Lucky me

I won!

Look what Brianna from "The Crochet Side" generously giftet me after a contest on her podcast:



The Crochet Answer Book by Edie Eckman - that will teach me everything I want to know about crochet, and more.

and

A light blue, very soft ball of Phildar Coton Micro Fibres. I think I have to make the One Row Lace Scarf. Probably as a moebius cowl as I did with the yarn Love from Vickie Howell.

Hi - I'm back!

I've been spinning, knitting and crocheting all summer, and I think my blog mojo is here too, lets try:

A little bit more about the socks from my last post:



Pattern: My own toe-up, gusset heel socks - love them!
Yarn: Schachenmayr nomotta Regia Silk Color, 1.2 skeins = 261.6 yards (239.2m)
Needle: US 1½ / 2.5 mm


My first buy this year (!):

Black lace weight yarn, over 600 gram:



I better find some shawl patterns I like....


Last September I learned to spin with a drop spindle. I haven't been that eager, but have spun up 100 grams this year, why not buy 700 grams.... (crazy):



And look how far I am in spinning it up:



Yeah....

The wool is bright red, and not easy to take a photo of.


Thank you all for visiting and commenting this summer - I think I'm back :)

Regional Destash Competition

The members of the Craft forum "Hobbyboden" (Norwegian) is having a regional destash competiton starting this evening. I'm in team Oslo and we are ready to fight (read:knit) of the competitors from the rest of Norway.

I'm ready with heavy yarn and big needles - the competition is judged by weight.

Pronto:




Wool-yarn for felting:




In the meantime I'm knitting socks:



The yarn is beatiful, soft merino wool that I got from Karipia. Love, love, love it!

Ravel it!



And YAY! we sold our flat today :D


Have a nice weekend!

I won!

I'm lucky! I got a bearhug AND a price from Karipia.

Karipia took the time to "get to know me" through my blog, and sent me the best gift:



Sockyarn - merino wool - hmmm
Purse - love it!
Stichmarkers - very cute, I'll show them off later
Ear rings - again, to dark to get a good pic of them now
Nice card - about friends
Chocolate - eaten


Karpia: Tusen takk! <3

Gift

Guess what I got - a gift - for no real reason at all:



Thank you so much, Marianne G. A pair of socks are already on my needles :))

New yarn

A new LYS has opened right by my workplace, a beautiful and big store, Congrats to Maud! I have no need for yarn, but I had to buy these:



Very cheap Opal cotton sockyarn. :)

Gardermotreffet 2008

This is what followed me home from Gardermoen:



A book, some yarn, some fiber, a drop spindle, some nearly completed projects, a sweater, kool aid, some fabric and then some...


I got rid of some small items for the premature along:



This is what I finished this weekend:



A small blanket and tiny mittens.


I bought yarn:


Regia Silk and Regia 6 fädig Color

and were gifted yarn:


Opal mit Bambus and Fabel Superwash.

Looks like I'm going to make socks....

Thank you so much to Kate that gave me the Fabel, just because I wanted to try that yarn. The color is beautful, I think that my next project is going to be knitted socks in this yarn.

Thanks to MaritaBK for the fabric, and to Arielle and all her helpers for making this weekend the very best.

Thanks to Knittacia for teaching me how to use a drop spindle, so much fun!

And look:



My first handspun yarn, 230 cm (2.5 yards). *lol*
(park and draft spinning)



And at last: Thanks to all the nice girls I met. I hope we'll meet again soon!

New yarn

I'm the lucky new owner of this beautiful sockyarn:



Stong-Art from Gepard




Maxime print from Flatura Di Crosa. My first merino-yarn. *jummy*

This was a gift from Paren at Hobbyboden. Thank you so much! I promise to make some beautiful soft socks!

STASH!

The summer of stash....

I've been organizing my stash....

I have 31 kg of yarn. I have no idea how many yards that is, but I'm sure it's more than "a lot"...




Dette er garn og diverse hobbyting. 31 kg garn... og nok papir til å lage tusenvis av julekort. Jeg har ca. 40 stempler. Jeg har aldri prøvd noen av dem...

Maja, stakkars, er blitt allergisk mot strikkepinnene sine.



Jeg er heldigvis ikke allergisk, og i tillegg veldig glad for påfyll i mitt lager, så i dag har jeg sittet i sola og sortert og ordnet. :)



Ellers kan det lønne seg å besøke den samme jenta. Se hva jeg kom hjem med:



Hmm - deilig sokkegarn!

Og her er det absolutt mykeste kosegarnet jeg har møtt:



Pep fra Lana Grossa

Og her er Pep Mohair:



Tusen takk!

Got balls?

The pattern for May in the "Sokker2008"-KAL is the Basketcase Socks.

First I had to wind up the yarn...



About 2200 yards...



Made into 100g balls



by hand....



And then I could knit:



The socks are done by the way, I just have to weave in the ends.

Happy knitting!

Did I tell you? - I won...

I know -

I'm the lucky one! :)

Dyveke from "Mitt lille univers" had a comment contest. I didn't understand the contest, but I had to comment in her blog, she has made some beautiful things, and somehow this landed in my hands:



It's an Opal Cotton sock yarn - I love it!

Please visit Dyvekes blog.


Tusen takk, Dyveke! :)

Look what I got :)

Yay!

Vickie Howell had a comment contest, and I won -



The yarn is beautiful. It's "Rock" with soysilk, wool and hemp, in the colors Joan (black) and Kim & Kelly (Turquoise). I also got the pattern for the Lemon Drop Scarf and a nice project bag.

Thank you so much, Vickie!

Yarn and more yarn

I bought yarn. A lot of yarn.

We (my husband and me) drove to SandnesGarn on Saturday and I ended up buying 8.7 kg of yarn. It took about 5 minutes. And I totaly forgot that I was there to buy sockyarn. That's me...

Here is what I bought:



It's Alfa, Smart, Fritidsgarn, Mandarin, Pronto, Mirelle, Tove, Rondo and Tresko.

It makes me happy to have all this new yarn in the house, but I've better find something big to knit really soon, the storage space is limited in this flat.



Still a podcast fan:

A shout-out: Have you listened to Meghan at Stitch it! Podcast? You should! A lot of fun. A really nice podcast and one of my new favorites!

Yarn Mystery III

Liv-Toril's YarnMystery III is finished. This is a Norwegian KAL where about 200 girls are knitting a secret project. This time it ended up to be the Cabled Newsboy Cap from Stitch 'N Bitch Nation:



Pattern: Cabled Newsboy Cap from Stitch 'N Bitch Nation
Yarn: 70 g Mandarin Fiesta
Needles: 4.5 mm


Thank you, Liv-Toril. It was fun! :)


It's winter-holiday in Norway, time to go skiing. Have a happy week everyone.

Fetching and a lot on my needles

Fetching:

How could I resist, with over 4900 projects on Ravelry.

Here is my Fetching:



Pattern: Fetching
Yarn: 45 g Smart from Sandnes
dpns: 4 mm


YarnMystery

Tomorrow we will recieve tha last part of the YarnMystery, I'm ready:




One Row Scarf

Another Harlot-scarf is done:



Same yarn, needles and size as the last one.


Doilies on the needles:




And finaly, a ball that needs felting:



I really hope this ball will look like a ball after felting. Now it's not...



That's all. :))

Yarn Mystery III

Liv-Toril's YarnMystery III has started. This is a Norwegian KAL where about 200 girls are knitting a secret project. No - we don't know what we are knitting, but we still do. :)

I have searched my stash to find a yarn that would fit. I have to look for the right gauge, since I don't know what I'm knitting.

I tried Misti alpaca from Du Store Alpakka:



Then Colonia 140 from handpaintedyarn.com:



But I couldn't get gauge. Do anyone else make swatches like this:



The smaller, the better.... ;)


I ended up with Mandarin Fiesta from Sandnes:



And the first part of the mystery is done:



We will recieve the next part of the pattern on Sunday.


Happy weekend!