Soon summer vacation. I am really looking forward to it. As usual I have a lot of projects and plans. I bet I don't finish half of it, but it is fun to plan projects as well. We are going away on a little holiday next week. I'm bringing a couple of projects, even though we're not going to be gone for more than three-four days. Amazing how much you can knit on a beach. Specially when you have babysitters to keep the children company.
Jeg har endelig klart å gjøre ferdig min første Jan. Det tok litt lengre tid, fordi tulla ikke ville ha tunika, men kjole. Måtte ut og kjøpe mer garn. Hun ble fornøyd til slutt. Nå mangler det kun stryke den og et bånd. Den andre Jan skal jeg gjøre ferdig i dag. Fikk nemlig kjøpt mer garn i går. Den skal også bli kjole.
I have finally managed to finish my first Jan. It took longer time than I thought, because my girl didn't want a tunic, but a dress. I had to go out and buy more yarn. She was happy with the dress at least. Now I only have to iron it and put a belt on it. The other Jan I hope to finish today. Had to buy more yarn and got it yesterday. It's going to be a dress as well.Jeg er med på fargealongen, og juni er rosa. Jeg er veldig glad i rosa, så i tillegg til Jan i rosa, strikker jeg en tunika til meg selv. Ble inspirert på strikkecafé av kattepus. http://kattepus.blogdrive.com/ Hun strikker også en sånn tunika og den ble så fin. http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/no/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=100&d_id=24&lang=no
I am a part of the Colorkal, and June is pink. I love pink, so additional to the Jan in pink, I am knitting a tunic for me. I was inspired by kattepus at the local S'nB. http://kattepus.blogdrive.com/ She also knits this tunic and it is really nice. http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/no/visoppskrift.php?d_nr=100&d_id=24&lang=no
I bought yarn yesterday. Ended up with a couple of more skeins than I was supposed too, but it usually ends up with some skeins extra. I was a good girl yesterday and bought only two skeins extra. Mauds garn had a special offer on Opal cotton I couldn't refuse, one skein for 39, NOK, or about 5 euro.
I have also startet on a pair of pants for my little boy. Knitting in Mor Aase wool yarn with the pattern of knit 3 and purl 2 to get a better shape.




I have had the pattern of Jan a long time, actually almost a year, but I haven't knitted one yet. Nowadays a lot of people at Hobbyboden have started to knit one, so I was inspired to knit one as well. I'm going to knit mine in brown cotton and in a multicolored cotton yarn I bought in France. 
I have started to knit the Monkey-socks from Knitty. They were not hard to knit and it didn't take long before I hade memorized the pattern. I'm starting on sock number two tonight. I'm using Opal.
I have finished knitting part 3 of the Yarnmystery. Very exciting. I have absolutely no clue of what I'm knitting. Part 4 is coming June the 1st. at 19.00 o'clock. I'm looking forward to it.
I have knitted a couple of limegreen socks to my son from the yarn I got from my secret pal in May at Hobbyboden. They are my contribution to Colour-along too. May is green.
I have signed up to resolve the Yarn mystery through Hobbyboden. Liv-Toril is the organizer. First part was to find yarn and needles. Yesterday we got part two. We were supposed to knit a square. I have done that. Have no idea what so ever of what I'm knitting, but I'm waiting with excitement for part three to be expected at May 27th at 19.00 o'clock.
I have crocheted a bit further on my ripply. It does not move fast forward, but I'm half way almost. Now I've run out of yarn, so I need to do a bit of yarn shopping today. The Ripply is now 87 cm long. It's supposed to be 2 m, so it's a bit to go. 


I have to do something else while crocheting the Ripply. So I have started knitting a sweater in Mor Aase, pure wool. It's a birthday present for someone who has birthday very soon, so I don't have much time, but I think I'm going to make it.
I really had no intention what so ever to start crocheting a ripple, but here I go. I haven't bought yarn for the whole thing, but just enough for the weekend;) My husband actually liked the ripple and drove me around today to find a store which sold the yarn. I'm using Mor Aase wool. Soft and delicate. This is one of my longterm projects. I have been very eager to start, but I know myself and soon the progress is going to be slower. My plan is to finish it before the winterseason comes again.
I have knitted a dress for my daughter's Babyborn doll. She was a bit disappointed that it wasn't a real 17th of May-dress, that means a Norwegian folk dress. Stopped by a yarn store and bought pattern for doll clothes. Found a dress which didn't have that much pattern on it. 

The Exhibitionist-kal gave me a push to finish projects that were in danger to be UFO's. I have knitted a bit on this hat from Nøstebarn and now it's only 16 rows to go. It's ready for next season. 
I have knitted a Calorimetry in the Noro yarn I had left from my Klaralund. This is 30th birthday present. Very pleased with it, and hope the receiver is going to as happy as I am. 





The last two challenges in the Exhibitionis along, was to take a picture of something strange. I haven't done that one yet. It's quite hard actually. The other challenge was to take a pciture of everything we are knitting, our WIP's in other words. It took some time to find everything. I found out that I have way too much yarn in the living room. I have a box which fits under the corner table for my WIP's. It wasn't supposed to be full, but look here what was in the box. It was a bit more than I thought.
At the moment I'm knitting my fourth Branching out scarf. I knit this one in the same yarn as my third, Gedifra easy soft. I bought two skeins, but it was enough with one skein for a scarf. The first one in Gedifra easy soft was a gift, but since I had another skein, I'm knitting a scarf for me.
I have got a thing for scarf, obviously. I'm knitting an Argosy scarf as well. The yarn is Noro kureyon. 
I'm also knitting a devil-hat from Nøstebarn. It's for my daughter. She wanted an orange hat. I'm wondering if she's going to use it, even though she picked the color, she is a very pink girl.
I signed up for a GAAA-along at Hobbyboden, but I'm not keeping up with the speed. Actually I haven't finished one single piece. The pattern demands my full concentration, and I can't handle that in the evening. Really need to have an eye on the tv and that combination of tv watching and reading the pattern for GAAA-pieces is not a good combination. I really want a carpet for my basement, so I'm going to pull myself together and knit the afghan, with time.
Now I'm back from my Easter holiday. I have knitted a bit during my holiday. My daughter got a jacket knitted with Opal. Have to sew loose ends and fix some buttons, but soon ... It didn't take too much time to knit, and I used raglan decrease to avoid a lot of making up. Don't like that a lot.

I knitted a Branching out-scarf during Easter. I used Juvel, a wool yarn. The scarf turned out okay, but I rather knit the scarf in a thinner yarn, so I did. I knitted one in Alpaca wool. That scarf turned out a lot better. Now I'm knitting one in Gedifra easy soft. It's getting better and better. The last scarf is thin and really great. And yes, I like knitting this scarf. Branching out in Juvel is my contribution for April in the One Gift A Month along and the white on is my contribution for March in the same along. I think some people will find a Branching out scarf from me under the Christmas tree this year. I think I'm going to knit one for me as well. 
I have finished both Eris and Klaralund. Really satisfied with them, and I have worn both one time before Spring arrived. I am thinking about knitting a Klaralund for someone for Christmas. It was an easy sweater to knit, thick yarn and easy pattern. I liked knitting Eris as well, but it was a bit more work than the Klaralund. I have more leftover yarn from both, especially from Klaralund. The leftovers from Klaralund I think is going into a sweater for my son, a hat for me and maybe I knit a miniKlaralund for a present for a little girl I know. 
I have also started on a Hey Mickey skirt for my daughter. She picked the yarn herself. It was bought in France and is cotton yarn. Very soft and great to knit with. I have fixed a little on the pattern, because I couldn't stand the idea of binding all those ends together.