Holidays

Time for rest and to regain one's strength. Leif and I started the day with breakfast in a café. Lovely! Here's my latest project - a crocheted bag. The pattern was in Hendes verden nr. 33 2010.

I couldn't get hold of the Danish yarn so I've used Catania instead and as my yarn was thinner I put on some extra rows here and there. I wasn't up to change colour every row on my handles either, so my stripes are 20 cm each. I just made one handle and of course I made it too long. I had forgotten that knitted and crocheted handles GROW.

British socks and birthdays

I was given some Regia Nation Sock Yarn in a swap in the spring by Camilla. Britain is one of my favourite countries and now I have a pair of socks in the British colours.

My birthday is in August and so are the birthdays of two of my grandchildren. Here is the other August girl.

I got some goodies. Vickevira yarn bought from Elses bod from my daughter and she had also crocheted a wonderful red bag to me.

Hey it's good to be back home again!

Look at this gloomy woman. Yes, she´s got fever and should be in bed, but she´s on her way to Norway and despite the heat she is wrapped in a Centipede scarf designed by Malin Flodin and the yarn is from Garnpaletten. Skeikampen was a good, quiet and beautiful place to recover in and after a day in bed I was out and about again.

I was afraid I should meet a bear but the only animals I came across were cows and sheep. Sometimes they came too close to my liking.

Here's the man who went on a walking tour in the mountains. This is what he looks like after seven hours of walking. Tired and pleased.

There was so much to see and photograph on our way down to the Geiranger fjord.

Time for a cappuccino in Lillehammer, wearing my new net-shawl.

We were met by a tremendous heat when we came back to Falkenberg, so I certainly don't need to put something warm around my shoulders but I want to show you........

.........a shawl in cotton. It should have been crocheted in mohair yarn and looks gorgeous in the book Sköna sjalar by Lena Blidell. My result is not so good and the shape is ugly.

........a shawl in wool, Heavens hand. Wow, that yarn is fabulous and the blue colour is so extremely beautiful! I'm rather pleased with the result. Anna's Shoulder Warmer will always remind me of Geiranger and mountains covered with snow.

Can't stop knitting and crocheting

I never need days off from knitting and crocheting. On our way to Norway I came down with fever and wasn't able to produce as much as I would have liked. I got well and finished crocheting my net-shawl. The yarn was a present from Carin. When I sat on the bench crocheting a man with two small sons were passing by and he said to his boys: - Now the Yes-bench has turned into the Knitting-bench!
Cute! He is excused that he didn't see that I was CROCHETING. I have already worn the shawl when visiting Lillehammer.

We drove a whole day to see the beautiful Geiranger and it was worth the while. I finished Anna's Shoulder Warmer.

When your husband stops at every corner to take pictures it's good to have a hobby!

Summer at last!

What could be better to start your holidays with than knitting with your friends? Ingegerd has crocheted this beautiful blanket with granny squares and she is thinking of making it even larger. I love it. It's a blues in blue.

Kicki has many shawls and they're all incredibly beautiful. She loves to compose with colours.

Carin is also extremely accomplished and as she is a crafts teacher she's started her holidays too.

She's making a cardigan of granny squares. I'm looking forward to see it on!

I got yarn and a pattern from Camilla to make a shawl with love knots. Love knots are not easy to make and I've tried and tried to read the pattern, but failed to understand how to make them.

Carin who is a very good pedagogue showed me and at first it looked just like a big tangle of yarn but after a while I could understand how it hung together. This is the result. There are blue tree pearls on the edging.

I've been in Granhammar with my husband, daughter and grandchildren. The studio was filled with the most wonderful yarn and I had a hard time deciding what to buy.

We didn't find all the animals we believed should be there, but we met Gustav the cat and we found some swings.

Sommarlovet började skönt med stickning och virkning i glada vänners lag. Ingegerd har virkat en underbar filt med mormorsrutor. Den är som en blues i blått. Hon funderar på att göra den ännu större. Kicki har gjort massor med underbara sjalar. Hon älskar att komponera ihop färger. Carin som är slöjdlärare gör otroligt fina saker. Just nu håller hon på med en mormorsrutekofta. Det blir spännande att se hur den blir. Den här gången lärde hon mig göra kärleksknutar. Först fattade jag inte hur trasslet hängde ihop, men efter ett tag gick det upp ett ljus. Jag fick ett sjalmönster av Camilla men lyckades inte klura ut hur man gör på egen hand. Nu är den blåa sjalen färdig och längst ut i kanten sitter blåa träpärlor.

Vi har varit med barn och barnbarn på utflykt till Granhammar. Det var rena garnhimlen i ateljén, så det var svårt att välja vad som skulle få följa med hem. Vi kunde inte se så många djur tyvärr men Katten Gustav hittade vi och gungor till dotterdottern.

Old stuff

I've seen granny squares here and there lately so I guess they are in fashion right now. Here's a dress and a cardigan I made some years ago. The sweater-pattern was in a Knit Simple magazine and the dress in a Sandnes pamphlet.

Jag har sett mormorsrytor här och där på stick-cafén och bloggar, så jag gissar att det är en inne-grej just nu. Jag ville bara visa en kofta och en klänning som jag virkade för några år sedan. Koftmönstret kommer från Knit Simple och klänningsmönstret från ett av Sandnes häften.

The Leftover Shawl

I crocheted a shawl with leftovers but hadn’t enough yarn, so I had to buy some more…
One of my daughters liked the shawl though, and brought it home.

Jag virkade en sjal i restgarner, men garnet tog slut slut så jag var tvungen att köpa mer...
Dottern J gillade sjalen och tog med den hem till sig!

Crocheted Shawl

Jag har virkat en enkel sjal av garn från en rea-låda.
I’ve crocheted a simple cotton-shawl from yarn that I found at a sale recently. It was easy to make and I needed that now while I’m studying, and have to concentrate on many things at the same time. I quite like it!

Ladybird Tape Measure

Svårt att förstå mönstret från loveknitting.se till denna nyckelpiga - och garnet räckte inte!
I bought this as a kit from loveknitting.se, and I like it, but the pattern was hard to understand and there wasn’t enough yarn!! Ugh!