I finished my son's sweater. Well, almost. I need to weave in threads and sew/iron on Lightning McQueen. My son has already seen it and wonder when it gets so cold he can wear it. I really hope it's going to be a long time before summer leaves. I want the summer weather to last a couple of weeks longer. Jeg er litt for flink til å melde meg på alonger, og meldte meg på to til. Den ene er Bruk boka di-alongen, og går ut på at man skal bruke en av strikkebøkene sine og strikke noe derfra. Helst skal man også bruke garn fra garnlageret sitt. Jeg fikk nylig boka Kæk og klassisk Børnestrik av Lene Holme Samsøe. Der var det masse fint og tulla vil omtrent ha alt der. Jeg startet på Pilespids, og nærmer meg slutten. Bruker også garn jeg har hadde, selv om det ble kjøpt i Kristiansand tidligere i ferien. 
I am too good joining alongs at the moment, and I signed up for two more. One of them is Use your book-along, and you're supposed to use one of your knitting books and knit something from it. The best is to use from your stash, but you're allowed to buy yarn. I resently bought Lene Holme Samsøe's book for children's knit. So many lovely patterns there, and my daughter wanted me to knit almost everything in the book for her. I started on a top called Pilespids, the tip of an arrow, and I'm soon finished with it. I use yarn I had, even though I bought it earlier this summer.
Den andre alongen jeg har meldt meg på er OL-strikk. Der skal du velge et nytt prosjekt og strikke det ferdig på tiden OL er. Jeg nølte veldig før jeg meldte meg på her, for jeg har veldig mange WIPs akkurat nå. Lysten tok overhånd og jeg så på det som en fin anledning til å få meg Lady February Sweater. Jeg bruker til og med garn jeg har i lageret mitt, Debbie Bliss sitt cotton angora.
The other along I joined is Olympic Knitting. You have to choose a new project and finish it within the time of the summer Olympics. I hesitated a bit before I joined, because I have a lot of WIP's at the moment. But I got too eager and looked at it as a really good opertunity to get me a Lady February Sweater. I am even using yarn from my stash, Debbie Bliss cotton angora.
Anohter weekly question from Secret Pal 12.

I joined a Teacher swap on Ravelry just before summer and today I picked up my gift at the post office. It was the greatest gift ever! I know I've said this before, but I mean it every time. Seriously! I got two skeins of Happy Feet yarn from Plymouth yarn, two skeins of Malabrigo yarn and a skein from Provence. I'm looking forward to search for the perfect patterns to the lovely yarn. And so much yarn! I also got some candy, some great stickers I can use at work and the kids got their cloth with Tinkerbell and Lightning McQueen. They loved it so much that it's dripping wet right now. They used it in the bathtub this evening. It's such a great package. Love it! A lot of thanks to trustcraztyideas!
I have also knitted on a sweater for my son. I have only the arms left. I knit raglan and use Jaeger Matchmaker.
Well, I don't know, but I have knitted a lot during vacation. I have been away on vacation for a week and I have knitted some. I finished my Dayflower camisole on Tuesday, but didn't steam it before today. It fits perfect, and I just can't wait to use it. 
I also knit on an order in Kid silk, which is a really time consuming work. And I got some knitting books in the mail. I ordered them through Interweave knits, when they had a big books sale. 
I was on a good roll with my Tour de France-contribution, but then I was starting the accent cord. I realized the camisole was too big. Now I have frogged the top again. This is really getting annoying. I've cast on fewer stitches this time and hope it will fit. I don't give up that easy. 
Here so far I have knitted after I started again.
I have had the time to knit a pair of tiny babysocks as well. This pair is for my nephew. I'll knit a pair of mittens and a scarf as well, I think. I have used Sisu, which I got as a secret pal gift from JSV. 

It's been a week with really great summerweather, sunny and hot. Great to get some sun for us living north. I have done some knitting in the sun. I'm starting increasing on this 


When I came home today, there was a packet waiting for me in my mailbox. What a great package! I couldn't wait before I ripped the paper off, so I didn't get any pictures of the package in the nice red wrapping-paper. My Secret Pal has bought med Knit picks-needles! She bought med hand-dyed, pink yarn! I love pink! And I got pattern, mags, something for the kids and candy! It's the greates ever! Thank you very much! You managed to put together the perfect package for me! Love it!
I have finally weaved in all threads on my Reasonably Hip by mightygoodyarn. You can download the pattern for free at Ravelry, but I can't figure out a way to link to that page. It was an easy and fast knit. The only hard thing about it, was to get a hold of something hard plastic thingy for the brim. I ended up bying a cheap cap and cut it open to get the brim. It worked well. I knitted in Lerke.
I'm still knitting hats for Irenesol's project. I browsed what feels like all hat-patterns at Ravelry and found a pattern I wanted to knit, but wasn't sure if it was my style. Well, somebody's style is it, so then I knit it for somebody. I knit in alpacca and the pattern is
So far the weather this summer has been everything but warm and sunny, but I'm an optimist and think the great summer weather is right around the corner. I want hot, long summerevenings like this. 
Dette er hjørnet i stua før rydding. This is my corner in the living room before cleaning.

I am on a yarn diet, so I have picked out some skeins from my stash without label on. I'm knitting squares for a project called City:yarn, after a concert project called City:larm. City:yarn is a project which some in Oslo are going to decorate statues, lamp posts and other things in public with knitted things. A great project to diet my stash.
Well, diet or no diet, when you accidentally walk by Du store alpakka, you just have to pop inside. And when you're first inside, you just have to buy something, like the skeins of yarn lying there, screaming your name. I think I did very well.
I have also received a secret pal gift from JSV at Hobbyforum. Four, great skeins of Sisu Fantasy. Thank you very much, JSV.
I have bought two new books, Kim Hargreaves' pattern books. Now I just have to find time to knit something from the two books. So many lovely pattern I want to try. 
This is the sixth attempt to make this top fit a seven year old, and that's not easy. I have frogged today and started again. But I won't give up, at least not yet.
Today is a very special day. Norway passed a new law about marriage today. Everyone in Norway now has the right to get married, adopt children and to IVF. And that means that gay and lesbians have the same right as heteroe sexual people. I think it's about time that everyone has the same rights. Another thing is that my six year old daughter learned to knit. Maybe not that historical, but big enough in our life. I'm so proud. 
I have knitted a couple of hats for Irenesol. She's going to give them to the cancerprogramme at the hospital in town. It's a good cause and I like to support good causes, so I knitted two hats for someone who loves bright colors. It was an easy and fun pattern to 
I have finished my 
I have to show you a couple of pictures from the mountains. I was in the mountains five days last week, and had the biggest luck with the weather. 

This day six years ago was it just as sunny and hot as today. I remember because my little daughter was born. Happy birthday, sweetheart! We celebrated the day at sea at my parents in law's boat. It has been a wonderful day. 



