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Socks for May

@brittarnhild

May in Norway is red, white ands blue. Honestly, it is. You can add some sparkling spring green if you want, but only if the green comes from tiny little birch tree leaves, or from wood anemones. 

You see, May is the month of May 17, Norway´s birthday, our Constitutional Day. 

Terje and I will celebrate the day in Stockholm, Sweden, this year, with our oldest son, who lives there. No bunad, but as there is actually a Norwegian parade in the middle of Stockholm, we will bring a flag or two.

 

Another pair of cabin socks are finished.
I still have yarn for two more.

 

Where are all the knitting blogs

@brittarnhild

Cabin life. Which also means knitting life :-)
A cold day today, the forecast for tomorrow is much better, but I am still sitting outside, with all I need for a perfect day at hand. Camera, binoculars, knitting, a book and my journal. Well, not exactly all. There is no coffee cup here. But I am only showing you the extra table. The main table has our coffee cups and a coffee pot and even a couple of sweet rolls. So we are fine :-)

I have brought with me several knitting projects this weekend, hoping to finish some UFOs. This blue knitting is actually a little baby outfit (body)  my daughter Ingrid has knitted. For yet another friend expecting a baby. I have no number of how many of these Ingrid has knitted now. And as always I am helping her with the last touch, the edge around the opening for the feet.

While I sit here knitting, I am thinking of the wonderful world of knitting and of knitters. All the trillions of knots binding us together. And I am wondering about other knitting blogs. I have found a very few, you can count them on one hand. But there must be thousands, hundreds of thousands of them out there.

The ones I have found, you can find under "knitting blogs I love"  in the right hand side menu,,,,,,,scroll down a little to find it. I am sure you know about others. Please share with me the address to your favourite knitting blogs, and who knows, I might love them as well, and will add the address to my list.

 

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By the way, here is a little video from our cabin today, among other things with two flycatchers busy building a home:

 

 

A knitted treasure in the mail

@brittarnhild

There was a small packet in our mailbox the other day. Addressed to me.Curiosity got me, and I could hardly wait to open it. Inside I found a long letter, the cutest card, and two handknitted dish cloths :-) All from Terri, a long time internet friend in Oklahoma. Terri and I have been friends ever since internet was a fresh toddler and yahoo had its groups. Which was long before facebook and instagran and youtube and all these newer platforms.  When I created the yahoo group Britt´s Knitting Loft, Terri became one of the first members, and if I remember correctly, I played an important role in teaching Terri to knit. By sending her a Norwegian knitting kit with instructions, yarn and needles, made for kids :-)

Many years have passed since then. Now Terri sis an avid knitter, with a charming grandson to knit for. And here she found time to knit me two lovely dish clothes.

Thank you dear Terri.