Lidt indtryk fra kurset i dag, som jeg afholdt for 6 dygtige og engagerede spindere på mit værksted. Heldigvis kunne vi sidde udenfor i det dejlige vejr! 🙂
A few snapshots from todays spinning workshop at my work studio. Thanks to the lovely weather the 6 lovely spinners could sit and work outside 🙂
Saltum Uldfestival, der afholdes hvert år i maj, er overstået for denne gang. Pyh, jeg var træt søndag aften, da bilen endelig var pakket ud og jeg kunne slappe af med familien. Det var en dejlig Uldfestival!
Der var rigtig mange besøgende. Især om lørdagen var der rigtig gang i den, og Jette og jeg fik knap nok tid til at kaste lidt mad indenbords, selvom vi var to til at passe standen. Sådan skal det bare være!!
Søndag var der lidt mere tid til hygge og snak, og da vi havde stand lige ved siden af Spindeforeningens fulgte vi også lidt med i hvad der foregik derovre. Der var en kæmpe interesse for at høre om spindingens kunst, og medlemmerne på standen viste gerne hvordan en håndten skal snurres! Selv de allermindste fik lidt undervisning.
Hjemme igen er jeg i fuld gang med at farve bestillinger op, og der skal også pakkes strikkekits til “Gudenå”-sweateren. (Nu er den også på Ravelry)
Desuden er jeg gået i gang med at designe en sweater i det fabelagtigt lækre finske uldgarn Pirkkalanka. Det bliver naturligvis en fuldmønstret fair-isle sag.. 🙂
English summary:
The Wool Festival in Saltum is over for this year. It was fantastic: lots of visitors, customers and friends came by GarnGalleriet’s booth.
The Danish Spinning Guild Spindeforeningen was right next to my booth – they were also busy showing and telling – and teaching!
Now I have a lot of yarns and fibres to dye, and I also need to pack some knit-kits for the “Gudenå” sweater. It was very well recieved at the Wool Festival 🙂
Something new has begun: a sweater in the Finnish wool yarn “Pirkkalanka”. Fair Isle style, of course 🙂
I am so happy and proud to present my newest yarn in my webshop:
Pirkkalanka 8/2 – beautiful 2-ply knitting and weaving yarn from Finland!
I feel a deep desire to design and knit some traditional-style mittens for this yarn! I’ll start that project up later today 🙂
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.
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:
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:
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..)
Lately I have been dyeing some one-of-a-kind colorways on my sock yarn BFL-Steps.
For socks you only need 1 skein and it’s always fun to knit – and wear! – a pair that is completely unique.
Take a look at my two latest OOAK- sock yarns here. You can find more in the webshop. Now, I’ll go and knit some special socks for myself.. 🙂
Yellow/red/green/blue in the top photo, blue/green/purple in the bottom pic.
My new dress (or tunic) in fair isle style stranded knitting is called “Mirabel”. It has been underways for a little more than a year, but last week I finally got it done.
I like how it turned out. What do you think?:
I have drawn the different patterns myself and it was a joy knitting the garment and watch how it came along. There was no plan for the colour placement – that part I just made up as I went.
Now I have hauled out another unfinished object from the depths of a knitting basket. Also a fair isle garment, a sweater. Very traditional. This one I knit with wool yarn that I have dyed with plants and mushrooms. It wont turn out nearly as beautiful as the dress, but it will be a warm and comfy sweater for next winter.
I’ll show it when it’s done. I’m good into the second sleeve.
2 af de nye farveholdninger til min monokrome palette, der er under udvikling: Blå Bæk og Lys fjeld.
Spindeprøverne (shetlandsuld, 2-trådet garn) er blevet til på min russiske Aaes-spindepind, og tvundet på den anden nye Aaes. Håndtene er fantastiske redskaber, i al deres enkelhed!! Ingen vedligeholdelse, nemme at opbevare, transportable, effektive, smukke, praktiske og relativt billige.
Her ses uldhjulene “Lys Fjeld” og “Blå Bæk” i deres helhed, begge på shetlandsuld:
Der er også for nylig blevet produceret en gul farveholdning, kaldet “Guldåre”. Den er endnu ikke fotograferet. En grøn hænger til tørre lige nu og en rød bliver farvet senere i dag. Stay tuned!!