Globetrotter garn / Yarn travelling far

Her er enda et garn jeg fikk fra Mary i Texas, Colinette Chrysalis Cotton (farge nr. 135 Sahara). Da jeg fikk garnet likte jeg fargene umiddelbart, men garnet i seg selv gjorde meg en smule forvirret. Uansett hvor hardt jeg tenkte klarte jeg ikke finne ut hva slags bruk dette garnet passet til. Så det har ligget og ligget. Da jeg lærte meg å hekle englemasker i sommer skjønte jeg plutselig at gåten var løst – jeg syns at dette garnet var som skapt for nettopp de maskene. Det har blitt et langreist prosjekt. Produsert i Wales, så til Mary i USA, så til Oslo for midlertidig lagring og foredling, og nå har det tatt hele den lange veien til Lakselv i Finnmark.



Here is another yarn I got from Mary in Texas, Colinette Chrysalis Cotton (colour # 135 Sahara). When I got the yarn I liked the colours immediately, but the yarn in itself made me a bit confused. No matter how hard I tried to think of something to use it for, I just couldn’t come up with anything. When I learned how to crochet love knots this summer, I realized I had solved the puzzle. I think this yarn is very suitable for just that kind of stitches. This project has travelled far. It was made in Wales, travelled to Mary in USA, then continued to Oslo for storing and crocheting, and then went all the way to the far north just a bit south of the North Cape.

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Jeg har lagt inn et reklamebanner på høyre side i bloggen. Jeg får ikke betalt for det, det er for en god sak. På Innfall og Påfunn bloggen fant jeg et innlegg om mikrolån. Dere husker kanskje at Fredsprisen 2006 ble utdelt til M. Yunus for hans arbeid med å gi mikrolån til fattige. Jeg syns det er en god ide, og da jeg gjennom blogginnlegget nevnt ovenfor lærte at man selv kan gjøre dette, syns jeg det kunne være en hyggelig førjulsgest til noen som har mindre enn meg selv. Kanskje det er noe for deg også?


On the right side on my blog, I’ve put a link for Kiva.org. I’m not getting paid to do it; it’s for a good cause. On a Norwegian blog I found a post about microcredit. You might remember that M. Yunus got the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with giving impoverished people microcredit to develop their business. I think this is a good idea, and was glad to hear that anyone can participate in giving microcredit to someone. I thought it could be I nice thing to do before Christmas. Maybe it is something for you to do too?

Lek med sari silke / Playing with sari silk

Jeg strikket et skjerf/sjal etter en oppskrift på Knitty.com. Det forsvant ut av huset til ei venninne før jeg fikk tatt bilde, men prosjektet gav mersmak. Denne gangen har jeg gjort det med en litt annen vri. På pinne nr. 10 la jeg opp 30 masker (for å lage det smalere enn i Knitty oppskriften, da det ble mer et avlangt sjal enn et skjerf). Jeg har brukt Fonty Kidopale, og strikket glattstrikk. I stedet for å strikke inn et tykkere garn, har jeg vevd inn Himalaya resirkulert sari silke i stedet. Jeg var ganske fornøyd med meg selv helt til jeg fant silketråder på gulvet. Nå er planen og knytte endene fast så jeg ikke får dratt dem ut når jeg bruker det. Jeg kommer til å strikke dette igjen, men tror jeg går tilbake til den opprinnelige versjonen i Knitty. Den er bare smartere rett og slett.



I knitted a scarf/stole from a pattern on Knitty.com. A friend got it before I got to photograph it, but I liked the project and decided to make one more, but with a twist. On knitting needles 10 mm, I cast on 30 stitches (to make it narrower than the one on Knitty, because I wanted more of a scarf than a stole). I’ve used Fonty Kidopale, and knitted stockinette stitches. In stead of knitting a chunkier yarn like in the Knitty pattern, I decided to weave in Himalayan Recycled sari silk instead. I was pretty pleased with myself until I started finding sari silk on my floor. Now my plan is to tie the sari silk ends together so that I can’t continue to accidently pull them out. I will knit another, but this time I’m going to knit the chunkier yarn into the scarf like it says in the Knitty pattern. It is obviously the smart thing to do.





Tidligere i år har jeg også lekt meg med sari silke. Det ble nåleputer, og jeg var åpenbart ikke i et minimalistisk humør. Men en ting kan i alle fall sies om dem: De er veldig funksjonelle. De velter ikke, og nålene forsvinner ikke inn i et stort intet.



Earlier this year I’ve also been playing around with recycled sari silk. That resulted in pin cushions, and obviously I was not in a minimalistic mood. But there’s one thing I can say about them: They are very functional. They don’t fall over, and the needles do not disappear into them never to be seen again.

Veske til lillesøster / Bag for my little sister

Tusen takk for alle hyggelige kommentarer i forrige innlegg! Fra verdens undergang er det igjen over til triveligere ting. Denne veska lagde jeg til min lillesøster tidligere i høst. Nærmere beskrivelse av materialer finner du på denne linken. Jeg brukte fingerhekla og tova ”slanger” til skulder remmer. Jeg sydde stoff rundt dem denne gangen for å gjøre dem litt mer forseggjorte.

Thank you so much for all your nice comments and tips on my last blog post! And now from a pretty disturbing issue to something more reassuring again. I made this bag for my little sister earlier this autumn. You can find a closer description of the materials on this link. I used finger knitted and felted “snakes” for the straps, and sewed on some fabric to give them a better finish.

A pretty disturbing pendant

WHIPLASH - OCT/NOV - FIBRE & MIXED MEDIA INSPIRED JEWELLERY
I decided to enter Whiplash Oct/Nov. Here’s a quote from the Whiplash page to explain the theme: “This month’s whiplash them is fibre inspired jewellery. […] Fibre and mixed media jewellery is a wide theme and open for plenty of interpretation. Fibre can be felted, crocheted, knitted, spun or woven and mixed with other media too, mixed media - is pretty much anything all mixed together - usually mixed media might relate to paper and stone and fabric with found objects to create something a little 3D, collage and sculptural all in one piece.”

I thought a lot about what to do, and if there was any specific thought behind what I was going to make. Many months ago I saw felted beads on Whipup for the first time, and I have wanted to try and make some myself. I figured this was an opportunity to do so, and with the help of a tutorial on Knitty.com I got started. Since I’m also a little obsessed with these little train model figures, I wanted to find a way to mix felted beads with the miniature people.
I have also been thinking a lot more about environmental issues this autumn. There’s been much more focus on environmental issues in the media, and the issue seems to turn up more frequently in the world of craft blogs too. I think the future perspectives regarding our environment are scary, and it also makes me feel quite helpless.



So, the thought behind the pendant is: “What to do if this planet ends up not being habitable any more?”



There is an irony to this project that suddenly became obvious to me while making the pendant. The irony’s name is plastic and superglue. The pendant in itself is not environmental friendly. It tells me that I have a lot of habits to change before I can say that I’m environmentally friendly. I wonder if I will ever be able to change my way of living to a degree that it actually amounts to something.





You can see all the entries on this link.

3 x Drops

Jeg har hatt et lite dykk i Drops oppskrifter, og det har fått strikkepinnene til å gå varme. Her er resultatet av det.

I dived into the world of Drops patterns, and here’s the result of that.


Jeg har skrevet tidligere at jeg fikk garn fra Mary i Texas. Et av garnene jeg fikk var Ellan Peruvian Uros Aran. Et tykt og mykt garn i flotte farger som jeg har gledet meg til å bruke. Jeg bruker sjelden blått, men blåfargen på dette garnet har jeg likt fra første stund. Periwinkle heter fargen (nr. 1700), og man må jo bare like en farge med det navnet. Jeg droppet glidelåsen på genseren, ene og alene fordi jeg var redd for å ende opp med å ødelegge genseren. Jeg trenger visst glidelåstrening, men det får bli på et mindre prosjekt først.

I wrote earlier that I got yarn from Mary in Texas. One of the yarns was Ellan Peruvian Uros Aran. It’s a soft yarn i lovely colours, and I’ve looked forward to start using it. I don’t often use blue, but this shade of blue appealed to me at once. The colour is called Periwinkle, # 1700. I didn’t sew a zipper onto this sweater like the pattern says. The reason is that I have no training in sewing zippers onto anything, and I didn’t want to start training on a knitted sweater.













Så en perulue. Den er strikket i Alaska fra Garnstudio, med fargede striper i dobbel Sisu.

Then I made a Peru hat, and I used Alaska from Garnstudio. The coloured stripes are Sisu from Sandnesgarn, and I used a double thread.













Her er en babyjakke fra Drops. Jeg hadde en garnbytte via Ravelry, og likte garnet umiddelbart. Den er strikket i dobbel Inca fra Rauma, farge nr. 011. Jeg strikker løst, så jeg heklet fastmasker rundt kantene på hele jakken for at den skulle bli litt fastere i formen.

Here’s a baby jacket from Drops. I made a yarn swap via Ravelry, and liked the yarn very much. It’s Inca form Rauma, colour # 011. My knitting is quite loose, so I crocheted around all the edges to make the shape of the jacket a bit firmer.