A long week!

This has been a long week! Tuesday I did nothing....!
Yes,  I have some off those days too...  (feet up, napping in in the sofa...)...

Wednesday I was back on track and did the new loops in both armwholes on the Aron vest, in the evening I went to my quiltguild meeting. I had great fun and as Bodil, I bought new fabric too! ha ha ha

Sølvi spoke about her life as a quilter, that was great fun. We got to see some photos of her makings and at the end some photos of her sewing room, I`m still smiling (and I will be buying fabrics with the knowledge that she has A LOT more fabrics than me.......). Sølvi also made me realize not to hold on to the newest stash, just use them while they are new and delicious...... and yummy, instead off waiting until they grow old on the bottom off the stash pile..... yep, I took that to hart and I`m making new plans......

Berit help`t me with the toe-up socks toe.....  I`m still not getting it right!

At show and tell I showed them my Beautiful Miss, I really like show and tell, it is so inspiring. You can see photos here.

Thursday I went to a knitting cafe with a dear quilting friend, I finished knitting the Aron vest. But when I showed it to Kirsti, a dear friend. She said that the neck whole might bee to tight...... urgh! Thank you Kirsti for telling me, and make me try it on him BEFORE I sewed all the loos ends! I also made a new knitting friend, I hope. She is from Klepp, about 45min drive from Stavanger where I`m from. Really nice lady and so fun to get to know someone from "back home"........

I bought a piece of cheese cake at the knitting cafe........ ups ....... shouldn`t have done that. Even before we got home I felt something was wrong..... and while watching crime on tv I felt even worse...... It became an awful night at the toilet..... and all Friday went the same way. I wonder if anyone else got sick?

Saturday went a lot better, even  walked to the store with my 3kids + 2....  finished the Aron vest, and started on something new....

Hanne-Kristine

Morning bliss

I try to get some me-time in the morning..... 

yes! I guess I need the time to wake up... ha ha ha

I do as Hanne does, start with a tread and a cup of the.

I did this 15 min before I woke up the children.....

And this about 30 min after they left for school......

This evening I hope I can get to do a bit on the arm-wholes.

Hanne-Kristine

Small steps

Finally the children has gone to bed and I can get back to my knitting,
I`ve been waiting for this all day...

I`m doing this in small steps, making sure I don`t need to undo anything... 

I always knit shoulders together, it makes a nice row of stitches on the back.

It`s always scary to pick up loops around the neck. I read the pattern well

and make a sketch of how many loops and where they go.

 I use treads in contrast color to help me keep the loops in order.

 

 

I think this is looking good.... yep, I`ll keep this one.

So far, so good.... ha ha ha

Hanne-Kristine

This weekend...

This is what I`ve done over the weekend. It is taking me forever! I have desided not to knit on the toe-up socks before the Aron vest is done! well almost that is...... I hope to finish it this week.....

 

This was Saturday evening.

 

Sunday I spent making the neckopening.

 
 

This evening I hope to get even further.......

Hanne-Kristine

Beautiful Miss

My Beautiful Miss

 

 I think it came out quite well after all. I`m very happy about it.

My learning curve from the day I started this one till today is

insane..... ha ha ha....

Honestly, I`ve made a few ooppss and aarrhhsss...

Hanne-Kristine

Two more finishes for today

In my post for 9 february, I showed you what I made off the test cloth from a previous machine quiltingclass, and the smallest purse was not done, now it is. 

 

Purse from previous post.

I needed to sew the end off the zipper together...

..then cover the seams.

Sew on by machine, folded, pined down and sewn by hand.

I also made a scissor keeper to match.

Small bag, small purse and a scissor keeper. 

I`m very happy about today's work, and even better..... 

my Beautiful Miss is drying by the fire.....

Yes, today was a good one..... :0)

Hanne-Kristine

A sweater...!

In my desperate attempt to find Beautiful Miss bindingfabric I looked through MANY plastic bags and boxes. I found wips I did not know I had...... very funny!
I get so surprised " did I make this?". 

Now they are visiting the OPAM shelf..... 

This one, is a sweater I made for my youngest. 

 I the main pattern is a grown up pattern, the size is a children`s pattern.

The yarn is Dale Baby wool, I used  about 263 gram. 2 white skeins and 4 blue.

All that was left was some loose ends and to sew together the holes under the arms.

I can recall that I thought it was to big..... now I believe it will be a perfect fit. 

 

But you know, the youngest would not try it on! Maybe later if mom is lucky.... ha ha ha

Hanne-Kristine

Beutiful Miss is finished

Yes! It`s finished. Finally.....  

  And a large thanks to Sølvi that suggested to use the rust fabric for binding. I`m very satisfied with the result. Tomorrow I`ll wash away the blue quiltinglines. I`m a bit worried though that the rust fabric in the middle will bleed, when I gave the binding a wash it did. 

Hanne-Kristine 

Back on track....

I`m really getting somewhere.....

I`ve been a busy girl all day and this evening..... Really...

And now I can enjoy sewing on the binding on the back.....

 

 I finished handquilting a few days ago. 

I think I have a got new favorite quilting pattern, this looks really good.

 

I had doubts about this lace, but decided to sew it on.

328 cm of binding....

Down in my dark sewingroom, I had a meeting with ms Paff.....

It was a good one.... jepp!

Ready to sew the rest of the binding on by hand. 

The Norwegian men are on the gold race in the Olympics..... 

Go Emil and the rest...... enjoy

Hanne-Kristine

Strikkekafe på Kafe Filter i Ila (knitt-cafe)

Var på strikkekafe på kafe Filter i Ila i går, det var en spennende afære... vi skulle lære å strikke sokker fra tuppen og opp! Ja! bare for å ha avklart det....JEG FÅR DET IKKE TIL... ja sånn, nå e det sagt... åhh det gjorde godt!

Det hele er egentlig en enkel sak, det er bare jeg som knoter... ha ha ha

Først lager du luftmaskebue på ca 45lm i en kontrast tråd. 

Tar sokkegarnet og  plukker opp 36m i "humpen" bak på buen.

Du strikker vrangt tilbake.

Så skal du sette igjen 1maske i begynnelsen på pinnen samtidig som du lager et kast og strikker.

Det er viktig at det blir både en vanlig maske og et kast igjen for hver runde.

Når du har 12 masker igjen midt på pinnen skal du begynne å ta opp igjen maskene!

 Det er her jeg gjør feil! Jeg skjønner prinsippet, men klarer ikke å felle sammen 

masker og kast riktig og får det klumpete i "sidesømmene" .......

Så da jeg kom hjem i går kveld strikket jeg ny tå ifra nytt nøste. Så  rekket opp den jeg begynte på kafeen og strikket den omigjen. Nå er jeg kommet like langt på begge.... og til kvelden skal jeg atter en gang prøve...

 

Jeg har funnet en engelsk strikkeoppskrift fra tåa opp og har virkelig lyst å prøve den. Så jeg har ingen planer om å gi meg så fort. Jeg er ganske sikker på at det bare er en dum liten vri jeg gjør som blir så feil. 

Prøving gjør mester...... jada, men fy så kjedelig å rekke opp!

Nå skal jeg gjøre noe jeg får til....... ha ha ha

I attended a knit-cafe yesterday evening. We where going to knit socks from the toe up! Never tried this before and I`m giving it my best go, but I`m doing something wrong. So when I got home I started again on the other sock and when I came to the part where I do not do it right I re-knitted the first one. Later when the kids are gone to bed I`ll try again. I have found some beautiful socks on a blog I would like to try to knit (from the toe up), so I`m really going to get i right..... really....

Hanne-Kristine