Blod, svette og tårer / Blood, sweat and tears

Det har vært litt av en uke, og den har mest handlet om å sy. Samboeren min hadde et litt røft møte med motorsaga. Heldigvis fikk han ingen dype og alvorlige sår, men dog... Han endte opp med 26 sting på leggen. Heldigvis trengte ikke jeg stå for den sømmen. Det tror jeg vi skal være glade for med tanke på hvordan jeg taklet sømarbeid senere i uka. Jeg var endelig kommet dit at jeg skulle montere genseren. Hvor vanskelig kan egentlig montering være? Kjempevanskelig!! Jeg har strevd og strevd, og gjort feil som var så latterlige at jeg ikke tør å fortelle om dem engang, i et forsøk på å beholde litt ære, stolthet og en tanke selvtillit. Jeg hadde lyst til å kaste hele genseren dit pepper’n gror, men fant ut at det kunne bli litt vanskelig å forklare det på bloggen. Så jeg bet tenna sammen, monterte på et vis, og fikk kamuflert de verste feilene. Så nå er jeg endelig ferdig med genseren. Jippi!

Her kan du lese om mønsteret. Garnet er Rauma 3tr. Strikkegarn. Jeg fulgte mønsteret, men forandret kantene.


It’s been quite a week, and it’s been mostly about sewing. My partner had a rough meeting with his chainsaw. Fortunately, he didn’t get any deep or serious cuts, but you know… a chainsaw is a chainsaw after all… He ended up with 26 stitches on his leg. Luckily, I was not the one who had to do the sewing. I think we should be very happy about that, especially considering how my sewing during this week turned out. I finally got to the stage where I was going to sew the sweater together and finish it. How hard can that be? Really, really hard!! I’ve worked and worked, and made mistakes that are so incredibly ridiculous that I don’t dare to tell you about them, in an attempt to keep some of my pride, my honour and a little bit of self-esteem. At one point I just wanted to throw the sweater as far away as I possible could. But I found that it would be a bit difficult to explain that on the blog. So I made one final attempt and got the sweater together, and I was also able to somehow camouflage the worst mistakes. So, I’ve finished the sweater – hooray!

Here you can read about the pattern. I’ve used a yarn called Rauma 3tr. Strikkegarn. I’ve followed the pattern, except for making the edges different.


Under feriestrikkingen hadde jeg også en liten assistent som nøye sjekket kvaliteten på garnet. Det ble så absolutt godkjent :-)

When I was knitting during my holiday, I had a small assistant that checked out the quality of the yarn. It did definitively pass the test :-)