God påske.

God påske :)

Hos oss har påsken vært en trivelig uke hjemme med forskjellige aktiviteter og samvær med venner og familie.
Litt er blitt strikket og noen turer tatt. Men jeg sier som før, ferie er godt, ja, men hverdagen passer meg best.

Har som et lite mål nå og bruke mer tid på trening og ting jeg liker. Ikke bare holde på med burde burde.

Noe er blitt strikket. Min utgave av Martines kabelvotter. Jeg tilpasset oppskriften fordi jeg bruker Lett-Lopi og skal ikke tove de. Jeg må bare si at jeg elsker den brente orangefargen.

Maroccan stripes

One of my favorite knit-designers on Ravelry.com is Veera Välimäki. Her knitwears are both simple they yet really interesting .The patterns are really well written ( allthough for some it doesn´t help hihi).

I´ve been lurking around on Ravelry on her design page and I finally bought a pattern.


Color affection


I call my version  Maroccan stripes. The colors reminded me somehow of  Marocco allthough I´ve never been there.

It became quite big because I didn´t reed the entire pattern, as one maby should :D

It´s well over 2 meters in with and is so lovely to drape in. 

Ithink it will be lovely to use in chill sommer evenings and on cold winterdays.

I was dertermined to use yarn from my stash, that is why I only used two colors for the third color combo and had a complimentary color for the edging.

The yarn I used is Silja sock yarn from Spar kjøp ( the gray, mustard and rusty orange) and Ida sock yarn from Europris.(the purple)

I really liked the pattern and I think I would make this again. I might have some yarn stashed away (!!) (Really?????)  uhummmmm, yeah!!!!!!!

Finally an update from me.

It was about time to update here. I've been quite busy lately with a new job, school starting for my boys and real life.

In between I've taken a few moments for my self and relaxing with my knitting.

This is my favorite jacket knitted in Sterk, alpackablend. It's really a sock yarn but it is oh, so soft and the jacket is so good to wear. And i really like the colors together.
This shawl is knittet early this sommer and I forgot all about it. I can't even remember the name of the yarn.

But the pattern is travelling woman by Liz Abinante.

It was an easy knit and I think I maybe will knit this again sometime.

These socks are all knittet on my sommervacation . The yarn is all leftovers from my colorfull jacket. The sizes are ca 30-34 in eouropeean sizes.

Also some leftover knitting.

Fingerless mittens by Jessica Jensen

in Sterk.

A jacket (allmost) for my son in doble plötulopi. The pattern is a free pattern only available in Icelandic.

This sweater is also knittet for my son in one ply plötulopi.

It seems like I'm getting ready for the coldest winter ever, but the fact is that my boy is probably not going to wear any of this. But a mother can hope...........c",)

Now I'm knitting a dress for my self. And the progress is good. But now I'm waiting for my hubby and oldest son to get home from church. And then we are going canooing .:)

Ski-weekend

Here in Norway they say that people are born with skies on ther feet , but since we are Icelandic so that doesn't apply for us:) When our oldest was younger we bought skies for him, but he never got the hang of it, and liked snowboard better. . And I............ Well I've never been skiing.
But miracles do happen, haha.
Last saturday we bought skies for our youngest, and here he is so proud of his crossoverskies.


And since we had skies lying around since our oldest was trying to ski, I put them on and.......................... went skiing ( or stumbled around should I say).
This was really nice and I think I will do this more often.
My little one thought it was quite nice that we were on the same level, lol.
Look at us here, all caught up in our outing:D
But all wasn't great. He was complaining about cold hands and wantet to go inside again. When we went in again, I felt his hands and they were freezing. Fleecemittens are no good in cold weather, and I knittet him a new pair.


That same afternoon he became sick. High fever, and feeling poorly. His is still sick and but has tried on his new mittens.
This is a Multnomah ( a Ravelry link) sjawl I finished knitting for my mum. I hope you like it mum xxxxx.
It is quite long from end to end. Over 2 m. (about 7",I think). Its knittet with Online sockyarn on 4,5 mm needles.