Jobbet mye/ Worked a lot

Nå er det på tide å oppdatere Bloggen. Jeg sleit med samvittigheten pga manglende oppdatering men her ha eg jobbet mye. Først i Stavanger og etter det i heimen.

-Jeg laget noen Batts av restfiber jeg hadde liggende.
-Rengjorde og vasket den sisten resten av egen saueull fra i fjor høst.
-Og tvunnet en del tråd på Navajovis.

Og jeg prøvde mine nye såpeformer.
Jeg har kjøpt meg en Dividor, så nå kan jeg lage 30 såper samtidig.
Såpen eg ha laget er rein olivenolje med tilsett sauemelk og fargen har eg laget med en grønn leire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_clay.
 Deilig for huden, ingen tilsettninger i form av parfume.

Forresten, nå på lørdag den 1.oktober er eg i Austrheim igjen. Da er det: Landbruksdagen fra kl 10- 15.
https://www.austrheim.kommune.no/artikkel.aspx?Aid=843&MId1=4&Back=1
Jeg skal være der å demonstrere spinning på rokk. Kom gjerne innom for en prat.

 Hello, I am back again from my work in Stavanger and I allready worked quite a bit at home.
 I made some batts from some left over fiber, sorted out some wool and washed it and made some Navajoplying.
 I used my new soap mold and I am pleased with the result. Oliveoil soap, with sheep milk and some medical clay for the colour. Nice and a good treat for the skin.
The link over says, that you can visit me in Austhreim this weekend. I will give some spinning wheel demonstrastion. If you are around, come and visit .

Hekling/ Crochet

Jeg liker heklete tepper. Så for noen måneder siden startet jeg dette hekleteppe etter oppskift fra denne damen http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/granny-stripe.html
Men jeg starter å tvile...det er såååå stort. Så det krever en del motivasjon til å komme seg videre. Fordelen med denne oppskiften er at den er svært enkel å hekle, så at jeg kan hekle litt på jobben når det er rolig om nettene. Det krever ikke mye konsentrasjon som for eksempel en sjal med hullemønster.
Men, men vi få se hvor langt jeg kommer:) Ha en god uke. Jeg er forresten på jobb i Stavanger, så det blir ikke mye spinning eller ull de neste 3 uker:p


Hello. Some month ago I startet crocheing this blanket http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/granny-stripe.html cause I liked it soo much.
But now I start hasitating a lot cause it is sooo big. So I have to motivate me each day to go on with it..
But the good thing with the pattern is that it is very easy and I can crochet a bit during calm nights at work. Well I will see, hope it will not end as an UFO.
Btw, Ia m in Stavanger at work, so I cant show any spinn or fiber for the next 3 weeks. Bye:)

Vevstove i Austrheim

For en stund siden ble eg kjent med en dame som heter Anne Grete. Desverre har hun ikke en egen nettside ( jeg håper hun få den i fremtiden), men jeg fekk lov å vise noen inntrykk fra hennes vevstove på bloggen min. Jeg var på besøk hos henne på fredag og det var kjempekoselig- takk for det.                                   Anne Grete farger også selv en del av ullet hun vever med. Det gjør hun med planter og jeg ble veldig imponert av, hvor flotte fargene hennes blir.                                                                                                  

Ellers så ble jeg meget imponert av alle vevene hennes. Takk for omvisningen. Jeg hadde en kjempetrivelig kveld.                                                                                                                                                         

Friday I visited Anne Grete. She has a weaving work shop. She allowed me to show some pictures in my Blog, cause you cant find her work on the internett. I hope she will change that in the future, cause I like her weavings a lot. She dyes parts of the wool she uses herself with plants and I was very impressed by the colours. Thanks for a nice evening.                                                                                                              

Fenris på rull

Fenris er en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Duck_Tolling_Retriever og tilhører noen jeg kjenner på Lindås-Nordhordaland. Når han mistet underullet ga matmoren hans ullet til meg og lurte på om det er mulig å spinne med. Jeg prøvde og måtte tvinnen med en sauetråd (hvit farge) men resultatet ble som jeg synes beldig bra. Jeg håper matmoren er fornøyd:) Lengde til tråden er ukjent for meg men det ble 45g.

Fenris is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Duck_Tolling_Retriever and he lives in Lindås/ Nordhordaland. I have got some underwool from his owner some month ago and I managed to spin 45 g. I had to use a sheep wool to ply with (white colour). I hope his owner is happy with the result..I am:)

I changed profile

Out of practical issues I had to change my Blog profile. I cant tell you more about it atm but I will try to explain later. I will still write parts of the Blog in english , but the main language  will become norwegian. I hope for your understanding.

Ut av praktiske årsaker vil Bloggen fra neste innlegg fortsette hovedsakelig på norsk. Jeg vil prøve å forklare mer om det senere. Jeg håper på forståelse.

My new old loom

This is what I bought today. It looks like a "Monika vev (loom), but I am not an expert. Anyway, I found an advertisment in the internett yesterday and it was not too far away from me. Drove there today and bought it. The loom looks quite nice but it is very dirty and looks like not beeing loved for a while.
 Will try to fix/ shine it up during the next days. And than, hopefully I will try it. I have no ideas how but there are books and the internett. If someone has some book suggestions or other ideas please let me know.

Holiday ends

Now Iam back from Thailand after 3 amazing weeks. We had a wonderfull time, but the holdiday went over too fast. Like allways. Coming home feels a bit strange. But on the other hand, it is nice to be back.
Thailand was really worth to visit, the people are so friendly. We had nice stays during the whole holidays. The hotels we stayed at were great and the food was soooo good.
I would love to travel back again....maybe next year..who knows. Anyway it was just amazing. If you are in Bangkok once i can recommand to visit the Jim Thompson house http://www.jimthompsonhouse.com/. It is a great place to visit if you are interested in Thai silk and architecture or just beautifull things.

Without words

R.I.P.

Holidays comes closer

The weather in Stavanger was nice the last day. Some days ago i had shrimps at the habour. It tasted wonderfull. Friday is my last day here. And on sundag I am off for Thailand. :) Will be back in 3 weeks. Cu.

Baby blanket

I finally finished my baby blanket made after this pattern:http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-chalice-blanket
I like it very much and Iam quite proud of me that I managed to give it away as a gift for my friends.:p
They became grandparents for the first time and I want to give something special to their grandchild called Aurora:)
The yarn I used was merino superwash which I spun by myself. I think I used a bit less than 200g and the blanket became after blocking 113x60 cm.
Hope little Aurora and parents will enjoy it:))

Angeline wool

We have one grey/ black sheep between all the others and her name is Angeline.http://flowerssaape.blogspot.com/2009/04/her-ser-du-sapen-i-formen.html. Here is an old picture from her when she was still a lamb.
She has wonderfull wool and I spun it direct from her fiber without washing it. It has not so much Lanolin in it so it was nice to have in the hands and on the wheel. Its 3 thread, no Navajo, just 3 real threads together. Alltogether it is 250 g. I need about 200 g more. Have plans to knit a shirt from it, but not sure yet. It have to wait cause Iam off for some works the next month. Afterwards I will fly to Thailand...so looking forward to it. Hoping for 3 lovely weeks in Asia:)
Anyway, I will try to update my Blog but forgive me, if I cant manage it. Have a nice summer all together.

Facing trouble..

Dear reader...i have really trouble to comment your comments. I havnt figured out why it will not work anymore.
 I can log into my Blog but I cant comment, as I than get the message to log inn, so i log in and than i get new info om inlogging. Have checked my settings but cant figure it out. Maybe you can give me some suggestions?
Anyway I just wanted to say thank you for making comments on my Blog. I really appriate that:))

Surprise and more

Some days ago i wanted to make a soap again. And I was really afraid of what was going to happen with the colour of the soap cause the perfume and the colours didnt work together as I hoped for(discoloration).
But in the end it turned out as a quite good result and the smell is lovely: Tearose.

Other things that happend yesterday: I met the lady from this blog http://filletantefishfish.blogspot.com/
It was so nice to talk to somebody who is into spinning as I am and i hope we will meet again:)

I met her here: http://www.ull.no/media//Torgdag-04062011-plakat.pdf
I was there to demonstrate the visitors how to use a spinning wheel. It was nice. Lots of interesting people showing their craftingwork and I wonder what will be my next thing..maybe buying a weaving loom..:)

I had a really good weekend...have all a good week..bye, bye for today

Summer

These are some real summer colours. I just love them. The fiber is from our own sheep: Dalasheep and i dyed with Ashford colours using red and yellow. We have not summer weather yet but these colours makes me feel quite warm. I wish all of you a good weekend.

The result

Here it is. The result of my last week spinning.

Sometimes it is good when there is an internett failure.

Cause in the night from friday to saturday we had such a heavy storm, and thunder and lightning. The lightning caused that all our electricity went and when it came back the broadband was down. After a call to the company we figured out that the router was broken and yesterday we got a new one.

But anyway, I had lots of time to spin and I started knitting on a baby blanket again with some other yarn I made earlier.

I will come back later with that one. Have a nice day:)

Hello

Not allways easy to go on writing in my blog at times. I experience a lack of creativity in the last months.
But yesterday I felt really happy to create this yarn. Uplifting colours. I wanted to share them with you.

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.

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.