through the 12th of September, you can win free text ads for your blog at
the eatonweb portal if you go edit
your listing. Cool!
And I want to say "Hi!" to a couple of new (to me anyway) knit bloggers... Kim (a fellow misplaced American)
Katrina (who's gonna make a log cabin knitted quilt out of her Barbie knit magic tubes)
and Jenn who apparently got the Jenny Murray reference! ;o)
I'm reading Anna Karenina. I am. It's marvelous, but rather slow going. Long. Ask Trina.
And I'm really trying to read Dinas bok. Has anyone heard of the film I am Dina outside of Norway?
It looks to have some incredibly beautiful scenery from the north of Norway.
One of the reasons I wanted to read it in Norwegian is because the dialogue is written in the dialect of the North, Sigurd's dialect. (Ka e det? rather than Hva er det? for example.)
I saw an English copy of the book recently and I realize why I'm having comprehension trouble in Norwegian.
I am Dina who sees the sled with people on it roll end over end down
the steep slope. First I think it's me who is lying there. .... It must be late in the fall. Late for what? I'm missing a horse.
Not exactly easy to follow... But I'm working on it.
I picked up a few shorter novels (in English) at a bookstore in Oslo last week for a bit of a break from those two and just finished
Roxanna Slade by
a North Carolinian author Reynolds Price, which was
a marvelous story. Truly. Anybody know this one? Or that author?
A. That's a lot. 2. That's 13 more than
are on the knitbloggers webring list. Which makes me doubt mine.
But more importantly,
I see that Judy's weblog is no more. The journal is
there and I just want to say I hope she doesn't go away completely. Speaking of which, I'm already missing Shetha.
I had some weird dreams this morning when I back asleep after the alarm clock rang. One
was in a tall building, waiting for an elevator. I looked around and saw a yarn shop
that I had never noticed before. I went in and the lady was speaking what may have
been French, but that's not important right now. The main thing was that I saw some of the Icelandic wool that
I have in my stash but it was LABELED! (When I bought the stuff it didn't have a label on it, so I know nothing about it.) So I pulled a table
and a rickety chair over, climbed up to see onto the high shelf and wrote down everything I could
find out about that yarn. Ah, it was a wonderful dream.... Squib will understand.
Wow! My mittens right there on the cover of the Cast On Accessories 2002!
The red ones right under where it says "ACC"! Wow! This shows it pays to peek at the knit list every now and then!
Thanks Helene!!
4- 2 dl. (3/4 cup or 1/2 pint) jelly glasses, dishwashered or hand washed in hot soapy water
Okay, okay. I had never laid eyes on a red currant until we moved into this house and realized there was a large
bush with thousands of red berries (looking suspiciously like the berries from Hi-Ho! Cherry-O)
and since I recollect Claire mentioning Janet Fraser Murray smelling of currant jam, I had to try my hand at making something of them. After all, who wouldn't want to be like Jenny?
According to the Joy of Cooking, they are scarce but available in the US from mid-June through August and I know you're aching to make some
Cumberland sauce for your to accompany your cold goose or tongue. (Or ham, which sounds a bit more... appetizing.)
It's unnecessary to remove the berries from the stems, but do
rinse them to remove bugs and debris. Place the berries and water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil, reduce temperature and simmer in the water until they
shrink a bit and lose some of their color, but not until they turn to mush. Pour the berries into a cheesecloth (I use a clean kitchen towel) and let it drain off into a bowl without
molesting the berries in the cloth. Measure the juice, it should be around 7 dl (3 cups).
Warm jelly glasses (and lids) in a 100C (200F) oven. Return juice to clean saucepan
and
boil again. Stir in the sugar and let boil without a lid for 4-5 minutes.
Remove the scummy stuff that accumulates at the surface with a spoon, and pour jelly into the warm glasses. Screw
lids on right away.
If you've never made jelly, you might want to give it the "jelly test" before pouring it over into the glasses
: Pour a little of the jelly onto a plate and let it stand there until it's developed a "skin". Then pull a spoon handle through the
jelly making a little "road". If the surrounding jelly runs back into the road, boil for a few more minutes. If it doesn't, it's ready.
Warning: Do not attempt to taste juice before adding sugar if you require your tastebuds for the remainder of the day.
Talk about sour? Whoa.
Beth wanted more info and Shetha asked a good question about the tvåändsstickning. I made
these mittens from Homespun, Handknit
using the technique. Briefly (and I may go into this more later) it involves using both ends of a ball of yarn and knitting one stitch with one strand, the next from the other. Naturally
making a very dense fabric, because of the way the strands are carried on the back. It does lead to a rather tangled mess, especially
if you carry the yarn consistently; picking up the next strand under (or over) the last each time. I saw a Swedish, I don't know what it was,
but it was in Swedish and there was an elderly lady talking and knitting, and the ball of yarn she was using had what I assumed
to be an extra needle poked through it and it was hanging from her work and spinning around. I tried that when I made the mittens and it was
very effective, just a matter of knitting a while until the strands were twisted together then letting them unwind for a while and starting again.
If I find out anything more during our trip to Sweden today, I'll let you know!
I've seen kits by the Danish designer Vivian Høxbro in Husfliden in Oslo and came across her English web site yesterday which
has patterns for nisser, bamser (teddy bears), a hat/basket combo and a domino knit bag. Her kits
are available at yarn expressions and at onefineyarn.com
and, last but not least, at pinnsvinndesign.no. The latest design is inspired by a, in my opinion, revolting type of
licorice candy. I don't think I will ever get used to the licorice candy in this country. There's even a salt licorice chewing gum. Double bleh. But the sweater is kinda cute!
I peeked into Strikk deg varm (Knit yourself warm) at the bookstore a couple of days ago
and saw that these gloves,
these socks and these mittens were knitted using the Swedish technique of knitting from both ends of
a ball of yarn called "tvåändsstickning". The front of the book said the special yarn for tvåändsstickning was available from
Wålstedts Textilverkstad and I just wanted to share with you guys that you can order a catalogue for this specially spun wool
(it has something to do with the S-twist and the Z-twist) here for 80 Swedish kronor,
including yarn samples and color cards. :O)
Red currant jelly
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