Jorden, havet og himlen/ earth, sea and skye

 

 

 

 

Jorden, havet og himlen ( earth, sea and skye ) skal lægge farve til det sjal, jeg har besluttet at strikke. Det er perfekt som sommer og havesjal, men ideen er tyvstjålet fra en strikker jeg fandt på Instagram og sidenhen også på Ravelry. Hendes version af sjalet er simpelthen så smuk, at jeg må forsøge at gøre hende kunsten efter.

 

Billederne og sjalet er Colleen Smiths, og hun har været så sød at tillade mig, at dele hendes sjal og fotos med jer herinde. I kan se mere fra Colleen lige her:

http://www.ravelry.com/people/BelowWoldsSkies  og her: https://www.instagram.com/below_wolds_skies/

 

Jeg vil gøre hende kunsten efter, og så alligevel ikke helt.

Faktisk har jeg både samme garn og samme farver liggende på lager, men det er alpaca, hvilket er lige lovligt varmt for mig til et sommersjal. Jeg har i stedet fundet rester af Silkwool frem, hvor der også er farver der passer, men her kan jeg gå hen og mangle grumme mange meter, så lige nu er jeg lidt i tvivl. Garnpusheren har nemlig absolut intet af garnet på lager for tiden, og hvem ved hvornår der bliver fyldt op igen.

 

Jeg har lidt støvet brun som skal være første farve og dernæst følger:

- græs, sand, strå, hav, skum, og himmel. Kan I følge mig?

Foruden de valgte farver har jeg taget lidt ekstra, som bare ligger ved siden af til at være spontan med, hvis nu jeg lige føler for det. Der er et sokkegarn som jeg har gemt på i årevis og som har de samme farver, der er en mørk turkis og en mørkere gylden i silkwool. Det er ikke sikkert jeg synes de skal med, men nu ligger de der. Jeg kan heller ikke helt bestemme mig for, om jeg vil have lidt mohair med, så også det ligger i kassen til eftertanke.

 

Som farverne ligger der i kassen ligner det, at sjalet vil være domineret af den grønne og den gyldne, men som strikkeforløbet er bygget op vil de blå og råhvide farver være mest fremtrædende. Nu skal jeg så bare lige beslutte om jeg vil gå den vej velvidende, at jeg kan komme til at mangle garn i de rette farver, når jeg kommer til det bredeste stykke.

Sjalet hedder “ find your fade” af Andrea Mowry, og det kan I se mere om lige her:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/find-your-fade

Som det kan ses, så er langt de fleste strikket i flerfarvet garn, men det er alt alt for stresskulørt til mig. Jeg må have lidt mere ro på mit. Ro, som når man sidder i sandet ved havet, og har den høje himmel over sig.

 

For Colleen: Thank you so much for allowing me to share. My choise of colours has ended up a little bit different from yours, as I didn’t have enough yarn stash from the blue scale, and I’m making myself NOT by more yarn.. Let’s see if this resolution will hold HA! Iv’e linked to my yarnshop and written my colour choice on the picures above. The silkwool from Garnudsalg.dk is absolutely wonderful and light, but sadly they are completely out of stock at the moment ( wich makes it a lot easier not to go yarnshopping hihi ) and it will be perfect in making a light summer shawl. In my part of Denmark we can have some seriously hot summerdays, but in the evenings the shawl is perfect.

Høstjakken / fallcoat by Pickles, to be grå eller not to be grå ..

 

 

 

 

 

Høstjakken.. efterhånden lidt af et fænomen i space, og dermed også på gader og stræder rundt omkring i skandinavien. En hurtig søgning på Ravelry viser, at der er registreret 131 viste projekter, men lur mig om det ikke er i underkanten og at der er mange flere, som bare ikke er vist frem i space. I aftes søgte jeg lidt efter inspiration til farver på Instagram, og også der er den populær. Der er rigtigt mange af den, og som jeg selv har mange ( de fleste.. ) strikket en grå model.

 

 

At min også blev grå var både fordi grå ER pænt, men også fordi det går til det meste i min, efterhånden både slunkne og slidte, vintergarderobe. Når jeg strikker prioriterer jeg altid efter, hvad jeg mangler af beklædning, og om det er en farve jeg har i forvejen. Hvis jeg feks vil strikke en sweater i en model jeg har set og er faldet for, så giver det ingen mening at strikke den op i en farve,  jeg allerede har en sweater i, for så har jeg jo to og dermed ikke megen variation. Måske DET ikke giver mening for andre end mig selv, men det handler nok om min økonomi, og at jeg er blevet voldsomt praktisk, af ikke at kunne shoppe efter lyst længere.

 

 

Nå, men  … .

 

Høstjakken. Som sagt er der mange af den, og de allerfleste er grå. Det fik mig til at gå helt i rasmusmodsatmode i aftes, og selvom jeg egentlig havde pakket garn i kurv til en strib/meleret råhvid toer, så fik jeg i stedet trang til at gå imod alt det grå diskrete omend lækre strik derude, og istedet lægge an til en rød toer. Gul gider jeg ikke, det er FOR sommerligt. Mørk orange har jeg ikke garn nok til. Grøn har jeg allerede. Blå har jeg heller ikke nok garn af. Osv osv. Så rød bliver min næste Høstjakke. Kommer jeg igennem den uden, at være faldet helt i søvn fordi den dybest set er møgkedelig at strikke ( det er blevet mit dræbersneglsprojekt ), ja SÅ tror jeg at en tre’er kunne gå hen og blive råhvid. Eller kaffebrun. Eller endnu endnu sjovere STRIBET..

 

 

Min absolutte favoritfarve for tiden er faktisk en helt femte, nemlig den der hedder kommen fra Garnudsalg.dk. Jeg har to nøgler på lager og er begyndt på et fint lacesjal af det ene, så i sidste ende vil der ikke være garn nok til en hel jakke. Desværre. For det er den smukkeste, lækreste og skønneste efterårsfarve man kan tænke sig, og en der også er en smule mere farvet end ja, grå. Tror ikke den er på lager der for tiden, ejheller at den kan suppleres med en alpaka i samme farve, så min toer bliver altså rød.

 

 

Selve modellen sidder rigtigt godt. Og da jeg jo ikke er den, der holder mig til det skrevne ord, ja så kunne jeg snildt finde på at ændre lidt på tingene, og måske tilføje en hætte. Et par indstrikkede lommer i kontrastfarver lurer også i min fantasi, og da jeg ikke er i besiddelse af den berømte Kashmiropskrift, kunne jeg derfor også godt finde på at lave en høstjakke der var meleret. Hvis ellers jeg kunne regne det der med farvekombinationerne ud.  Jeg kan se et hav af skønne striber på Instagram, men ved gud om jeg kan tænke mig til, hvordan de smukke kombinationer bliver til!  Det ligger uden for min harddiskkapacitet så at sige.

 

 

Der er faktisk så mange kashmir’er, at der er et hashtag der hedder kashmirklubben haha. Jeg vil være med i den kluuuuuuub  hihi.

 

 

 

PS:  Hvis nogen sidder derude og har det som jeg, ja så er jeg da frisk på at lave en høstjakkeklub. Altså en, hvor der er kulør på: Det kunne faktisk være ret så interessant at se, HVOR mange jakker den klub så kunne vise frem i løbet af vinteren.

World Wide Knit In Public Day

 

 

Hende her har i anledning af WWKIP d. 12 juni også sat gang i, hvad man kunne kalde en omgang “kædestrikning”.  Er du lidt vild med ideen om streetart, så tag et kig ind på hendes side og se hvad hun har fundet på .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

 

 

Jeg ville ønske at jeg kunne deltage i et fællesprojekt med strikning og hygge i det fri, men i stedet gør jeg da bare som jeg plejer, nemlig at strikke udendørs og på en bænk.

En lille ydmyg solodeltagelse i dette vildt gode initiativ til, at få strikket og udbredt nørkleriets fortræffeligheder. 

På WWKIP’s egen hjemmeside kan I læse mere om hvad det egentlig handler om og historien bag.

Blogging about knitting wedensday

 

One Great Knitter

Write about a knitter whose work (whether because of project choice, photography, styling, scale of projects, stash, etc) you enjoy. If they have an enjoyable blog, you might find it a good opportunity to send a smile their way.

Todays subject is a hard one for me. As a resonably new knitter, I haven’t really found one favorite knitter yet. Many different bloggers are my inspiration, and I find myself being inspired again and again, after having wiewed yet another wonderful project.

In fact I can get rather dissy and almost blacked out, from having to chose what next to put on the needles.

As with yarn ( that subject is cuming up soon ), I have a really tough time in putting limits, to the amount of projects in my knitting bag.

Blankets, shawls ( my abfab favorites), cardi’s, socks, sweaters..

The list goes on and on forever, and luckily I have lots of possibilities when i comes to realtives and friends to supply summer and winter :), and I’m a staying home mom too..

I won’t name just one knitter, but list in random a few bloggers who will certainly be familiar in the danish bloggercommunity, and two from abroad who’s colourful designs are a treat for the eye:

Make a visit here:

http://knittingbykaae.blogspot.com/  

She has a talented way of making her own designs, and even though they are both a little bit too colourful for me, and VERY difficult in my world, I love to read about her progess. She’s still a very young woman, and who knows what she can accomplish in time?

 

 http://christunte.blogspot.com/2010/04/til-sommer-minder.html

This woman may not design worldrevolutionary knits, BUT she’s filled with humor, and regularly posts about knitting with a twist. She finds funny, strange and somewhat kinda ugly projects to knit, and recently shes designed her very own unionpillow, just for the fun of it. She makes me smile.

http://garnfreak.blogspot.com/

This woman must be on my list of favorite knitters as well, simply because she’s so damn quick on the needles. She impossible to follow, and I can’t belive how she manages a second education late in life, house, family, AND to produce enough to fill a shop with her work :))

http://blog.grendesign.dk/grendesign/

At Grendesign’s you’ll find a very skilled knitter, who’s also kompetent when it comes to describe and help with difficult problems in patterns.  She post’s pictures of how to.. and makes a variaty of things to inspire me.

http://moccapigen.dk/

Last but not least..  THIS woman always manages to make me feel the need for yet another project I simply can not live without. It seems to me that her taste is very much like mine, and when she blogs about a pattern, design or project my list of to do’s grows once more,    you evil woman… ;))

The next two will probably be familiar to several of the bloggers outside of Denmark:

http://doyoumindifiknit.typepad.com/do_you_mind_if_i_knit/

She’s a keen chrotcheteer, and her love for squares in bright colours allways makes me feel in desperate need of a new blanket. Every post has it’s own selection of great pictures to inspire, and so they certainly do :)

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/

As a second time around new mom, this blogger and knitter/crotcheteer also is an example to follow.. If only I had the energy. My godness she’s busy as a bee, and manages to take pic’s, compose words and projects into an unbelievably creative blog. As far as I can tell, she’s almost famous.. ;)

We can’t have a post of knitting without a picture of something wooly so take a look at this:

 

Simple and pretty design from Sweden and I must make one for myself..

Blogging about knitting, day two

An Inspirational Pattern

Blog about a pattern or project which you aspire to. Whether it happens to be because the skills needed are ones which you have not yet acquired, or just because it seems like a huge undertaking of time and dedication, most people feel they still have something to aspire to in their craft. If you don’t feel like you have any left of the mountain of learning yet to climb, say so!

 

In the beginning of this year I decided to give myself a challenge that could give me new skills, a lot of knitting with colours and above all, many hours of fun and brain-excercise.

It turned out to be too much of a challenge, and I’ve had to put it aside for a while, until I’ve learned the more basic tricks of the pattern in question. I haven’t given up yet, and I still have allmost eight months to go, but I must admit it’s a very difficult project for me.

First of all it takes lots of yarn i different colours, all rolled up into two big balls, every tone carefully chosen and then added by hand. This process gave me great joy, I loved to handle the yarn, spending time wondering and testing until I felt it was just right.

The next step was to make a sample, trying out the pattern and see if my choise of yarn had been a mistake og not. The original recommended Kauni, but that would mean my own stash had to be increased even more… and my favorite brand allready had supplied me with a great amount of yarn in various wonderful shades, so the case was clear and I was happy the day I began.

My first attempt was NOT a succes, the next even worse, the third went the same way and now I’ve given it a rest…

My mood was a that point so gloomy, that new projects had to take over for a while, and more practice needed before I  once again pick up this years challenge. And what, you must be wondering, IS the challenge??

Ta da…

 

 

Ruth Sørensens beautiful Tusindfryd Shawl.

 

I love flowers in all kinds and forms, and therefore this is a must in my collection of homemade shawls. The fact that it takes two treads at a time, and that the shawl is knitted in the round, has given me more trouble than I had imagined, but maybe one day…

I went on knitting this one instead:

 

Karen Noe’s Dominoes in kauni. And yes..  I ended up buying Kauni anyway. I’m only human :)

 

 

Want to read what other bloggers/ravelers has to tell of todays subject?

Kopy : knitcroblo2 and paste in googlesearch, it links directly. Read it with a sip of coffee, lean back and enjoy ;)

Day one in a week of blogging about knitting

 

The question and tekst of the day goes:

How and when did you begin knitting/crocheting? was it a skill passed down through generations of your family, or something you learned from Knitting For Dummies? What or who made you pick up the needles/hook for the first time? Was it the celebrity knitting ‘trend’ or your great aunt Hilda?

 

My very first experience in the knitting business, was at the age of sixteen. It was in the early ‘80, and homemade knitwear was a hot trend. A friend and I knitted all sorts of sweaters from patterns in magazines. Eventhough I have severeral relatives who knit, my mother never did, and so I just had to learn along the way and improvise when in doubt. I remember having great fun, but only one or two projects really ever finished ok.

I still have the recepies from back then, and these two are the projects that ended up wearable:

 

 

 

By the age of twenty I gave it up, the trend was fading and instead I took up needlepointing again, a hobby that was to mark me as the weardo in my later circle of friends. It’s been a hobby of mine since I was a small child, and all the women in my family does it. In the late ‘80 fashion was NOT that of being homey, and like making jam, it just wasn’t done.. I’ve never been one to follow trends though in my grown up life, and when everybody else went for wellpaying careers I just tried to hang in there, battling with a growing mental ilness, and the feeling of not being like everybody else. Embroidering was a great way of taking my mind of things.

 

Three exsambles of my needlepoiting projects.

 

And so it went on until only last spring, when I finally tried to take up knitting again. For a while it had been on my mind, but i’d hesitated because of the idea that yarn was too expencive, and the fact that I really didn’t know how to do it proberly. I april ‘09 I began blogging, and shortly after I came across several knitters, who inspired me to try a small project of a scarf. It quicly ended it’s days a my pets favorite blanket, and looked terible. Cheap yarn, wrong size of needles and no exact instruction was the reason, and I decided never to go that way about it again. If I’m to spend so much time and energy in making things I actually want to wear and use, it has to be done right.

 

Guinea Cupcake loved it very much :))

 

Since then Ravelry and the fact that a lot of great tutorials is to be found both on youtube and from other bloggers, has turned me into a complete knitting nerd hihi. Everything I’ve made has been taught to me, including crochet,  via the internet, and a for a period, in a knitting café nearby. The very idea of knitting in a shop, filled with wonderful yarns is great and very inspiring AND help is always at hand.

The reason knitting is a part of my daily life and a MUST do rutine is simple, and the same as for embroidering. Colours and patterns makes me forget and relax, it takes me away from my uncontrolled mind, and gives me an inner calm that is priceless. The finished objects are of course a pleasure in it selv, but not the main purpose, and a great many things ends up as gifts, some of it i’ve even sold to friends and others, with a wonderful sence of pride.

 

Want to read what other bloggers/ravelers has to tell of todays subject?

Kopy : knitcroblo1 and paste in googlesearch, it links directly. Read it with a sip of coffee, lean back and enjoy ;)

 

Klik her for at læse mere om dagens og ugens bloggeemne:

http://defemibyen.blogspot.com/2010/04/en-uge-med-strikkesjov.html