Värmland, linen and knitting thread again

This weekend I took a trip to Klässbols Linneväveri. Among other purchases, surprisingly, I came home with another cone of yarn (thread). 1-ply, pure linen (not my normal preference, one may think but...) just look at this! It's my heritage, it's from my beautiful Värmland and it's just gorgeous. I had to start test knitting immediately, and the result is absolutely beautiful! A shining lustrous crisp sample of my Estonian Jewel pattern. I just have to complete this one!

You can keep on travelling the world, but I find everything I need at home.

Fourth Poncho

Yet another poncho. I love this pattern, I just don't know what to do with this garment. I Think I'll just put it in my treasure chest for a while.

Fårfest i Kil 2015

I've had so much fun this weekend at the annual Fårfest in Kil! talking about knitting and crocheting. Thank you all for stoppning a while in Lammbaren, watching, feeling and listening to my handicraft life. Thank you so much Carina Olsson at Kulturcentrum/slöjd for inviting me! Värmland is a lucky county having you on board! And I'm really proud of you all arranging the festivities in Kil, it's impressive what you have achieved!

Tangle teezer

I don't like the way headsets tangles up in the handbag. People don't have time to wait for me trying to get the cord separated from all other stuff I bring around. They hang up, just as I manage to detangle. Solution to the problem: just knit an icord around the cable. It made magic to my answering speed! Just an hour of my life, watching TV while knitting and here it is: my own tangle teezer.

Poncho, No 4

Obviously I have lots of patience. I have just started my fourth poncho. The first one my daughter took over, the second is mine, the third I actually gave away and the fourth I'm just knitting because I found the inspiration in the foyer at Medborgarhuset before Circus Cirkör's performance Knitting Peace in Säffle last weekend. It was supposed to be a knitting café in the foyer, but it turned out to be placed right in a scenographic display of white knitted and crocheted Items.

SkulLace

This shawl isn't completely my own design, I was inspired by the blog kungenomajkis the site of a very talented and extremely funny crocheter. I made my own version of it for my 9 year old daughter who thinks skulls are cool and certainly in a lace shawl crocheted by mummy. I used vintage crochet cotton yarn from my stash.

Embla's Disco Tunic

This is my daughter’s new disco tunic. The girls at my daughter’s school seem to prefer to dress in just a tank top and tights when they go to a party. I think It’s difficult to find a cute but not too grown up design of tank tops for kids. So here it is, well dressed but still cute. For years I have been inspired by the embroidered bed linen in the movie Mamma Mia. I have been thinking of how transfer this into a knitted item. I got this final idea af a tunic two weeks ago driving to Norway, I started last saturday and finished it today 24/3-2013. The embroidery yarn I used, used to be my (by long gone) grand mothers’. I need a model for this item to take better photos, but for now the too large doll has to be my mannequin. She loved it!