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Min ældste nevø har haft fødselsdag i sidste uge. Han havde også et lille ønske til sine strømper - for nogle år siden fik han sådan nogle japanske strømper hvor storetåen og de andre tæer er delt, og det var jo ret nemt at opfylde! 

Han får strømper i Zauberball, bare strikket i glat med de der tæer. Det ser da meget sjovt ud, ikke? Jeg har brugt 70 gram garn. 

My eldest nephew had his birthday last week. He had a small wish for his socks - a few years back he got Japanese socks were the big toe and the other toes are split, and that was quite an easy wish to fulfill! 

He will get socks in Zauberball, plain stockinette stitch with the special toes. It does look fun, right? I used 70 grams of yarn. 

Starten på en reje / The beginning of a shrimp

Min niece har fødselsdag på lørdag. Hun skal fejre det på næste søndag, så med lidt held har jeg cirka halvanden uge til at blive færdig!

Den første strømpes rejer er strikket, og nu strikker jeg så striber hvor man ikke kan se farveskifte. Det er relativt besværligt, men det bliver flot!

Hep på mig......

My niece's birthday is this Saturday. She is having her party next Sunday, so with a bit of luck that leaves me with about a week and a half to finish!

The shrimps of the first sock are done, and right now I'm knitting jog-less stripes. It is kind of slow and difficult, but it will look very nice!

Cheer me onwards......

Totalt rejefarvet! / Totally shrimp-colored!

 

Velkommen! / Welcome!

Min nevø skal have sit første barn i dag. Jeg havde længe planlagt at sy et dynebetræk til babyen i noget fint, afrikansk stof, men det er altså først nu, med babyen lige på trapperne, at jeg fik det syet. 

Jeg tænkte at det ville være fint med bindebåde i samme stof. Det ser smukt ud, ikke? 

De er bare så smalle at det tog en HEL aften at vende retten ud. Sikke en dum ide! 

My nephew is having his first baby today. I've been planning to sew a duvet-cover for the baby in some beautiful, African fabric, but only now, with the baby on the way out, did I sew it. 

I figured that it would look really nice with ties in the same fabric. Pretty, right?

They were so narrow that it took an ENTIRE evening to turn the right side out. Stupid idea!

Men færdigt blev det, og det er bare så fint! Der var ikke meget af det her stof, men nu er det vist blevet ret godt brugt. 

Velkommen til verden, lille fyr!

But it got done, and it's really pretty! There wasn't a whole lot of this fabric, but I do think it's used in the very best way. 

Welcome to our world, little guy!

Stop!

Jeg KAN ikke lide snegle! De æder næsten hvad som helst i min have, og hvor jeg i starten var rimeligt sentimental overfor dem skal jeg nu bare kigge på mine gennemgnaskede planter for at huske mine følelser for dem. Så - hvis denne her grydelap kan hænges op i haven og være advarsel mod snegle, så strikker jeg den gerne. Mønsteret er dette her. 
 

I really DON'T like snails! They eat almost anything in my garden, and while I was quite sentimental in the beginning, now I just have to take a look at my well-chewed plants to remember my feelings towards them. So - if this potholder can be hung in the garden and be a warning against snails, I'll gladly knit it. The pattern is this one. 

Reje-besættelse / Shrimp-obsession

Min yngste niece har snart fødselsdag - faktisk om 6 dage! - og hun har som sædvanligt meget specifikke tanker om sine fødselsdagsstrømper. 

Det skal være nogle med rejer. Så i går kiggede jeg igennem mit strømpegarn og fandt alt hvad der bare havde en smule reje-farve over sig! Jeg var bare ikke tilfreds. 

My youngest niece's birthday is coming up - in 6 days, actually! - and as usual she has some very specific thoughts about her birthday socks. 

She want socks with shrimps. So yesterday I looked through my sock yarn and found anything that had just a little bit of shrimp-color! I wasn't happy with them, though. 

Det er præcis de her strømper hun gerne vil have, og de er jo sådan orange-fersken-lyserøde. Ikke så nemt, vel?

These are the socks she would like, and they are kind of orange-peach-pink. Not that easy a color, right?

Det var jo lørdag og jeg havde fri. Alligevel kom jeg først i garnbutik 10 minutter i lukketid og det eneste garn jeg nåede at finde som lignede en reje bare en lille smule var det her. Ikke rigtig godt nok. 

So it was Saturday and I was off from work. But still I didn't manage to visit a yarn store until 10 minutes before closing time, and the only yarn I found that looked just remotely like a shrimp was this. Not good enough. 

For lige at minde mig selv om den rigtige farve købte jeg dem her. Og spiste dem, altså. De var lækre!

To remind myself of the right color, I bought these. And ate them. They were delicious!

Bagefter gjorde jeg to forsøg med farvning i gryde. Først det lyserøde, derefter noget hvidt fra kælderen. Det ligner bare mere en hummer end en reje. (Og faktisk havde jeg overhovedet ikke behøvet gå i nogen garnbutik når jeg alligevel farvede det!!!!)

Afterwards, I took two tries of dyeing in a pot. First the pink yarn, then some white yarn from my basement. Unfortunately, it looks more like a lobster than a shrimp. (And my trip to the yarn store was totally unnecessary now that I dyed it anyway!!!!)

Så nu gør jeg et sidste forsøg. Ellers må hun få hummerfarven. Hun vil sikkert hellere have den end lyserøde strømper. Wish me luck!

So now I'll do a last try. Or else it will be the lobster-color. I'm sure she would prefer that one over pink socks. Wish me luck!

Weekend!

Det er weekend! Og selv om det er sommerferie så der er flere vagter fordi mange er væk, så har jeg fri lige denne her weekend. Jeg har virkelig glædet mig!

Der er tid til at spise morgenmad udenfor, og ordne sådan det løse. For eksempel skal jeg have fundet rejefarvet garn i dag........

Blomsterne på billedet stod udenfor svømmehallen, for der var jeg i morges. Det er sjældent jeg rigtig gider, men jeg bliver altid glad når jeg har svømmet. 

Har I planer for weekenden? Hvad skal I strikke?

It's the weekend! And although it's vacation time mening more people off from work and more on-call weekends, I'm totally off from work this weekend! I have been looking forward to this!

There will be time to eat breakfast outside and fix some stuff. For instance I have to find shrimp-colored yarn today.....

The flowers on the picture were outside the public swimming pool where I went this morning. I rarely feel like doing it, but I'm always happy I did swim afterwards. 

Do you have plans for the weekend? What are you planning to knit?

Timber Tina's Great Maine Lumberjack Show

Den sidste aften i Maine brugte vi på noget ret usædvanligt. Vi boede ikke langt fra Timber Tina's show, og selvFØLGelig skulle vi se det! 

Selv hunden måtte komme med, så der var ingen undskyldning!

The last evening in Maine was used for something quite unusual. We lived quite close to Timber Tina's show, and of COURSE we had to watch it!

Even the dog was allowed to come, so we had no excuses!

Showet bestod i al sin enkelhed af en opvisning og konkurrence i sådan nogle klassiske skovhugger discipliner. Publikum fik hver sit hold at heppe på, og selv Daisy forstod at hun skulle gø af det røde hold som var vores. 

Det var så underholdende!!!!!!

The show is simply showing what lumberjacks can do and a competition in their classic disciplines. The audience each got a team to cheer on, and even Daisy understood that she had to bark for the red team (our team). 

It was so much fun!!!!!!

Der blev hugget og savet i træstammer og konkurreret i hvem som hurtigst kunne klatre op ad stammen. Det gik virkelig hurtigt!

They chopped and sawed tree trunks and battled in who could climb the trunk most quickly. 

They were really fast!

Børnene kunne også komme op at prøve den store sav, og aldrig har man set en så lang kø af børn som løb frem så hurtigt! De fik alle et diplom. 

The kids could also go on stage to try the big saw, and I've never seen such a long line of kids running to the front that quick! All of them had a diploma. 

Til sidst skulle de balancere på træstammer. (Jeg ved ikke lige hvad det danske ord er!) Jeg ved ikke hvordan de klarede det, for at være ærlig, men alle overlevede. Meget våde. 

Jeg kan faktisk heller ikke huske hvem der vandt. Det var nok det grønne hold. Ikke vores. Men hold op hvor var det bare sjovt! 

Åbenbart er der verdensmesterskaber i alle de her discipliner som man kan følge på Facebook når de er der. Måske skulle man se det engang?

The last discipline was log rolling. I'm not sure how they did this, to be honest, but everybody survived. Very wet, though. 

I'm not really sure who won. I guess it was the green team. Not ours. But this was seriously so much fun!

Apparently they even have world championships in all these disciplines that you can follow on Facebook when it's time. Maybe it's worth watching?

80 % (ish)

Min sommertop har nu færdige øvre dele af både forstykke og bagstykke. Det er lykkedes mig at få farverne nogenlunde over hinanden på begge stykke, hvilket jeg er meget tilfreds med!

Jeg havde 5 nøgler til at starte med, nu har jeg 1 helt og to rester. Der burde være nok til halskanten og den nederste ribkant. Jeg tænker at jeg bare må sørge for at veje garnet så jeg ikke bruger for meget til det ene stykke. Sidste gang gik det ret fint, så det håber jeg på igen. Skal lige komme så langt, altså....

My summertop now has finished upper parts of both the front and the back. I managed to have the colors match quite well on both pieces, and I'm very happy about that!

I had 5 skeins in the beginning, now I have 1 full skein and 2 bits of a skein. It should be enough for the neck and the lower part ribbing. I do think I have to weigh the skein so I will not use too much on one piece. Last time I knit it, it went really well, so I'm hoping for that again. When I get that far, that is....

Søde Daisy / Sweet Daisy

Helt anderledes / Totally different

Ferien er slut og jeg er hjemme igen. Efter en temmelig anderledes uge i en nationalpark! Jeg havde ikke luret at vi skulle ud og vandre og i starten var jeg ikke sådan super begejstret. (Undskyld, Henriette!) Men som dagene gik, krøb det ind under huden på mig, og der var altså helt utroligt smukt! 

Billedet er fra torsdag hvor det regnede, men hvor vi tog en tur i bilen om aftenen og så en masse flotte steder. Jeg tror nok det her er fra i nærheden af Otter Cliff. Helt utroligt fint med tågen i træerne!

My vacation is over and I'm back home. After a totally different week in a national park! I hadn't guessed that we were going out on trails and in the beginning I wasn't that happy. (I'm sorry, Henriette!) But as the days went by, it crept under my skin, and it was so breathtakingly beautiful!

This photo is from Thursday when it was raining, but in the evening we rode the car around the park and saw so many beautiful spots. I do think this is from somewhere near Otter Cliff. So pretty with the fog in the trees!

Om fredagen, vores sidste dag, regnede det ikke. De unge skulle op på "Beehive Trail" hvor man rigtigt skulle klatre, vi gamle tog en anden sti op til toppen og denne her smukke Bowl Pond. Så fint med kvækkende frøer! 

Da vi så var kommet ned igen fik jeg tilbud om croissant og café. Men sagde nej tak!

On Friday, our last day, it did not rain. The young ones were climbing the "Beehive Trail" where they really needed to climb, and us older ones took another trail to the top to see this beautiful Bowl Pond. So pretty with the frogs quacking! 

Once we got back down, I had the offer of finding a café and a croissant. But said no thanks!

I stedet tog jeg med min svoger og nevø på et allersidste hike. Tænk engang! Det havde jeg ikke troet da vi kom om søndagen!

Det var noget hårdere end det første, og hunden og jeg overlevede til dels på blåbær, som der var rigtig mange af!

Instead I went with my brother-in-law and nephew on a very last hike. Can you imagine? I would never have guessed that when I arrived on Sunday!

It was somewhat harder than the first one, and the dog and I survived partly due to the blueberries. There were a lot of them!

Turen var dog SÅ meget det værd. Her ses en "boble" på Bubble Rock. Utroligt som den kan hænge ud over kanten uden at falde ned! 

Der var SÅ mange klipper og det var helt vildt smukt. Jeg tror godt jeg kunne tænke mig at komme tilbage, med fare for at skulle på flere vandreture, altså. 

Eller også skal jeg tage en tur op i Sverige? Der skulle være nogle steder som ligner!

Der kommer nok flere billeder fra USA......

But the trip was SO much worth it! This is a "bubble" on Bubble Rock. Incredible how it can hang over the edge without falling down! 

We saw SO many cliffs, and it was incredibly beautiful. I do think I would like to go back, although there would be a real danger of more hikes.....

Or maybe I should go up somewhere in Sweden? I heard there are places like this!

There will be more photos from the US, I'm afraid......

Nervepirrende / Nerve-wrecking

Dagens opskrift er en glasbrik med det amerikanske flag. Det er bare fordi - altså - hvad SKAL der ske med det amerikanske valg? Det er jo helt umuligt at forestille sig hvad der sker frem til valget og hvem som går af med sejren. For nogle dage siden troede jeg det største problem var at Biden absolut vil stille op igen, men så kom attentatet på Trump. Nå. I det mindste kan du få noget at stille dit glas på når du trænger til et glas vin. Det kan man komme til! Mønsteret er dette. 
 

Today's pattern is a coaster with Stars and Stripes. Just because - you know - WHAT will happen with the American election? It's totally impossible to imagine what is happening before the election or who the winner will be. A few days ago I thought the biggest problem was the Biden stubbornly refuses to step down as the candidate. Then came the attack on Trump. Well. At least this is something to place your glass on when you need a bit of wine. It's needed sometimes! The pattern is this one. 

Hvordan gik det med at strikke? / So how did the knitting go?

Jeg kan mere eller mindre høre hvordan tankerne løber løbsk. Men det gik jo sådan at jeg lavede halsen om 3-4 gange og brugte virkelig meget tid på det. Derfor er jeg ikke nået så langt som jeg ville. 

Strømperne prøvede jeg at strikke ude ved bålet. I mørket. Dårlig ide!

Så turen gik hjemover med disse sølle resultater. Det var dog en skøn ferie. Virkelig! Selvom der ikke var så meget tid til at strikke!!!!!

I can hear your minds wondering about this. But it turned out that I had to re-do the neck 3-4 times and spent a lot of time on that. So I never got as far as I hoped and planned. 

The socks came out to the campfire for some evening-knitting in the dark. Bad idea!

Så I went home with these sorry results. But the vacation was wonderful. Honestly! Even though I didn't knit as much as I thought I would!!!!!

Stof og garn / Fabric and yarn

I skal selvfølgelig ikke snydes for at se hvad jeg har købt! Ikke så meget garn denne gang, og kun bomuld. Dels fra JoAnn (til et håndklæde, tænker jeg), dels fra den fine garnbutik i New York, 2 bundter fint, håndfarvet bomuld. 

Bogen er en opskrift på det fineste hæklede tæppe! Det startede som en KAL og blev så en lille bog. 

Of course you need to see what I bought! Not a lot of yarn this time, and only cotton. I bought Sugar'n'Cream from JoAnn (for a towel, I think), and from the nice yarn shop in New York I bought 2 skeins of pretty, hand-dyed cotton. The book is a pattern for a very pretty crochet blanket. It started out as a KAL and turned into a book. 

Men STOF har jeg meget af!!!!! Papegøjestof fra JoAnn (som jeg havde kigget på hjemmefra) og hele to slags stof til skjorter til min nevø. Han valgte det med noderne, og så kom hans søster i tanker om at han også skal have en med logo fra det college han skal på. Som en overraskelse.....

Desuden alt det fine, afrikanske stof fra New York, og her fra Maine både stof med nationalparker og lidt blåbærstof. Jeg kunne ikke lade det ligge..... Det bliver spændende hvad det bliver til!

But I bought a lot of FABRIC!!!!! Parrot-fabric from JoAnn (I checked it out beforehand) and two different kinds for shirts for my nephew. He picked the one with notes, and then his sister suggested that he should have one with the colors from the college he will go to soon. As a surprise.....

Then all the pretty, African fabric from New York, and here from Maine both fabric with the national parks and a bit of blueberry fabric. I couldn't leave it...... Will be fun to see what this ends up as!