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!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Secret Pal 12 gift
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!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Longing for summer weather
Alt dette garnet er nå i kjelleren. This yarn is now in my basement stash.
Dette er min kurv i hjørnet, og nå er den ryddig og vi ser gulvet rundt.
This is my basket in the corner, and now you can see the floor around it.
Another weekly question from Secret Pal 12. What would you consider the perfect amount of stash? Hard question. My stash is about 12 kg and I feel that's the perfect amount for me, even though I always wish I had more yarn. I have a tendency to fill the living room with my stash. Erica challenged everybody to tidy their stash, and I chose to tidy the living room stash. Here are some before and after pictures. The skeins in the couch are now moved to my stash in the basement. The living room is tidy again, or ... Well, it was for some days, but it's almost a week since I took the pictures and now it's a bit of a mess again.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Oh, an award!
Blomstermamma gave me an award! That is so nice! Thank you very much! I have to give it away, and I think I'm going to give it to Babsy. She updates her blog often, and is creativ and produces a lot of nice things. Kattepus has to get the award. She is a great person and knits a lot of nice stuff. Marihøna gets it because she knits and crochet great hats all the time and takes a lot of nice pictures.
I Secret Pal 12 er det nok en gang ukens spørsmål. Som barn, hva gledet du deg mest til i forbindelse med sommerferien? Jeg tror jeg gledet meg mest til å ha hele dagen fri, bare leke, bade og være sammen med venner. Dessuten var det jo alltid stor stas å reise bort og bli kjent med nye mennesker.
Another question of the week from Secret Pal 12. As a kid, what did you look forward to most about summer vacation/break/holiday? I think I looked most forward to have the whole day off school and just play, take a swim and be with friends. It was always great fun to go away and get to know other people as well.
Jeg holder på med garnslanking, så jeg har hentet fram en del nøster uten merkelapp fra garnlageret mitt. Strikker lapper til et prosjekt som heter By:garn. Noen i Oslo skal dekorere statuer, lyktestolper og diverse med strikkete lapper. Et ypperlig prosjekt til å slanke garnlageret mitt.
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.
Vel, garnslanking eller ikke, når man tilfeldigvis går forbi Du store alpakka, må man innom. Og har man kommet innom, må man faktisk kjøpe et par nøster som ligger der og roper. Jeg syntes jeg klarte meg veldig bra, men noe måtte jeg kjøpe. 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.
Jeg har også fått hemmelig venn-pakke fra JSV på Hobbyforum. Fire, flotte nøster med Sisu-fantasy. Tusen, tusen takk for en flott pakke JSV.
I have also received a secret pal gift from JSV at Hobbyforum. Four, great skeins of Sisu Fantasy. Thank you very much, JSV.Saturday, June 14, 2008
New knitting books
1. What did you do ten years ago?
2. Mention five things on your to do-list today.
3. Snacks I like.
4. Things I would do if I was a millionaire.
This week Secret Pal 12 has a question every participants have to answer. What is your favourite summer drink? Well, peach ice tea or a good chablis wine.
Jeg har kjøpt meg to nye bøker, Kim Hargreaves' sine oppskriftsbøker. Nå må jeg bare få tid til å strikke meg noe derfra. Det er så mange fine oppskrifter jeg kunne tenkt meg å prøve.
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.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
A very special day
Monday, June 09, 2008
Hats for a good cause, June-socks and frogging
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 knit. I used Mor Aase babywool.
I have finished my socks for June. I used Opal again, and I think I got this yarn as a secret pal-gift, but I have forgotten who. Sorry, but the yarn is lovely and I love the colors.
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.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
This day six years ago
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.