I'm a spinner, dyer, knitter, weaver - in fact I love working with anything that has to do with yarn and fibres!
Also a dedicated runner, swimmer, MTB-rider and tri-athlethe.
Mushroom hunter, tree hugger, music lover and vegetarian.
“Gudenå”. Perlegrus-sweater i 5 forskellige Opus-farver.
Perlegrus-sweateren er færdig. Jeg har opkaldt den efter det vandløb jeg er vokset op tæt ved, og som jeg også nu bor lige i nærheden af, blot længere nede.
I Gudenåen har jeg svømmet og fisket som barn. Nu ror jeg kajak på denne smukke å, og nyder stilheden og den rolige strøm, fiskene der af og til plopper op i overfladen, de elegante fiskehejrer, krydsende snoge og de fantastiske blå lyn: isfuglene.
De blå-turkis-grønne farver i “Gudenå” glider roligt ind i og væk fra hinanden. Perlegrus-teknikken er eminent til at mikse de multifarvede garner så resultatet ikke blot bliver forudsigelige striber.
Jeg har strikket en størrelse Lille, samt regnet mig frem til en størrelse Stor. Opskriften er skrevet (på dansk i første omgang) og lagt på webshoppen:
Jeg lukkede masker af her til morgen – endelig! Selvom perlegrus er en meget smuk og enkel strikketeknik er den også lidt langsommelig at strikke, og jeg nåede at blive en smule træt af det her til sidst. Men nu er blusen omsider klar til sammensyning, og så skal der kanter på. Hvilken slags har jeg ikke besluttet endnu, men jeg hælder til en enkel hæklet kant rundt i halsen og på ærmerne. Måske også rundt forneden.
Jeg elsker farverne i det håndmalede Opus-garn!Så skal der sys sammen og laves kanter.
Jeg glæder mig til at flashe blusen til Saltum Uldfestival her i weekenden! 🙂
English summary: I have just cast off the last stitches of my linen-stitch sweater this morning. Now all that remains is sewing up the seams and making some kind of edge at the neckline and the sleeves. Looking forward to wear this garment at Saltum Uldfestival this weekend!
Jeg er lige flyttet fra mit store, rummelige og dejligt lyse værksted til et, der er både mindre og mørkere. Det var ikke med min gode vilje, men desværre kunne jeg ikke længere få lov til at være hvor jeg var – et sted jeg ellers var rigtig glad for.
Mit nye sted skal nok blive godt, jeg skal bare lige vænne mig til det.. Det vender mod nord og der slipper ikke meget dagslys ind gennem de små vinduer. Noget mindre plads end jeg er vant til betyder at der lige nu roder helt vildt! Jeg har en udfordring nu med at få tingene til at være der på den mest praktiske måde..
På-plads-sætning / putting stuff in its right place
Det var her i weekenden jeg flyttede, og nu mandag formiddag har jeg stillet væven op (og ryddet lidt mere op). Et kvarters spinding ude i formiddagssolen betød også at jeg blev færdig med at spinde en portion BFL/silke-garn, som jeg har arbejdet på sådan on-and-off i et godt stykke tid. Så blev det lige pludselig færdigt! 🙂
Garnet er 1-trådet og skal bruges som islæt til et tørklæde eller sjal. Det bliver det første væveprojekt på mit nye værksted.
BFL/silke, farve “Jupiter”, 1-trådet. Spundet på en Bosworth Midi / BFL/silk singles, colourway “Jupiter”, on a Bosworth Midi spindle
Det vidunderlige vejr har givet lyst til udendørs kreativiteter, og jeg har nydt at sidde og strikke på mit nyeste design: en bluse i perlegrus-teknik, strikket i Opus i 5 forskellige farver. Jeg tror det bliver godt! In English: I have just moved to my new workshop/studio this weekend. A little less spacious than what I’m used to, I need to be good at placing all my stuff, yarns and wool in a practical way. I finished spinning some BFL/silk singles for a woven scarf or shaw. I have spun this over a longer period of time, in between other projects. Suddenly it’s finished! My current knitting project is a pullover in linen stitch. I’m using Opus Handspun yarn in 5 different colours. I like it 🙂
The Alma Ella Shawl is a free pattern over on Ravelry. Designed by Robin Lynn and generously made available for all lovers of simple, but beautiful shawls.
Here is a linkie to the original pattern on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/alma-ella-shawl
My friend Mariann, who is a skilled knitter (and now also a spinner with a serious spindle collecting issue, but that is a whole different story..) has created an Alma Ella in my handpainted lace merino yarn, “Serenade”.
Is it not beautiful? I think so!
I have translated the pattern into Danish and placed it in the “patterns” section of this blog. Go ahead and download, if you please.
Alma Ella
Alma Ella-sjalet er en gratisopskrift ovre på Ravelry. Jeg har oversat det til dansk og det kan nu downloades her på bloggen, under “patterns”.
I am a relatively new member of the knitting society “Seriøs Strik For Sjov”, which means “Serious Knitting For Fun”. Every year the members are encouraged to knit/crochet/craft something for a travelling exibition. This years theme is “Just Blue”, and that simply means that only blue items are allowed.
The deadline is on March 1st, but I handed in my blue item the other night when we met at Silkeborg Museum, as usual on the third thursday of the month.
Before I let go of my blue thing, I took a few photos. Our chairman Hanne has given permission to publish photos, so here it is:
Equalizer
The top is knitted in two long panels that goes over the shoulders, each one dyed in two blue colors. The idea was to knit with exactly the number of stitches required for the color change to find place in the middle of the panel. It meant that I had to pay great attention to gauge – I litteraly had to count on every row, allowing for some drifting – but not much.
The two panels were joined front and back with mattress stitching, and the sides are mesh panels.
Side panel of the Equalizer Top
I like how the two panels that make up the front and back are so different. The dark blue/turquoise panel gave name to the top: The color shifting looks kind of like the equalizer-panel on the stereo..
Apart from finishing my Equalizer Top I have been weaving. Soon I will be ready to cut down the two rugs in Swedish Rosepath-pattern. They will be approximately 2 meters (80 inches) long, the first one a little longer than the second. The weaving width is 80 cms (32 inches), but I expect the width to crawl in to about 70 cms.
Here is a look at the pattern of the second rug:
Cutting down will be very exiting! It will happen in a few days.. I’m curious to weigh the rugs to find out the amount of yarn that has gone into them – I have used nothing but stash yarns.
Yes. I have a serious stash..
About a week ago I finished the first Rosepath Rug on my Finlandia loom. It still sits there on the loom, because I have to weave a second rug before I cut down and finish the work.
First rug finished!
I really like the look of Rug #1. I hope it looks good also when it’s off the loom and on the floor. Now it slowly dissapears from my eyes as it rolls onto the clothbeam..
For the second rug I first started out doing some weft-changing over the width, in order to create a rug with four color zones from left to right. I happily started working on the idea but it didn’t work out quite the way I had envisioned it. Gave it up. Then I took a break for a few days to think..
This is what I ended up doing:
Rosepath rug #2 – the beginning
The ground weft is a light gray wool yarn and the pattern weft is multiple strands of brown, red and purple yarns. I also altered the threading sequence to make this pattern – I like the way it looks – kind of old-fashioned. And Swedish.. 🙂
Take a closer look:
Swedish rosepath.
I would love to hear what you think! Does it look okay? (No, I will not show you my selvedges.. There is something to improve regarding those..)
I have composed and dyed 3 new colors: 2 greens and a red-brown. Here they are, shown on Opus yarn.
I have also dyed the green ones on Serenade (lace yarn) and on BFL-Steps (sock yarn), and they are now in my webshop: http://garngalleriet.bigcartel.com/
The chestnut brown have been dyed on wool-tops as well as the Opus yarn, but I don’t have any photos of the Chestnut fiber to show yet.
“Chestnut” on Opus
Also, the rug weaving project I talked about in the last post is coming along nicely. I’m about 20 cms short of finishing the first one, and right now I am thinking about how I want the second rug to look. The exact plans are not quite complete yet, but #2 of this warp will be a much more colorfull rug than #1, that’s for sure!
“Hunter” on Opus
I want to try weaving with several weft-bundles per pick, so that I can change colors in the middle of the rug. I have a feeling it will be slow-going, also because I will be composing the weft bundles out of many strands of yarn each. What fun it will be!
So, I’m off!
This morning I began weaving the first of the two (maybe three) rugs that I’ve set my loom up for. Have a quick look at this very beginning:
At the bottom you see the hem. This is to be folded and sewed – no fringe for any rugs in my house, because the vacuum cleaner robot chokes on it..!
On top of that is the rosepath patterned rug fabric. For the tabby ground weave I use a beautiful 2-ply yarn of gotland sheep wool. Dark bordeaux. I use 4 strands as one. Actually I have plyed and then cabled the yarns to make it easier to get an even tabby-weave.
The pattern yarns, on the other hand, are just laying side by side. There are 8 strands of yarn held together, all different qualities and fibers. Only “rule” is that the yarns for the pattern weave has to be white, natural, tan og grey.
There are many many pattern possibilities with rosepath, but this first rug is just gong to have this diamond pattern, all over. For the next one I might get a little more adventurous and play with the threadling sequence.. 🙂
It’s been much too long since I’ve done that, and my beautiful Finlandia Loom has been standing naked in my studio for more than 1 year. The latest items I wove on the Finlandia were two twill shawls. These beauties. Back in August ’12!
Yesterday I suddenly decided that it was time to dress the loom. I made a warp of cotton carpet yarn, for rugs.
I am going for a weave structure called Swedish Rosepath. It is woven on 4-shafts and ties up into a ground tabby and the rosepath pattern. 6 treadles. I have an idea of using grey wool yarn as the ground weft and several strands of left-over yarns for the pattern. Hope it will work out the way I envision it!
I really have enormous amounts of left-over yarns, whish makes this project look very usefull and practical – at least in my head. I can’t wait to weave a sample, so I better get going.. The loom is warped but I still have a lot of setting-up to do before I’m ready to go.
