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Oh no!!!!! How could I?

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My suitcase was packed, but the knitting was still on the table, as I wanted to work on it while I waited for the airport taxi. Suddenly the taxi came, a few minutes early. I didn´t want the driver to wait and hurried out.......forgetting the knitting.

I was on my way to Fredrikstad, a city south east in Norway, for two days with meetings.
Without my knitting!!!!!

I was not totally without luck though. Some hours later, when the airport bus stopped outside my hotel, I found a yarn shop on the other side of the street.......

 

One stich here, one stich there.......

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When you have your knitting in your purse, you can knit everywhere.
Like when you sit down for coffee at the rhododendron arboret.

Or on the ferry.......

I still have a book in my purse wherever I go.
But now I also have a knitting.

 

With alpaca from Tuscany

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During my stay in Florence in April I shared with you a post about a Sunday Art Market I visited, and some lovely, soft alpaca yarn I bought there. Now, with the jacket for Leander´s bunad finished, it was time for me to start knitting with this yarn. In the stand, together with the yarn, was a beautiful scarf. I photographed it and decided to make my own. The yarn I bought is thinner than the one used in the scarf, which will make it a thinner scarf, which is okay for me :-)

I started last night with a picture of the scarf on my computer, and my diary for counting and scetching.

Looking up at the picture, down at my journal. Trying to figure out how the scarf is made, discussing with myself  if I wanted to do any changes.......

Casting on, starting to knit, realiaing that the yarn was much softer, much thinner than I thought, and therefore quite slippy on the needles. I lost stiches again and again, and several times I was unable to get them back corectly on the needles. Unraveling. Starting again. Unraveling. Starting again. Then I discovered I didn´t quite like the way I started. Unravel again. Starting again.

In the end I got it, and now the scarf is growing.......slowly :-)

 

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I bought the yarn from ANTICOFEUDOALPACA

 

 

Cabin towels knitted in bright cotton

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Cabin life often means some other knitting from what I do at home. Many years ago I bought some soft cottong yarn in different shades of blue and green and started to knit towels and wash clothes. As I work on this only while we are here, and as I always have quite a few other things to do while we are here as well, the progress is slow.

Today I finished a blue towel though.

And here is what my cotton cabin towel and wash cloth collection looks like for the moment :-)

 

The blue blanket

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Summers can be quite cold in Norway, and many years ago I started to crochet a blue blanket for my blue garden.

Year by year the blanket grew slowly. I had started with squares in spring green and one shade of blue, but when I ran out of yarn, so many years had passed, the two colours were not to be found any more.

I had to improve. Two new shades of blue.
It actually makes the blancket better. Kind of fresher.

Now is time to finish the blanket.

 

 

Back and forth.......same distance

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I am a gardener. I love being a gardener.
I am a knitter. I love being a knitter.
I am a blogger. I love being a blogger.

There are so many things I want to do. My days have never enough hours. My energy level is never high enough. Every day I try to teach myself that what I do is enough. What I am is enough. Some days I succeed.

Most days I still pray for more hours though. And I guess that is a blessing. Never a boring moment. Always the life I want to live.

Still there are a few challenges. Like when Terje and I sat out on the veranda outside our kitchen, the verande Terje made for my 50th birthday 9 years ago, tonight (we had sun till about 9.30pm). I was knitting on the two shades grey scarf when I discovered I did something wrong. Two rows in every shade instead of three.

Unraveling it had to be.
We have a saying here in Norway: back and forth, same distance.......

 

 

Inspiration from Captain Hastings

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Leander´s jacket is done. May 17th 2017 is history. I have a long list of knitting projects I want to start, and an even longer list of projects I need to finish. I needed a break though. An old Poirot, knitting on the striped grey scarf.......

.......and then I saw it.

Captain Hasting´s knitted vest!

I let my knitting fall. I grabbed my smart phone.
And soon I had a few photos.

May be a Christmas gift for Terje?
If not for this year, for next, or the one after next :-)

 

 

I made it

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The tricky part

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I have come to the tricky part. Where I have to sew seams with the sewing machine, then cut with the scissors. Cut in my knitting. Can you imagine!

I have done this so many times already, still every time I do it, my heart beats a bit faster. The sewing maching is down in the basement, and while I was down there, getting ready to start sewing, Terje was up in his first floor studio. "Terje, will you please come down a minute. This si so scary. I need you to see what I am about to do, and tell me that I do the right thing" Terje came: "sure, this is perfectly right" and walked back upstairs.

Well, the sewing is not the worst part actually.......

.......cutting is!

"Huffamei" (oh, my gosh) I cried at one point.
"What is it" Terje cried back, "did you do some wrong cutting?"

No, I did not. Believe me, if I had, I wpould have cried sp loud you had all heard it!

 

 

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The bride and her cardigan. A repost

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This is a repost from September 2013

The bride and her cardigan

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Can you remember the cardigan I have been knitting for my niece? The wedding was yesterday. A September wedding. Clouds filled with rain, autumn in the air. The sun shone when Tone and Daniel came out from the church, man and wife, but during the photo session the new cardigan was very convenient for the bride.

Between the seremoni in the church and the dinner the couple went away with the photographer, and my heart missed a beat, just out of happiness, when Tone wore the jacket when they came back.

Isn´t she beautiful :-)

Tone made the flowers herself...... and with a little help from Daniel, she also made the fantastic wedding cake (but that was a story for instagram and facebook)

 

 

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Can you remember the cardigan I have been knitting for my niece? The wedding was yesterday. A September wedding. Clouds filled with rain, autumn in the air. The sun shone when Tone and Daniel came out from the church, man and wife, but during the photo session the new cardigan was very convenient for the bride.

Between the seremoni in the church and the dinner the couple went away with the photographer, and my heart missed a beat, just out of happiness, when Tone wore the jacket when they came back.

Isn´t she beautiful :-)

Tone made the flowers herself...... and with a little help from Daniel, she also made the fantastic wedding cake (but that was a story for instagram and facebook)