Lidt langsomt / A little slow

Selv om min nieces sweater er på meget tykke pinde, så går det lidt langsommere end jeg forventede. Maskerne er presset godt sammen på pinden og jeg skal hele tiden holde øje med alle tre tråde. 

Men nu er den næsten en halv snoning længere (hvilket er en hel del med den størrelse snoninger!) og den er virkelig fin! 

Although my niece's sweater is made on very big needles, it's still a bit slower than I expected. 

The stitches are squeezed together on the needle and I have to make sure all 3 threads are included. 

But now it's almost half a cable longer (which means quite a lot with this size of cables!) and it's looking really good!

Kaos? / Chaos?

Dagens opskrift er ikke en opskrift, men mere en sjov idé! Sidste år strikkede jeg det her sjal til en kollega. Et Parrot sjal af Helga Isager. Men jeg lavede striberne tilfældigt - jeg trak en farve op ad posen og strikkede så mange rækker som jeg slog med en terning. Nu har jeg så set en idé på Instagram som er lidt på samme måde, bare som tæppe! Du vælger så mange farver du vil have og skriver de hæklemasker ned som du vil bruge. Derefter trækker du en farve og en maske og hækler så mange rækker som du slår med en terning. Det hedder chaosblanket. Sjovt, ikke? Man får lyst til at gå i gang!
 

Today's pattern is not a pattern but more like a fun idea! Last year I made this shawl for a colleague. A Parrot shawl by Helga Isager. But I made the stripes random - I drew a color from a bag and rolled a dice for the number of rows. So now I saw this idea on Instagram that is a bit like that, just as a blanket! You pick as many colors as you like and write down the different crochet stitches that you want to use. Then you draw a color and a stitch and then roll a dice to see how many rows to crochet. It's called chaosblanket. Fun, right? Makes you want to start right away!

Mysteriet er løst! / The mystery is solved!

Jeg har været væk fra min have i en lille uge, og da jeg i går kom hjem kunne jeg se at min cherrytomater levede op til den tomat jeg tog frø fra! De er blevet fint gul-orange i bunden og de smager lækkert! Der er taget frø fra til næste år....

En anden overraskelse var at de sidste kirsebær på træet er blevet helt mørkerøde og SÅ lækre! De stakkels kirsebær har aldrig nået at blive helt modne fordi jeg altid har spist dem lidt for tidligt.... Gad vide om jeg overhovedet kan huske det til næste år?

I have been away from my garden for almost a week, and when I got back home yesterday I could see that my cherry-tomatoes really live up to the tomato I took the seeds from! They have turned a pretty yellow-orange color at the bottom and are delicious! I already saved sees for next year.....

Another surprise was that the last of my cherries on the tree have turned dark red and are SO yummy! The poor cherries have never gotten the chance to be ripe because I have eaten them a bit too soon.... I wonder if I will even remember that for next year?

Kreativ fortolkning / Creative interpretation

Min top til mig selv er kommet så langt at jeg godt kunne se at jeg har fået rigeligt med garn! Derfor bestemte jeg mig til at lave ærmer og hals inden resten af kroppen bliver færdig. Jeg er kommet så langt på kroppen at jeg havde brugt cirka halvdelen af garnet, og bestemte mig for at det var rigeligt! Derfor sidder strikkepinden i kroppens masker og så lavede jeg først hals, så ærme. Nu venter ærme nummer to og så strikker jeg simpelthen kroppen så lang som garnet rækker. Det skal nok blive godt! 

Jeg synes det er lettest at måle på en bluse som passer godt i forhold til ærmelængde og kropslængde, men det ser rigtig fint ud! 

My top for me has come so far along that I can see I got plenty of yarn! So I decided to make the sleeves and neck before finishing the body. I have come this far on the body and used about half of the yarn, and then i decided I had plenty! Which is why the circular needle is left on the body's stitches and then I made first the edging on the neck, then the sleeve. The second sleeve is waiting and then I simply make the body as long as the yarn goes. I'm sure it will be fine!

I do think it's easier to measure on a sweater that fits nicely, both the sleeve length and length of the body, and it does look right! 

Garn i Køge / Yarn in Køge

Sidste torsdag var jeg i Køge. Det regnede og min telefon løber hurtigt tør for strøm, så hele min ide om rigtigt at se noget af Køge blev ikke til så meget. Jeg ladede op på biblioteket men nåede også at besøge hele to garnbutikker! (Jeg måtte jo søge ly for regnen!)

Der ligger to garnbutikker lige overfor hinanden. Simpelthen! Først gik jeg i Garnzonen, en meget hyggelig, helt skæv butik! Jeg købte de to fine strikkehæfter. Bagefter gik jeg over gaden til Garnhuset. Der købte jeg lidt bomuld. Der var ellers noget meget fint selvstribende uld, men jeg nåede heldigvis at huske at jeg ikke mangler uld.... Det er ret vildt med to garnbutikker lige overfor hinanden! De har forskellige mærker og lidt forskellig profil. Jeg håber de begge ligger der længe!

Last Thursday I went to Køge. It was raining and my phone's battery is old, so my idea of seeing Køge did not work out so well. I charged at the library but also managed to visit two yarn shops! (I had to seek shelter from the rain!)

There are two yarn shops in the same street. Really! First, I went to Garnzonen, a very nice shop where nothing is straight. I bought the two pattern books. Afterwards, I crossed the street to Garnhuset. 

I bought some cotton. There was some really nice, self-striping wool, but I managed to remember how I do not need anymore wool... It's very unusual with two yarn shops across the street from each other! They sell different yarn and their profile is a bit different. I do hope both of them will stay there very long!

Spejlæg? / Fried egg?

Denne her bog købte jeg inden jul, og så har den bare ligget og kigget på mig. Jeg synes det går utroligt dårligt med at læse bøger, men pludselig skete det! 

Bogen handler om Troels som får en blodprop i hjernen og har glemt hvordan man laver spejlæg. 

Man tror det så er det vigtige i forhold til handlingen. Det er det IKKE! 

Det er en bog som overrasker og virkelig vokser på en. Den handler meget om hemmeligheder, men man bliver virkelig overrasket! Den kan godt anbefales!

This book is one I bought before Christmas, and it has just been lying around, staring at me. Reading books is not anything I do at the moment, but suddenly it happened!

The book is about Troels who suffers from a stroke and forgets how to fry and egg. 

You might thing that this is the important thing in the book. It is NOT!
It's a surprising book that really grows on you. It's about secrets, but the book is so surprising! Really recommended. 

De kombinationer jeg ikke valgte / The combinations that I did not pick

 

Planlægning af sjal / Planning a shawl

Til oktober skal min kollega forsvare sin ph.d. Hun glæder sig MEGET og det er helt sikkert at hun også forventer og glæder sig til et sjal! 

Mønsteret har jeg valgt for et stykke tid siden. Det skal være Midsommersjalet 2026 af den dygtige Karen Lauge. Jeg købte mønsteret da det kom ud, men er selvfølgelig ikke begyndt. Fordi jeg skulle finde det rigtige garn! 

Denne her kombination går jeg med. Noget håndfarvet og så 5 farver blå (hvor den ene er hvid, jo så....).  Jeg overdriver ikke, når jeg siger at jeg var i ALLE min skabe, poser og kasser med garn for at finde lige de her farver! Helt nede i kælderen fandt jeg de tre øverste blå. Der er endda fin kontrast når billedet laves sort/hvid. Jeg tror nok det skal blive godt!

In October, my colleague is having her ph.d. defense. She is VERY excited and I'm totally sure that she is also looking forward to and expecting to get a shawl!

The pattern was picked a while ago. I'm making the 2026 Midsummer shawl by the skilled designer Karen Lauge. I bought the pattern when it was released, but of course I did not start. I needed to pick the right yarn!

It will be this combination. Some hand-dyed and then 5 shades of blue (one of them white, obviously....). I am not exaggerating when I tell you I looked in ALL my closets, bags and boxes of yarn to find this very combination! Down in the basement I found the three top blues. They even have a nice contrast when the photo is changed to black and white. I do think this is going to be pretty!

Varme hænder / Warm hands

Ser du Tour de France? Det gør jeg ikke. Men derfor kan denne her blog jo godt handle om det! Eller i hvert fald om cykler! Dagens opskrift er vanter til cykelstyret. Find den her. 
 

Do you watch Tour de France? I don't. But that doesn't mean we can't discuss it here on the blog! Or at least focus on bikes! Today's pattern is for mittens for the bar. Find it here. 

Rundt / In the round

De sidste par dage her har jeg bare været hjemme. Uden at have nogle aftaler overhovedet! Det har været rigtig skønt og jeg har faktisk brugt noget tid på at se tv og strikke. Lige det jeg altid drømmer om! Så nu er sweateren til niecen samlet og strikkes rundt! 

Jeg håber jeg når en lille smule mere, men så bliver den lagt til side næste uge når jeg skal til Sønderjylland. Det er virkelig dejligt at være kommet så langt her!

These last few days I have just been at home. Without any plans or appointments! It has been really lovely and I have actually spent some time watching tv and knit. Just what I'm always dreaming off! So by now the sweater for my niece has started to be worked in the round!

I do hope I get a little bit further, but then it will be put aside for the next week when I'm going to Southern Jutland. It is really great to have come this far!

Læs hele mønsteret / Read the entire pattern

Nå. Lige efter jeg skrev det forrige indlæg. Altså LIGE efter! Opdagede jeg at der er et diagram i opskriften som meget tydeligt viser at jeg havde strikket forkert. Så jeg trevlede op ned til den første snoning og gik i gang igen! 

Nu ser den sådan her ud. Det er rigtig flot og virkelig blødt! Det er jo på pind 7, og derfor er jeg nået lige så langt igen på bare nogle timer. Nu skal jeg bare fortsætte!

Well. Right after I wrote the last blog post. You now RIGHT after! I found out that there is a chart in the pattern that very clearly shows that I made it wrong. So I unraveled down to the first cable and started over again!

Now it looks like this. It's really pretty and so soft! It's made with 7 mm needles, which is why I have made it this far again in just a few hours. Now I just need to continue!

2 snoninger / 2 cables

Sweateren til min niece er kommet LIDT længere. Jeg har nu lavet snoning to gange. Jeg er lidt i tvivl om det bliver rigtigt eller forkert - altså da jeg skulle lave den første snoning i midten var jeg ret sikker på at de næste to snoninger først skulle med når de var blevet lange nok. Blandt andet fordi jeg syntes det så sådan ud på billedet. 

Nu er jeg ikke så sikker. Men jeg synes det ville se lidt mærkeligt ud hvis jeg havde lavet snoninger over de 3 midterste da jeg gjorde det første gang. Flot ser det ud, ihvertfald!

The sweater for my niece has come a BIT farther. I have now made the cable twice. I have started to doubt if it is right or wrong - when I was making the first cable in the middle I felt quite sure that the next two cables would only be twisted when they were long enough. One of the reasons was that I thought the photo looked like that. 

By now I'm not too sure. But I do think it would look a bit weird if I did the cables over the 3 middle parts when twisting the first time. It does look good, don't you think?

Domkirken i Lund / Lund Cathedral

Domkirken i Lund er et spændende sted! Som regel går jeg forbi udenfor, men i mandags var jeg indenfor. Domkirken var jo i allerhøjeste grad dansk da den blev bygget i 1100-tallet. Der er et meget fint, astronomisk ur fra 1300-tallet som viser tid, dato, månefase og stjernetegn. Vældigt kompliceret!

The Cathedral in Lund is a very exciting place! Usually I just walk past it, but on Monday I went inside. So the Cathedral was very much Danish when it was build in the around 1100 A.D. There is a very beautiful, astronomic clock that was build at the end of the 1300s showing time, date, moon-phase and zodiac signs. Very complex!

To gange om dagen løfter de to mænd deres trompet og spiller, og de vise mænd går forbi jomfru Maria og Jesusbarnet. Det fik jeg lige set og det er virkelig fint! Jeg forstår slet ikke hvordan man kan få sådan noget til at fungere! 

Twice a day the two men lift their trumpets and play, and the wise men pass the virgin Mary and baby Jesus. I got to see that and it's really an experience! I do not get how you can get things like this to work!

En gang jeg kom forbi var der koncert. Akustikken er fantastisk! Det er virkelig en smuk kirke. 

I kirkens nordlige tårn er biskoppen Peder Winstrup begravet. Han er en meget velbevaret mumie som først lå i krypten, men i 2014 kom op og blev undersøgt inden han blev genbegravet i tårnet. Da tårnene blev renoveret for et par år siden kom han ned fra tårnet men blev pænt sat på plads igen. Han var først dansk, så svensk biskop i sin levetid og var med til at starte Lunds universitet. 

Once I passed by there was a concert. The acoustics are amazing! It is such a beautiful church. 

In the Northern tower the bishop Peder Winstrup is buried. He is a very well-kept mummy that was first lying in the crypt, but in 2014 he was taken out and investigated before he was re-buried in the tower. When the towers were renovated a few years back he came down but was put back afterwards. He was first the Danish bishop, then the Swedish and he was part of building the Lund university. 

Men nu til cliffhangeren! Da jeg skulle til samtale i Lund for 11 år siden var jeg godt nok noget nervøs. Hvordan skulle det gå? Jeg gik en lille tur ind i domkirken og så det danske flag og tænkte at det føltes lidt tryggere! 

Men HVORFOR hænger Dannebrog der? Da Dannebrog i 1219 faldt ned fra himlen i Tallin så vi fik vores flag, var det ærkebiskop Andreas Sunesen som modtog det! Det er så længe siden at han overtog jobbet som ærkebiskop i Lund fra selveste Absalon! For, ja, det var dengang Lund var dansk og alt det her var en meget vigtig del af Danmark. 

Er det ikke vildt?

But now for the cliffhanger! When I was applying for the job in Lund 11 years ago, I was quite nervous. How would it be? I went into the cathedral and saw the Danish flag and actually thought it felt a bit more like home! 

But WHY is Dannebrog hanging there? When Dannebrog (our flag) fell from heaven in Tallin in 1219, giving us our flag, it was the archbishop Andreas Sunesen who received it! It is so many years ago that he actually got the job as archbishop from no other than Absalon! (The founder of Copenhagen.) Because, yeah, that was when Lund was Danish and all this was a very important part of Denmark. 

Isn't it mind-blowing?

Den tid på året / That time of the year

 

Lund uden arbejde / Lund without working

I går var første dag i min ferie. Jeg brugte den på at tage til Lund! Jeg skulle klippes og fik en dag ud af det! 

Det med frisøren begyndte under Covid da alle frisører i Danmark havde lukket og jeg til sidst bookede en tid i Sverige. Og nu er det bare nemmere. Det er tæt på stationen, og de klipper mig pænt! Jeg er bare ikke så god til at bestille tid i god tid, så nu blev det i ferien! Efter en god gang klipning gik jeg lige en tur i garnbutikken på vej over til Mui Gong hvor jeg fik Kung Pao Chicken. Det var SÅ lækkert, og det er nok første gang at nogen har taget billede af bomuldsgarn med maden.....

Derfra gik jeg i "Kulturen", et frilandsmuseum midt i Lund. Det ligger på begge sider af en gade jeg har gået på rigtig mange gange, og jeg har længe tænkt det ville være fint at se! Det er et rigtig fint museum. Det er altså vildt hvordan livet var for bare 200 år siden og hvor fattigt folk boede! Dagene gik mere eller mindre med at sikre sig at familien overlevede det næste år. Fremtidsudsigterne for unge mennesker er virkelig helt anderledes i dag! Jeg så også en udstilling om Slaget ved Lund i 1676. Det er helt umuligt at forestille sig 9000 dræbte på en enkelt dag i området der. 

Til sidst var jeg lige forbi domkirken og fandt ud af hvorfor det danske flag hænger der. Det må I høre mere om en anden gang!

Yesterday was the first day of my vacation. I spent it going to Lund! I was getting a haircut and decided to make it a day!

The haircutting thing started during Covid, when all hairdressers in Denmark were closed and I ended up booking an appointment in Sweden. And now it's just the easy thing to do. It's very close to the railway station and it looks nice! I'm just not very good booking an appointment weeks before I need it, so now I did it during my vacation! After my haircut I visited the yarn shop on the way to Mui Gong where I had Kung Pao Chicken. SO yummy, and I guess it was the first time ever anyone took a photo of cotton with the food.....

Then I went to "Kulturen", an open-air museum in the middle of Lund. There is a street going through it with walls on both sides, and I walked that street and wanted to visit! It's a really nice museum. It's crazy how life was just 200 years ago and how poor people were living. They spend their days making sure their family would survive the next year. The future looks really different for young people our days! I also saw an exhibition about the Battle of Lund in 1676. It's impossible imagining 9000 people killed in just one day in that area. 

I ended up visiting the cathedral and found out why the Danish flag is hanging there. More about that subject some other time!

 

Vand giver liv / Water gives life

Den sidste uges tid tror jeg at alle vi europæere er blevet mindet om hvor vigtigt det er med vand! Vand at drikke, vand at blive afkølet i, vand at vaske sveden af med. Dagens opskrift handler også om vand. Flasker. En virkelig fin havfruehaleflaskeholder! Hækl den før de andre. Mønsteret finder du her. 
 

During this past week, all we Europeans have been reminded of how important water is! Water for drinking, to cool off in, water to wash away the sweat. Today's pattern is also about water. Bottles. A really pretty mermaid-tail-bottle-cozy! Crochet it before everybody else. The pattern can be found here. 

Ferie! / Vacation!

I dag starter min "rigtige" ferie - den lange! I går var jeg på arbejde. Det var VARMT! Men jeg gik en dejlig tur og duftede til alle roserne. Der er rigtig fint i Lund!

Mens jeg svedte var alle tog til Danmark aflyste hele aftenen, så selv om det var smeltende varmt på patienthotellet i nat var jeg nu glad nok for først at skulle hjem nu til morgen når togene kørte igen. 

Det regner og tordner, men det gør mig ingenting. Det er så dejligt at have fri! 

Today my "real" vacation starts - the long part! Yesterday I was working. It was HOT! But I took a nice walk and smelled all the roses. Lund is really pretty!

While I was sweating, all the trains to Denmark were cancelled all evening, so although it felt like melting at the patient hotel during the night, I was happy that I was only going home today when the trains were on track (so to speak!) again. 

It's rain and thunder, but it doesn't bother me. It's nice not having to do stuff!

Work in Progress

De strømper jeg er startet på er virkelig fine! De er sjove med restegarn. Designeren hedder StoneKnits og tjek hende lige - hun har virkelig mange flotte strømpemønstre! 

Jeg plejer ikke at strikke strømper med flerfarvestrik, men de her er altså fine. Og nu skal der være et godt stykke med den grønne bundfarve. 

The socks I started are really pretty! The are fun to make with scraps. The designer is called StoneKnits and just check her out - she has sos many really beautiful sock patterns!

Usually I don't make socks with patterns like this, but these are so nice. And now I will knit quite a bit using the green main color. 

Stadig mystisk / Still strange

Mine "stribede" tomater ser sådan ud nu. Det er altså spændende om de ender med at være gule og brune som dem jeg tog frø fra! Lige nu aner jeg det ikke!

De store gule tomater er godt på vej og der er også nogle bittesmå bøftomater. Jeg håber det bliver en god høst!

My "striped" tomatoes look like this right now. It's so exciting if they end up being yellow and brown like the ones I got the seeds from! Right now I have no idea!

The big yellow tomatoes are coming along nicely and there are even some tiny little beef tomatoes. I do hope the harvest will be good!

Meget stor / Very big

Jeg har jo lovet at strikke en sweater til min yngste niece. Hun har omhyggeligt fundet et mønster som både er på store pinde (så det går hurtigt) og er interessant (så jeg ikke keder mig!), jeg har købt garn og jeg har endda lavet strikkeprøve! Mønsteret er også også printet ud, så der var ligesom ikke så meget andet at gøre end bare at gå i gang! 

Den strikkes på pind 7. Jeg har kun lavet en enkelt snoning, men den er GIGANTISK! Det går forholdsvist hurtigt (bortset fra at det er svært at tage med i byen og derfor kun kan strikkes på sofaen) og det skal nok blive spændende!

So I promised to knit a sweater for my youngest niece. She has carefully found a pattern that is made on huge needles (to make it fast) and is interesting (so I will not get bored!), I bought the yarn and I even made a swatch and checked my gauge! The pattern is printet so there was really nothing left to do but start knitting!

It's on 7 mm needles. I have only made one cable so far, but it is GIGANTIC! It's really fast, actually, (apart from the fact that it's hard to bring with me so it can be made sitting on my couch) and it will be really interesting!

Så fin! / So pretty!

 

15

Om præcis en uge har min svoger fødselsdag. I USA. Hans strømper er klar til at komme med min søster over Atlanterhavet og være klar til at blive åbnet på dagen! 

De her strømper var noget af en mundfuld. Jeg syntes mønsteret var fint med små snoninger over det hele, men det var VIRKELIG mange snoninger! Over det HELE! Det var totalt en fejl at tage dem med på kongres, især da de slukkede lyset i salen den første aften. Men selv med lyset tændt skulle jeg kigge ret meget. 

In exactly one week it's my brother-in-law's birthday. In the US. His socks are ready to go with my sister across the Atlantic ocean and be ready for the right day!

These socks were somewhat of a mouth full. I did think the pattern with small cables all over looked really pretty, but there were LOT'S of cables! ALL OVER! It was such a mistake bringing them to the congress, especially when the light was turned off on the first evening. But even with the lights on I had to look at what I did. 

Men altså - resultatet er rigtig godt! De er fine og elastiske, OG de er faktisk blevet helt ens! 

Mønsteret hedder Ric-Rac og skulle egentlig strikkes på noget større pinde, hvilket selvfølgelig havde betydet færre masker og snoninger. Så langt tænkte jeg ikke. 

Garnet er Opal, pindene er 2,5 mm og vægten er 70 gram. Jeg håber han kan lide dem! 

But who cares when the result is really good! They are pretty and elastic and actually identical!

The pattern is called Ric-Rac and is supposed to be made on bigger needles, which of course would have meant fewer stitches and cables. I did not think that far.

The yarn is Opal, the needles 2.5 mm and the weight 70 grams. I do hope he will like them! 

Havesnegle / Garden snails

Der er ikke så mange snegle i haven i år. Men der ER nogle! Hvad der vokser i min have er til dels noget sneglene bestemmer. Sneglene spiser peberplanter, men ikke tomatplanter. Så gæt, hvad der vokser bedst i min have! Dagens opskrift er på babystrømper. Du bestemmer selv om de mest ligner pebre eller tomater. Opskriften er her. 
 

This year, there are not that many snails in my garden. But some are there! What grows in my garden is partly decided by the snails. The snails loves pepper-plants, but not tomato-plants. Today's pattern is for baby socks. You decide whether they look like peppers or tomatoes. The pattern is this one.  

Næste par / Next pair

Min yngste niece har fødselsdag om en måned. Hun ELSKER sine strikkede strømper! Og hun elsker også når jeg gør noget ud af dem. Så i går fandt jeg mønster og garn til nogle strømper jeg håber hun kan lide! Fortsættelse følger.....

My youngest niece's birthday is in a month. She LOVES her knitted socks! And she loves when I do something special with them. So yesterday I found pattern and yarn for socks that I do hope she likes! To be continued......

Nederdel / Skirt

I går fik jeg lyst til at sy en nederdel. En lidt pænere, længere nederdel. Så jeg gik på jagt i stofskabet og fandt det her fine stof som er lavet i Ghana, men købt på udsalg i JoAnn. (Jeg SAVNER den butik!)

Jeg bestemte mig for en ret enkel model med elastik og lommer. 

Yesterday, I suddenly felt like sewing a skirt. A longer, a bit more formal skirt. So I went on fabric hunt in my stash and found this pretty fabric that was made in Ghana but bought on sale in JoAnn. ( I MISS that shop!) I decided on a simple model with elastic waistband and pockets. 

Sådan ser den ud! Den går næsten ned til anklerne og kan bruges med en del forskellige farver. Stoffet er så pænt og ikke helt så vildt som en del af det andet stof jeg har. Den skal nok blive brugt!

This is what it looks like! Almost down to the ankles and it can be used with quite a lot of colors. The fabric is so pretty and not as wild as a lot of the other fabric I have. This will be used!

Midsommer! / Midsummer!

I dag fejrer svenskerne midsommar, og jeg har fri! Det er dejligt vejr og føles endelig som sommer, så det er virkelig skønt. 

Toppen til mig er nu blevet samlet så jeg strikker rundt. Den er så fin!

Today the Swedes celebrate midsommar and I'm off from work! The weather is lovely and finally it feels like summer, so that's just great. 

The top for me is so far that I'm knitting in the round now. It's very pretty!

Denne uge, altså.... / Seriously, this week....

Efter en relativt kold start på sommeren er der endelig ved at være spiselige ting i haven! Der har været nogle lækre jordbær (men det er ikke den største høst i år...) og i tirsdags fik jeg så de første hindbær. Glæder mig til en lang sommer med hindbær!

After a relatively cold start of summer, my garden is finally coming up with edible stuff! There have been a few delicious strawberries (but not the biggest harvest this year....) and on Tuesday I had the first raspberries. I am looking forward to a long summer of raspberries!

I den anden ende af skalaen var min tur hjem fra arbejde i går. Der var ingen tog over broen, MEN der var togbusser som kørte helt utroligt godt fra Sverige til Danmark! Der var så til gengæld ingen tog fra lufthavnen til Tårnby, hvor min cykel stod, så det blev sen aftensmad. Til gengæld fik jeg et fint billede af broen ovenpå. 

Men altså - hvor fint det end er, så HÅBER jeg at alle ledninger er i orden til i dag så togene kører!

On the other end of the scale was my trip home from work yesterday. There were no trains across the bridge, BUT they had busses ready that drove fast and well from Sweden to Denmark! But then there were no trains from the airport to Tårnby, where my bike was, so it was a very late dinner. On the other hand I got a nice photo of the bridge upstairs. 

But really - nice or not, I really HOPE all cables have been put back in place for the day so the trains work!

Jeg forventer stadig at de bliver stribede / I still expect them to become striped

 

En nødsituation! / An emergency!

Min yngste niece strikker. Ret meget, faktisk, nu hvor hun er i gang igen! Hun strikker en sweater til sin kæreste. Oppefra og ned med raglanudtagninger, men ved den ene raglan var udtagninger rykket en maske. Så jeg kom på arbejde! 

Heldigvis gik det over al forventning med en hæklenål så alle masker og udtagninger endte hvor de skulle være. Niecen var glad for at hun ikke skulle trevle op, og jeg var bare glad for at det gik så relativt nemt i meget mørkt garn!

My youngest niece is knitting. Quite a lot, actually, now that she started again! She is knitting a sweater for her boyfriend. Top-down with raglan increases, but at one of the places the increases had moved a stitch. So I got to work!

Fortunately, everything went better than expected with a crochet hook and all stitches an increases ended up where they were supposed to be. The niece was happy that she didn't have to unravel, and I was just very happy that it went quite easy in this very dark yarn!

Jordbær! / Strawberries!

Lige nu er de første jordbær ved at komme frem. Det er en kort fornøjelse, men virkelig dejlig! Jeg har lidt jordbær i haven. De er lækre! Dagens opskrift er på en hæklet pose med jordbær. Du kan helt sikkert også bruge mønsteret til noget andet hvis du vil! Du finder det her. 
 

Right now the first strawberries are coming. It's a very short-lived pleasure, but so lovely! I have a few strawberries in my garden. They are delicious! Today's pattern is for a crochet tote with strawberries. The pattern can certainly be used for other things as well if you want! You can find it here. 

Kaktusser / Cacti

I går babysittede jeg lidt. Pigerne fra Haslev. De havde ikke været her så længe før den ældste spurgte om jeg ville sy noget til hende? En t-shirt? 

Hun er ved at være lang, så jeg endte med et mønster fra Ottobredesign på en top med korte ærmer som burde kunne fungere i almindelig, fast bomuld. Hun valgte stof med kaktusser og så måtte jeg jo bare komme i gang!

Yesterday I was babysitting for a while. The girls from Haslev. They hadn't been here for very long before the oldest one asked if I would sew something for her? A t-shirt?

She is growing very long, so I ended up picking a pattern from Ottobredesign for a top with short sleeves that should work in plain cotton. She picked fabric with cacti and then all I had to do was getting started!

Det var rimeligt hurtigt at sy og resultatet blev rigtig godt! Den passede hende perfekt og sidder ret godt, så jeg var svært tilfreds! Det var hun også, forresten. 

Lillesøsteren ville så gerne have en magen til i noget andet stof, MEN hun vil være her når jeg syr. Så det må vel blive et nyt besøg!

It was quite fast to sew and the result was really good. It fit her perfectly and looks really good on her, so I was very happy! She was happy too, by the way. 

Her little sister would like on in the same pattern but different fabric, BUT she wants to be present when I sew. So I guess we have to plan for another visit!

Det bedste sted / The best place

Der er mange fine steder man kan spise i København, men en af mine yndlingsting er at sidde på trappen ved Ofelia plads og spise pizza....... Der er den fineste udsigt, der er sjældent fyldt med mennesker og jeg sidder der med mine yndlingsmennesker. Jeg kan ikke forestille mig noget bedre sted!

There are so many great places to eat in Copenhagen, but one of my favorite things is sitting on the stairs at Ofelia place and eat pizza... The view is so pretty, it's very rarely crowded and I usually sit there with my favorite people. I cannot imagine anything better!

I går sad jeg der med min søster. Der kom et vindpust og væltede pizzabakken så der kom en del salat som var faldet ud. Mågen kom for at rydde op. Troede vi!

Men måger spiser ikke salat! Åbenbart! Her sidder den og ser fornærmet ud. 

Jeg håber jeg når forbi igen i løbet af sommeren!

Yesterday, I was there with my sister. There was a blow of wind and the pizza case fell over leaving a lot of salad that fell out. This seagull came to clean up. At least we thought so!

But seagulls don't eat salad! Apparently! Here it is, looking offended. 

I do hope I can go there again some time this summer!

Museu da ÁGUA

Da min kongres var afsluttet i Lissabon havde jeg en halv dag før jeg skulle hjem. Min kollega ville gerne følges, men jeg ville på museum. Hun ville vandre. Så det gjorde vi så hver for sig! 

Jeg ville finde et sådan rimeligt lille, sjovt museum og endte med at tage hen til akvædukten på billedet her. Altså - et museum om vand ville være sjovt, ikke?

When my congress ended in Lisbon I had half a day before going home. My colleague wanted to do stuff together, but I wanted to go to a museum. She wanted to take a long walk. So we did! Separately! 

I wanted to find a quite small, fun museum and ended up going to the aqueduct on the photo. You know - a museum about water sounded fun! Right?

Det kostede kun 4 Euro at komme ind. Prisen burde måske have nedjusteret mine forventninger lidt! 

It only cost 4 Euros to enter. The low price might have adjusted my expectations to a lower level!

Ej, det var rigtig fint at se! Bygget i 1700-tallet for at sørge for vand til byen. Det fineste byggeri med en lille smule hældning så vandet løb den rigtige vej. 

Man kunne gå inde i akvædukten eller på en af siderne (med forskellig udsigt). Det var det. 

To be honest, it was really amazing! Build in the 1700's to make sure the city had water. Very nicely build with a slight slope to make sure the water ended up in the right place. 

You can walk inside the aqueduct or on either sight (with different views). That's it.  

Inde i bygningen var der forskellige skilte med oplysninger. For eksempel det her. Skal vi bare sige at det var en lille smule spooky at gå derinde helt alene og at lige det her skilt om en massemorder ikke gjorde det mindre spooky? Hans metode var dog at få folk til at falde ned fra akvædukten. Ikke at snige sig ind på dem indenfor. Heldigvis! Hans hoved står i formalin på medicinsk museum i Lissabon. Jeg har det fint med at jeg ikke så det!

Inside the building were different signs with information. For instance this. Let's just say that it was a bit spooky walking inside the structure all alone and that this sign about a mass murderer did not make it any less spooky? His method, though, was to make people fall off the aqueduct. Not sneaking up on them inside. Fortunately! His head is conserved in formaldehyde in the medical museum in Lisbon. I am feeling very happy that I did not see that!

Der er den fineste udsigt fra akvædukten. Lissabon er en rigtig fin by! 

Det er så også lige det område som flyene mere eller mindre letter over, eftersom lufthavnen ligger midt i byen. Det gjorde mig taknemmelig for Tårnby, hvor jeg trods alt ikke få flyene i hovedet på samme måde. (Kun ved afbrudt landing)

Museet ligger så også i nærheden af en stor park med udsigt over vandet. 

Så alt i alt syntes jeg at jeg valgte rigtigt!

There is an amazing view from the aqueduct. Lisbon is such a pretty city!

It was also the area where the planes more or less took off over, since the airport is in the middle of the city. It made me happy for Tårnby where I live, because the planes are not flying over my head like that. (Only if they have to abort a landing)

The museum is also near a big park with a pretty view over the water. 

So all in all I do think I picked the best thing to do!

Baby!

I går tog jeg til Sønderjylland for at se sidste lille nye menneske i familien, lille N som nu er godt en måned gammel. Hun er fjerde barn i sin familie og fik lov til at prøve sit nye tæppe med det samme! Der var god plads til både hende og hendes storebror! (Hendes trøje er en Baby Surprise Jacket som jeg strikkede til hendes anden storebror som nu er 4 år...)

Hun er SÅ sød med kæmpe blå øjne! Og hun havde totalt styr på at jeg ikke var nogen hun kendte, så det var ikke så længe jeg fik holdt hende. 

Yesterday, I went to Southern Jutland to meet the latest tiny human in the family, little N who is about a month old by now. She is the fourth child in her family and got to test her new blanket directly!

There was plenty of space for her and her big brother! (She is wearing a Baby Surprise Jacket that I knit for her other big brother who is now 4 years old...)

She is SO cute with huge blue eyes! And she was very aware that I was a stranger, so it wasn't too long that I got to hold her. 

Hendes 3 ældre søskende havde derimod fuldstændigt styr på mig, og vi fik leget en hel del ude i haven! Det er ikke let at lege med 3 børn samtidig når de alle vil gøre præcis hvad den ældste gør, men ikke helt kan. Men til sidst blev det til at gynge de mindste mens jeg spillede bold (på en eller anden måde) med den ældste. Jeg kan godt mærke det i håndleddet i dag at jeg skubbede børn på gynge! 

De stod pænt og hjalp med at vinke til bussen så jeg kunne komme med den da jeg skulle hjem. Altså - jeg rakte armen ud, børnene vinkede, og buschaufføren vinkede pænt tilbage. Og standsede. 

Her 3 older siblings on the other hand knew me very well, and we played a lot in the garden!

It's not that easy playing with 3 kids at the same time when everybody wants to do exactly what the eldest does but are not really at that stage. But in the end the two youngest got pushed on the swings while I played ball with the oldest one. I can feel all the pushing in my wrist today!

They stood very nicely and helped me wave at the bus so I could get on when I was going home. Well - I stretched out my arm, the kids waved and the driver waved back nicely. And stopped. 

Det blev en del timer i bus og tog! På vej til Haderslev gik bussen pludselig i stå, men kom heldigvis i gang igen. Da jeg så kom til København tog jeg bussen det sidste stykke. Mens jeg ventede så jeg denne pølsevogn på vej hjem. Kan det blive mere dansk end det? At bilerne må vente på pølsevognen?

It ended up being quite some hours on bus and train! Going to Haderslev the bus suddenly stopped, but started again, luckily. Back in Copenhagen, I took the bus the last bit. While waiting, I saw this hotdog stand on it's way home. It doesn't get more Danish than this! The cars had to just chill and make room!

Der er ikke noget færdig strik lige nu, men I kan få lov at se hvad der udfordrer min tålmodighed lige nu. Mønsteret til min svogers strømper er ret enkelt - bare snoninger over 2 masker! Men det føles som om der er en MILLION!! På hver anden pind! OG jeg SKAL kigge når jeg gør det. 

Det var bare strømperne som kom med til Sønderjylland, og det gjorde at den første ihvertfald er færdig. 

So there is no finished projects to show right now, but you can get to see what's challenging my patience at the moment. The pattern for my brother-in-law's socks is really simple - just 2 stitch cables! But it feels like there is a MILLION! On every other round! AND I HAVE to look when doing it. 

So only the socks came with me to Southern Jutland and by now at least the first one is done.