maskerade

The secret crochet, a purse

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Drumroll.......the secret crochet is finished. A purse.

With the orange broche made by women at the city mission in Trondheim.

I think it turned out even better than I had seen in my mind when starting it :-)

 

Day 3 of the secret crochet

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It is Friday, tonight my youngest brother Torodd Wigum will conduct a concert in Kristiansund, a coastal town a few hour´s drive southwest of Trondheim. Terje and I are on our way there together with my parents, and the secret crochet. I smiled when I read Ardi´s comment about orange and Britt Arnhild, yes, you are right Ardi, I love orange.

The project continue to grow, may be it is possible to do a correct guess now? Or tomorrow.......tomorrow will be easy, I promise :-)

 

 

Day 2 of the secret crochet

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I have finished one of the black skeins, cotton, and the project is growing. Dagmar´s guess is that it has to do with Christmas. My answer is - no, it hasn´t :-)

I bought five skeins for this secret project, but from what I can see now, I will not need all of them. 3 or 4 should be enough I think. The orange button, which I showed on my instagram account @brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok the other day, will take part in the secret project.

 

..............any guesses today?

 

Secret knitting, or rather crochet :-)

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Quite some time since my last secret knitting series now, so here I am again. Though this time it is not knitting, but crochet. I know it is a bit early yet, but who wants to give the first guess :-)

Ok, here is the secret :-)

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I took the knitting with me to the seminar.
I knitted.
And the project turned out exactly as I hoped.

Can you see what it is?
I don´t know any English word for it, so I need you help.

Well, it did not turn out quite exactly as I hoped. I used 15 stitches, which is a bit too much. I did not have enough yarn to make the circle big enough, and it is a bit too thick for my linking. I found some other left over yarn, knitted with 10 stitches only and it looks much better. I might unravel this one and try with only 8 stitches.

 

Can you see how it is done?
Let me know if you want more explanation and I will do another post with that.

 

Time for a new little secret project

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I continue to work on the white and red sweather for Leander. It is quite a lot og work though, so I want something very simple to work on too. To put in my purse when I go somewhere I know I might be able to knit for instance. Like a seminar I am attending later today.

As I have mentioned before, our basement is full of left over yarn and unfinished projects. So here I have the left overs of a multi coloured skein, two needles and an idea in my mind to make something I remember seeing some time, long ago.

I am not quite sure if it will work, but if it does, this will be a great idea for gifts.

 

Of course I´ll keep you updated :-)

 

Secret knitting II result.

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Yes, Mardelle, you are absolutely right, I am using the nettle yarn to knit a few scrubbers. Small bags where I can put the small pieces of left over soaps. I never use these modern bottles of soap. As I am allergic to so many types of perfume, I always buy organic, homemade soap bars, "perfumed" with natural herbs ands flowers. One bar will fit into one of the scrubber bags, but more likely I will use all these tiny little pieces of left overs.

I have not yet tried the bags, and have no idea if the nettle yarn is stiff enough.

I will let you know.

 

A new Secret knitting II

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The first little "secret knitting" is done, but not quite finished yet.
Another one is on the needles.

Do you have a clue?

 

A new Secret Knitting post

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Back in March, when maskerade was fairly new, I did a three step secret knitting, which ended in a pair of orange wrist warmers, decorated with old buttons. Today, to speed up maskerade a little, I started another secret knitting, using the nettle yarn I bought at the St. Olav Market in Trondheim.

I loved your comments on yesterday´s post Mardelle. yes, nettle is a plant, just like linen, and make a strong, though a bit stiff yarn. The skein I bought is made by women in Nepal.

Here you see the secret knitting as it is growing. I am quite sure it is almost impossible to guess when I am working on, but may be you want to try anyway :-)

 

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If you want to see my previous secret knitting you can follow this link. This post comes on the top, so make sure to scroll down to see the others.

 

The secret knitting result

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I don´t have much time for knitting these days, honestly, but then yesterday was another knitting on work - day, when I could busy my fingers while listening to lectures. I don´t know how it is for you, but I am in no doubt that I concentrate so much better when my fingers have something to work on, and best of all when the something is yarn and needles.

All of a sudden the secret knitting was finished, and tonight has been the time to do the finishing touches. Buttons, a needle, scissors,  a little trying this, trying that to figure out how I wanted it, and.......

.......then I got it!

My new wrist warmers are ready :-)

 

And in between my 15 months old grandson was a great helper, sorting my old buttons. Many of them came from his great-grandmother, my grandma Olga.