fredag 7. januar 2011

Is it possible?...



...I made a pair of socks:)


You know, I am not a sock knitter. I must admit, I hate it:S

Or do I?

The problem was I think, that I had problems with the heal and cap knitting and that made me frustrated. I allmost allways had a one sock UFO left:(

But this time I bought thikker yarn and I made a for me different heal, called a boomerang heal and it worked allmost fine. Well I finished them and that give me enough confidence to try one more time. The cap went well. And the next pair will hopefully get better.




onsdag 5. januar 2011

Happy new year







Happy new year and good morning:)



I hope you had all a very good x-mas and a good start into the new year. Here it was quite good. Kids were pleased with presents and we all had a good time together.



I got myself some Knit Pro needles for x-mas and they are so wonderful to knit on that I finished my shawl Birch http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/falling-birch-leaves which I wrote earlier about.



Yesterday I washed it and tried to block it, but it was not working as good as I wanted. So I had to improvise a bit cause I have no blocking wires or something like it. ( Have to spend some money on it for the next project:p :)



Anyway, here I show you the result from my improvising and I became quite pleased with it.

Yes, I am still an amateur when it comes to Lace but I am working on it to become better. Still I think for my first blocking it`s not too bad.

The shawl is about 2 metres long and about 45cm wide on the smallest part.

tirsdag 21. desember 2010

Merry x-mas




Today there are no wooly pictures. Today it is food.


I wanted to show you one of my x-mas presents I`ve got. I am so happy and I asked Santa if it`s ok to open it before x-mas, cause I had a bit of baking to do.
And the machine works fantastic. Iam so pleased and so is my son.
He has Coeliac disease and I have to do all the bread and cake baking by myself. So it helps me a lot with a good kitchen machine.
Today I baked Lefse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefse. And he is very pleased with me.
Finally I want to wish all my readers a merry x-mas.
Iam not sure that I have the time the next days to make a new Blog update. Enjoy the next days and have a good time together with the family and friends.
To get you in a good x-mas mood I want to share one of my favorite norwegian x-mas songs with you. Enjoy. Love Sandra.

torsdag 16. desember 2010

Wool for my mother


In the summer I made this: http://flowerssaape.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html and in the picture you see the final result. But it was quite interesting to see that thing not allways become like you expect them to be:)

Well it was a bit of a surprise when i put the two threads together. But the thread was loved by my mother when she came over in August.
Last week I finished the rest of the fiber that she get the whole yarn for x-mas.
I dont know how many grams or metres it was all together. But I think she can knit a short armet jacket or something out of it.

tirsdag 7. desember 2010

Not often






Hello again:) It happens not often that I show you pictures of myself, but I got nice pictures send from this lady: http://poletsy.blogspot.com/2010/11/featured-seller-feltik-magdalena.html?spref=fb
One week ago we had a christmas fair here on the island and I took my wheel with me to show people how it works.
Last wednesday I tried to go over to London for some x-mas shopping but unfortunatley all flights to Gatwick were cancelled because of the snowy weather conditions in London. So I had to stay home, sooo disappointed:(
Anyway, now Iam back and I started to prepare last weekend with some xmas cooking/ baking and other fun things.
It was quite cold here so I went iceskating with the kids, that was lots of fun.
Ok, have a nice week everyone:)

fredag 26. november 2010

Nuno again


Hello and good morning.

This is the result from yesterdays felting and Iam very happy. It is a shawl again. I really love the colours on the silk fabric. I dyed it by myself and on top I used mostly alpacca and silk. ...love it:)

What do you think?

onsdag 24. november 2010

This is what I got:)




Yesterday I showed you all the result of my dyeing day. Today I will show you what Ihave made from it;) Iam extremely happy with the result. Isnt it beautiful? Fibermagic:)))