A Norwegian knitting enthusiast with a monthly theme for projects
So little time for knitting these days, but a weekend trip to London with my mother and my daughters made room for a few small projects! London is less than two hours away from Oslo (by plane!) but when you include train/bus to get to and from airports, it is plenty of time for knitting!…
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As mentioned I had finished my first pattern that I wanted to prepare for publishing on Ravelry; now the hat called “Norwegian Summer” has been through test knitting and revised and is for sale! First I had one version in bulky yarn (showed here), this pattern is written for a thinner yarn of sports type…
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The last few mornings here in Oslo has shown temperatures below zero. After a much too busy week it was easy to convince most members of the family to spend the first part of the day walking in the woods. The reward was crisp cold air, sheets of thin ice on all puddles (to jump on and break!)…
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I have written down a pattern of the hat I made this summer: Norwegian Summer. I chose to make it in a thinner yarn, the soft 100% wool Chickadee from Quince & Co which is of the sport type. It does not itch and has some wonderful colours. I had some skeins in white/green/blue/yellow which was…
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This is a hat I made a year ago; it was a very trendy hat that you could buy for a small fortune or you could make one much cheaper yourself. I went for the last alternative and my local yarn store provided me with a free, pattern (a photocopy of a handwritten instruction) and yarn.…
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Norwegian summer can be everything; warm, cold, windy, sunny, rainy, cloudy… Our vacation on an island off the coast has had everything, even within some days the variation have been amazing! I feel this to be fresh and amusing, although we would wish for some more sun & warm weather to be able to swimming…
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One of my girls was in want of a summer hat, and it is always good to have a stash project. A summer hat in cotton yarn is always fun; it is easy to improvise and adjust size and patterns as you go. The green yarn is PT Petunia from Rauma yarn, the white one…
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The yellow yarn I bought in Paris from Madelinetosh has a remarkable colour and when I started to knit a beret with cables/lace pattern, it reminded me of one of my favourite flowers; the Tussilago (although the colour is called Daffodil!). Tussilago farfara (commonly know as Hestehov in Norwegian, coltsfoot in English) is one of the first flowers…
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