God jul og godt nytt år!

Jeg vil ønske alle mine besøkende/lesere en riktig god jul og et godt nytt år!

A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of my visitors/readers!

Blå blomster

Burde strikke når jeg har tid, men har mer lyst til å slå nupereller. Her er en brikke etter et mønster av Lissy Madsen. Jeg har strikket litt og har bare 8 omganger igjen før kanten.

English summary
I should be knitting as much as possible, but I had to make this doily designed by Lissy Madsen.

To sider av samme sak

I dette tilfellet samme nuperellemotiv. Mønsteret heter September Serenade, og er designet av Leonore English.

English summary
The two sides of the motif September Serenade, designed by Leonore English.

Strikkekrise!

(This is rather long. There is an English version halfway down)

Tenk deg: Du har litt over 1000 masker på en lang rundpinne og jobber hardt og innstendig for å få sjalet ferdig i tide. Så, idet du trekker de nylig strikkede maskene nedover vaieren løsner noe. Du ser etter og ser at plastvaieren har løsnet fra metallet på pinnen! Vaieren løper innover og slipper av masker i en rasende fart før du får summet deg og når du rører litt på strikketøyet, løsner flere masker. Krise!

Dette skjedde meg her om dagen mens jeg strikket på sjalet som skal bli ferdig til nyttår. Etter et øyeblikks panikk, fikk jeg dradd i vaieren slik at ikke flere masker skulle løsne, og gikk i gang med å berge det som berges kunne. De løsnede maskene ble satt på strømpepinner, det samme ble maskene som ble værende på metalldelen av pinnen.

Så satt jeg da, med et strikketøy som nærmet seg fullføring (mange masker igjen så strikke, men slutten er i sikte), men uten pinne å strikke med. Men, etter en nærmere gransking av den ødelagte pinnen viste at den kunne repareres dersom lim kunne holde den sammen. Jeg fant fram superlimflasken, holdt pinnen i god avstand fra strikkingen, dryppet en dråpe i hullet og stakk inn vaieren. Etter noen minutters venting testet jeg pinnen, og til min store glede satt vaieren godt på plass. Og nå, etter et par omganger og et par tusen masker, holder pinnen fortsatt.

Hva har jeg lært av dette? Jo: Hold i vaieren, ikke pinnen når maskene trekkes rundt. Og om uhellet er ute, ikke få panikk, hold roen i alle fall til løsnede masker er sikret.

English summary
Imagine: you have at least 1000 stitches on your circular needle, and are working hard to finish the shawl in time. Then, as you pull the just knitted stitches over the wire, something let go. Checking it, you find that the wire have loosened from the metal needle! The wire is running through the stitches letting them loose and as you move the work, more stitches loosen. You are in a knitting crisis!

This happened to me yesterday as I was knitting on the shawl that has to be done by New Year. After a short flash of panic I managed to pull the wire to stop more stitches from loosening, and started saving what could be saved. The loose stitches was put on double point needles as were the stitches left on the metal needle.

There I was, my project getting close to finishing (still a lot of stitches to knit, but the end is getting closer), and no needle to use. Looking closer at the damage I realised it could be mended if I could find some glue that would hold. I found some superglue and put a drop in the hole and put the wire back in place. I waited some minutes and after testing realised that the wire was firmly fixed. And now, after a couple of rows and a couple of stitches later, the wire still holds.

What did I learn by this? First: hold on to the wire when pulling the stitches along the wire. And keep calm at least until the loos stitches are on replacement needles!

Flere hjemmelekser

Denne gangen: inkapsling.

English summary
More homework. This time: Encapsulation

Hjemmelekser

Jeg har meldt meg på et nuperellekurs på internett som holdes av Gerogia Seitz. Undervisninga foregår via chatting, noe jeg gjorde for første gang i mitt liv sist mandag. Første gang jeg var med, var temaet klassiske hjul av ringer. Hjemmeleksen var å lage et kvadrat etter å ha sett på hvordan en trekant var konstruert. Jeg måtte prøve meg på en femkant også. Hadde tenkt å lage en sekskant, men en venninne spurte om det ikke var mulig å lage hjerter på samme måten, så jeg prøvde det i stedet. Siden kurset er på engelsk, er resten av teksten her på engelsk.

English version
I have just joined the online tatting class run by Georgia Seitz. The theme for the first class I was attending was the classic tatted wheel. After having studied a triangle based on the tatted wheel the homework was making a similar square.

For me the first step was to reproduce the triangle. The triangle we had a look at in class, had two rings between the clovers that make the corners of the triangle. Centre ring: 2 dst 9 times. Small rings: 6+6, join to the centre ring. Side rings: 6+3-2-2-3-6 (two between each clover). Clovers: R: 6+3-2-2-3-6, R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6, R: 6+3-2-2-3-6, leave some thread between the rings in the clover.

Then the square. Four corners calls for four clovers. As there are more rings to go around, I made them slightly smaller. Still using two rings between each clover, I needed 2 dst 12 times in the centre ring. Small rings 6+6, join to the centre ring. Side rings 6+2-1-1-2-6. Clovers: R: 6+2-1-1-2-6, R: 6+2-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-6, R: 6+2-1-1-2-6, leave some thread between the rings.

The natural next step would be a pentagon. As I did not want the size to be too large, I reduced the number of rings between the clovers to one. As the number of rings decreased I increased the size to the same as for the triangle. I should not have done so. It needed some persuading to be flat.


I was aiming for a hexagon, but before I got that far, a friend of mine asked if it was possible to make a heart as she found the triangle to be of a "heart-ish" shape. I had to try to make one. The first attempt my friend got the same evening, no photo. The second attempt was less like a hart, the third not much better. The fourth is more like the first attempt, only larger rings at the curves. The fifth (grey) is more like a heart. If I make it again, I'll make the ring at the point a bit larger.

This is how you make the grey heart:

All 6+6 rings are joined to the centre ring
All outer rings are joined to the previous outer ring. The last is also joined to the first outer ring.

Leave a long tail for the splitring
Centre ring: 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2.
SR: 6/6.
R: 6-3-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+6.
R: 6+3-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+6.
Clover
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.

R: 6+6.
R: 6+6-6.
R: 6+6.
Clover
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.

R: 6+6.
R: 6-3-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+6.
R: 6-3-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+6.
Clover
R: 6+3-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-2-2-3-6.
R: 6+3-2-2-3+6.

Små snøfnugg

Siden snøen er kommet ute, var det på sin plass å lage noen små snøfnugg inne også. Disse er laget i Gütermann Sulky Viskose. Mønstrene er designet av Patty Dowden og Inga Madsen (snøfnugget er første omgang til en brikke Inga har designet).

English summary
As it is snowing outdoors I had to make some snowflakes for the indoors as well. The one to the left is designed by Patty Dowden. The one to the right is the first row of a doily designed by Inga Madsen.