Wollmeise og is / Wollmeise and ice

I går var ALT mit Wollmeise ude af skabet så jeg fik kigget på det. Der var ret meget..... 

Her er mit Wollmeise DK, det tykke, og jeg fandt ud af at jeg strengt taget ikke havde behøvet at købe noget til piratsweateren. MEN den brune jeg købte i Hamburg er meget flottere end den jeg havde i forvejen, så det var godt jeg gjorde det! 

Det er jo fantastisk at se alle de farver! Der er helt sikkert til nogle projekter her! 

Bagefter blev det hele pakket ned igen, men lidt smartere denne gang. Før lå strømpegarn og ren uld i samme kasse. De ser helt ens ud og når de først er vundet op er det umuligt at vide om det er det ene eller det andet! Nu ligger strømpegarnet med DK og ren uld med lacegarnet. Så kan jeg nemmere finde det rigtige. 

Yesterday, ALL my Wollmeise came out of the closet so I could take a look. It was a lot!

This is my Wollmeise DK, the thicker yarn, and I discovered that I didn't really have to buy anything for the pirate sweater. BUT the brown yarn I bought in Hamburg looks a lot better than the brown one in my stash, so it was really good that I did it!

It's amazing seeing all those colors! There are definitely yarn for some projects!

Afterwards, everything was packed into boxes again, but smarter. Before, the socks yarn and pure wool was in the same box. They look identical and once they are wound it's impossible to know if it is one or the other! Now the sock yarn is sharing a box with DK and pure wool with the lace yarn. Makes it easier for me to find the right yarn. 

Jeg kom også til Amager Strand og fik set isen! Det er altid vildt når der er så meget is - for eksempel her på badebroen. 

Der var en hel flok på vej i vandet ved Helgoland. Jeg tror aldrig jeg bliver vinterbader.....

I also got to the beach to see the ice! It's always so wild when the ice takes over like this - for instance this bathing jetty. 

There was a small crowd going in the water at the bathhouse. I don't think I'll ever bathe in the winter....

Nå ja - og så blev strømperne til min søster færdige! De er SIMPELTHEN så flotte! Både farve og mønster, så i år må du ikke engang se farven, Henriette! Jeg troede de skulle være i fancy fransk garn købt i Doylestown, men så blev det altså "bare" Wollmeise..... De kommer rigtigt på bloggen når de er nået godt frem!

Oh well - and then the socks for my sister got done! They are so INCREDIBLY pretty! Both the color and the pattern, so this year you can't even get to see the color, Henriette! I did think I would knit them in fancy French yarn bought in Doylestown, but they ended up being "plain" Wollmeise.... They will appear here once they arrived safely!

Perfekt dag til Wollmeise! / Perfect day for Wollmeise!

I dag vågnede jeg til begyndelse til slutningen på vinteren! Regn og plusgrader. Det tager nok lidt tid før sneen helt er væk, og dagen kan så f.eks. bruges til at kigge på garn! (Jeg vil også ud til Amager Strand og se al isen før den forsvinder, altså....)

Today I woke up to the beginning of the end of winter! Rain and positive temperatures. It will take a while before the snow is all gone, so the day can for instance be used to look at yarn! (I also want to go to Amager beach to see all the ice before it completely disappears.....)

I Hamburg købte jeg en hel del Wollmeise, så jeg tror faktisk jeg skal have kigget på min beholdning i dag! Bare for at få lidt styr på lageret. 

Først kan I se det virkelig fornuftige køb af Wollmeise. Jeg købte nemlig (næsten) sort og lortefarvet garn! Jeg håber meget jeg har noget hvidt i kassen (det tror jeg) så der er til en piratsweater til ham på 4 år. Det bliver helt sikkert godt! 

In Hamburg I bought quite a lot of Wollmeise, so I do think I need to look through my stash today! Just to know what I have. 

First, you get to see my very sensible Wollmeise shopping. I bought (almost) black and poop-colored yarn! I really do hope that I have some white in my box (I think so) so there will be enough for a pirate-sweater for the 4-year old. It will be perfect!

Det her var så det totalt lyst-styrede køb af Wollmeise DK. Jeg kunne SLET ikke lade "Amazonas" eller "Tarzan" ligge! Jeg ANER ikke hvad det skal blive til, men det er flot, ikke? Jeg købte det endda i andre tykkelser også....... 

De her farver er bare så flotte! Kender I det?

So this was bought totally based on my feelings. By NO means could I let "Amazonas" or "Tarzan" just stay on the shelf! I have NO idea what this should become, but it's so pretty, right? I even bought it in other qualities..... 

These colors are just so pretty! Do you know the feeling?

Starstruck

Nicola Susen er en helt vildt dygtig og anderledes designer - hendes mønstre (måske bortset fra strømperne, altså....) kan strikkes i lige det garn og på de pinde du har lyst til. Der er ingen fastlagt strikkefasthed. Jeg har strikket 2 af hendes sweatre og 3 af hendes strømper. Vist ikke nok til at kalde mig en kæmpe fan, men DET ER JEG! Så da hun var på strikkefestival var jeg totalt starstruck! Jeg nåede at sige til hende at jeg synes hun er genial og savle over alle de mønstre hun havde med på tysk. Derefter købte jeg nogle flere af hendes mønstre på Ravelry, og nu MÅ jeg altså i gang med at strikke mig en ny Hexagon!

Nicola Susen is an incredibly talented and different designer - her patterns (maybe except the socks, you know....) can be knit in just the yarn and the needles you feel like. There is no required gauge. I have knit 2 of her sweaters and 3 of her socks. I guess it's not enough to call myself a huge fan, but I AM! So when she was at the knit festival, I got totally starstruck! I managed to tell her that I think she is a genius and drool over all the patterns she brought in German. 

Afterwards, I bought a few more of her patterns on Ravelry, and now I really MUST start knitting another Hexagon for me!

Meget hurtig / Very fast

Min fikse idé sweater vokser ret godt. Den er kommet så langt nu at jeg er blevet klar over at der vist ikke er nok af mine to slags garn til kanter også. Hvis der skal ærmer på (det skal der!). 

Så jeg gik i skabet igen og bestemte mig for at kanterne skal være røde. 

Jeg tror virkelig det bliver godt!

My clever idea of a sweater is growing well. It has come so far that I've realized that there is probably not enough in my two kinds of yarn to even make edges. If it's having sleeves (it will!). 

So I went to my closet again and decided that the edges are going to be red. 

I do think this will be really good!

Så. Meget. GARN! / So. Much. YARN!

 

Hamburg

Jeg havde ferie i sidste uge. En lidt knækket ferie fordi jeg skulle på arbejde onsdag, men stadig ferie! Hele ugen gik jeg og glædede mig til fredag hvor jeg skulle til Hamburg til strikkefestival. Der var lovet snestorm, så ingenting var sikkert! Men sne eller ej - fredag så udsigten sådan her ud. Den HELT forkerte bro!

I had a vacation last week. A bit broken because I had to work on Wednesday, but vacation anyway!

All week I was looking forward to Friday when I was going to Hamburg for a knitting festival. The forecast said snowstorm, so nothing was certain! But snow or not - on Friday my view looked like this. A VERY different bridge!

Ann Jeanet kan (også) godt lide Wollmeise og havde fundet festivallen "Farbenrausch" hvor Wollmeise skulle komme. Jeg fik lov at følge med! Eftersom Wollmeise jo er så fint startede vi rundturen hos - ja - Wollmeise. Se lige de fine farver!

Ann Jeanet (also) likes Wollmeise and found the festival "Farbenrausch" where Wollmeise would be coming. I got to come along! Since Wollmeise is so pretty, we started our trip around the room at - yes - Wollmeise. Just check out the beautiful colors!

Altså - jeg tør slet ikke prøve at fortælle HVOR meget lækkert garn, HVOR mange flotte designs og HVOR mange gode tilbud der var! Det var helt vildt! Vi fandt en god plads hvor vi kunne kigge på alles fine striktrøjer og sjaler mens vi selv slappede af. 

Efter et par ture rundt følte jeg mig ret meget som damen her. Meget ulden både i hjernen og øjnene!

Well - I don't dare just trying to tell you HOW much beautiful yarn, HOW many amazing designs and HOW many great offers there were! It was crazy! We found very good seats where we could look at everyone's knitted sweaters and shawls while we relaxed. 

After a few trips around the room I felt like this lady. Very woolen brain and eyes!

Tak for en dejlig tur, Ann Jeanet! Det var en fantastisk weekend!

Thank you for such a nice trip, Ann Jeanet! It was an amazing weekend!

For sent? / Too late?

Det var Valentines dag i lørdags. Dagens opskrift er en forsinket Valentine opskrift. Altså - man kan vel altid bruge noget fornuftigt med hjerter, kan man ikke? Ellers må du gemme opskriften til næste år. Det er de her fine grydelapper i dobbeltstrik med hjerter. (Man kan eventuelt strikke dem rundt hvis man bedre kan lide det...)
 

Saturday was Valentine's Day. Today's pattern is a late Valentine pattern. Well - you could always use something sensible with hearts, can't you? If not, you can safe the pattern for next year. It's these pretty pot holders in double knitting with hearts. (You could also knit them in the round if you like that better....)

Læsere / Readers

Helt fra jeg startede min blog har jeg haft den holdning at den måtte leve sit eget liv. Altså - jeg synes det er så hyggeligt at have den, men det er ikke noget jeg deler med venner og familie uopfordret! Så meget går mine venner og familie heller ikke op i at jeg strikker, nemlig. Jeg får tit at vide at jeg deler "meget" strik på Facebook. De skulle bare vide at det er stort set ingenting! Det er jo derfor jeg har min blog!

Nå. Men den lever så sit eget liv! Der kommer folk herind fra stort set hele verden. Jeg forstår virkelig ikke hvorfor! Altså - Singapore? Det er ret sjovt og temmelig vildt! 

Right from the very start of this blog my opinion has been that it should live it's own life. Well - I do really like having it, but I'm not sharing it with my friends and family without them asking! My friends and family are not that into all my knitting, you know. They often tell me that I share "a lot" of knitting on Facebook. If only they knew how little I share! I have my blog to dive into all the knitting and creative stuff!

Well. So it really lives it's own life! People are coming here from almost all over the world. I really don't know why. You know - Singapore? It's really fun and incredible!

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De her strømper er blevet færdige i rigtig god tid! Heldigt nok, for jeg havde virkelig svært ved at starte på dem. Det lykkedes først i tredje forsøg da jeg begyndte at strikke som der stod i opskriften!

Mønsteret hedder "Disturbance in the Force". Et rigtig fint snoningsmønster som var sjovt at strikke. 

Garnet er fra en garnadventskalender for nogle år siden fra Cleo garn. Meget lækkert! Det er vist lidt tykkere end det almindelige strømpegarn, så de vejer hele 80 gram! 

These socks got done ahead of time! Pure luck, because I really had trouble starting them! I only succeeded when starting for the third time and actually knit like the pattern said. 

The pattern is called "Disturbance in the Force". A really pretty cable pattern that was fun to knit. 

The yarn is from a yarn Advent calendar a few years back from Cleo yarn. Great yarn! I think it's a bit heavier than normal sock yarn, so they weigh 80 grams!

En pludselig ide / A sudden idea

I går var jeg stort set bare hjemme. Jeg skulle sætte nogle ting ind i skabet under trappen i kælderen og fik lyst til at kigge i de garnkasser som står der. (Ja. Jeg har mange skabe med garn! Man skal ikke tænke for meget over det.....) Der fandt jeg de 4 nøgler multifarvet uld som jeg har haft meget længe og som jeg simpelthen ikke har kunnet finde ud af hvad jeg skulle bruge til! 

De kom med op i stuen. Der er ikke rigtig garn nok til noget fornuftigt, men så kom jeg i tanker om det ensfarvede garn fra skabet oppe på overetagen. Der er heller ikke nok garn til noget fornuftigt, men måske kunne man bruge det sammen?

Yesterday I was mostly at home. I was putting away some stuff in my closet beneath the staircase in the basement and felt like looking in the boxes of yarn there. (Yeah. I have a lot of closets with yarn! Don't think too much about it....) There I found the 4 skeins of multi-colored wool that I had forever and that I simply couldn't imagine any use for. 

They came up on my couch. There isn't enough yarn for anything real, but then I remembered the uni-color yarn from my upstairs closet. So that yarn is also too small amount for anything sensible, but maybe I could use them together?

For mange år siden strikkede jeg en Isager model med zig-zag mønster. Jeg fik lyst til at strikke noget lignende, så jeg gik bare i gang. Den starter med en retstrikket firkant til skulderen og så strikker man nedad både for og bag og slår masker op til halsen som helt naturligt får en fin V-form. 

Many years ago I knit a model from Isager with a zig-zag pattern. I felt like knitting something like that, so I just started. It starts with a garter stitch square for the shoulder and then you knit downwards both front and back and cast on extra stitches for the neck that naturally gets a nice V-neck. 

Jeg ved ikke hvor langt garnet rækker. Der er i hvert fald til en vest. Måske til en sweater? Man kan vel håbe? Som I kan se målte jeg på min røde vest for at finde ud af hvor mange masker jeg skulle slå op til halsen. 

Det gik så hurtigt på pind 7 med den lyseblå sweater, så den størrelse kom direkte ud af skabet igen. Selv om jeg ikke så godt kan lide de store pinde. Farverne er virkelig fine, og garnet er virkelig blødt. Jeg tror den bliver god denne her!

I don't know how far the yarn will go. At least there is enough for a vest. Maybe for a sweater? You could hope? As you can see I measured on my red vest to find out how many stitches to cast on for the neck. 

The light blue sweater was so fast on size 7 mm needles, so that size needles came directly out of the closet again. Even though I don't like the very big needles. The colors are so pretty and the yarn is really soft. I do think this one will turn out nice!

Kopien / The copy

Den lyseblå sweater blev færdig i tirsdags. Alting gik faktisk utroligt hurtigt med den! Det tog 16 dage at strikke den fra start til slut, selv om den det meste af tiden bare lå i sofaen og ventede på at jeg kom hjem fra arbejde. Min niece kom sidste år med en gammel sweater som var for slidt og ønsket om en ny magen til. Hun betalte selv garnet. Og så ventede hun....... 

Da sweateren var færdig var den præcis samme størrelse som den gamle. Så vaskede jeg den, og så voksede den et par centimeter på alle leder og kanter! Skræk!

The light blue sweater got done on Tuesday. Everything about it went so fast! It took 16 days from start to finish, although it spent most of the time just lying on the couch, waiting for me to come home from work. My niece came last year with an old sweater that was too worn out and asked me to make another one, just the same. She paid for the yarn. And then she waited.......

When the sweater was done, it was exactly the same size as the old one. Then I washed it, and then it grew a few centimeters in all directions. Horror!

Men takket være min anden niece - søster til hende der skal have den - vovede jeg at komme den nye i tørretumbleren på uldprogram, hvilket fik den tilbage i præcis den rigtige størrelse! Det var et godt trick som jeg virkelig skal huske til en anden god gang! Jeg vidste ikke engang at der fandtes et uldprogram....

Det var utroligt nemt at strikke denne sweater. Takket være Ann Budd's bog. Jeg tjekkede strikkefasthed og gik i gang oppefra. Bogen er fuld af skemaer, så man skal lige fokusere og huske hvilken størrelse og hvilken type sweater man strikker, men når først det kører er det virkelig smart! Det er en god bog til dit bibliotek!

But thanks to my other niece - sister to the one getting the sweater - I dared putting the new one in my drying tumbler using the wool programme, which got it back in the exact right size! That was a great trick that I am going to remember for some other time! I had actually no idea that my tumbler even had a wool programme... 

It was so easy knitting this sweater. Thanks to Ann Budd's book. I checked the gauge and started from the top. The book is filled with tables, so you need to stay focused an remember which size and type you are knitting, but once you are on track it is so smart! This is an excellent book for your library!

Garnet er fra Nordic Yarn Lab og hedder Gullfoss. Det er uld og alpaca og såååååå lækkert! Desværre fuldstændigt udgået. Jeg havde kun de 8 nøgler lyseblåt garn og jeg troede virkelig ikke at der ville være nok. Men det var der! Den vejer kun 375 gram. Den er strikket på pind 7 (ikke min favorit) og jeg er overordentlig tilfreds. Den skal direkte i posten til niecen! 

The yarn is from Nordic Yarn Lab and is called Gullfoss. Wool and alpaca an sooooo yummy! Unfortunately it is totally discontinued. I only had the 8 skeins of light blue and I really did not think it would be enough. But it was! It weighs just 375 grams. I used size 7 mm needles (not my favorite) and I'm so happy with it. It's going straight in the mail for my niece!

Al den sne! / All that snow!

 

Baby!

Søndag brugte jeg ret mange timer i tog igennem en ret stor del af Danmark for at se baby. Med så mange timer i tog ville jeg bruge dem godt, så jeg nåede faktisk at strikke en hel strømpe!

Her er det Vejle Fjord hvor der faktisk var en del is. 

On Sunday, I spent a lot of hours on a train going through a big part of Denmark to see the baby. With so many hours on a train I wanted to spend them well and actually knit an entire sock!

This is Vejle Fjord where there was quite a lot of ice. 

Her er hun så, den lille prinsesse, i det tøj hun fik i julegave. Altså før hun blev født. Så lille og fin og ikke meget for at ligge alene. 

So here she is, the little princess, wearing the clothes she got for Christmas. Before she was born. So tiny and pretty and not too fond of lying by herself.   

Det er altid så hyggeligt med babyer, men endnu mere når man ikke skal undersøge dem men bare kan nyde dem! Hun åbnede skam også øjnene. Lidt. Nogle gange. 

Det var en rigtig god måde at bruge søndagen på, synes jeg! Dejligt at se familien. 

Babies are always so nice, but even more when you don't have to examine them but instead just enjoy them! She even opened her eyes! A bit. Some times. 

I think it was a really good way to spend my Sunday. Lovely to meet the family.

Vinter OL / Winter Olympics

Jeg elsker vinter OL. Alle de der sportsgrene hvor jeg ville brække halsen! Snowboard, kunstskøjteløb, skihop - man kan blive ved! Skal du også se OL? Dagens opskrift er en bedstemorfirkant med de olympiske ringe. God fornøjelse!
 

I love the winter Olympic games. All the sports where I would break my neck! Snowboard, figure skating, ski-jumps - the list goes on! Are you also watching the Olympics? Today's pattern is for a granny square with the Olympic rings. Happy crochet!