Tourist at home

Sometimes it's nice to be a tourist in your own town.

Today we visited Maihaugen.

Young girls in one of the old houses, making "hosoband".

Somebody had done crochet, too.

I love these old mountain farms!

And all the flowers!

Natural and artificial:

Sunday lunch at Skafferiet

A beautiful summer Sunday.

Skafferiet at Hovinsholm.

Helgøya, Hedmark, Norway.

No shopping today, just looking. (They have an online store, too.)

Nice clothes. but all quite expensive. I prefer Fretex and redesign.

But the place is really nice, they had a tasty midsummer salad, a delicious raspberry limonade, coffee, cakes and icecream, perfect for a summer Sunday lunch.

Butterfly tunic

More than twenty years ago, a good friend of mine made me a yellow butterfly summer top. It was a swap, I sewed her a skirt, she didn't know how to handle a sewing machine at the time.

The skirt is long gone, but I've kept the top, even though I haven't used it much. It was cute, but a bit to short for my belly...


Since then, my friend has learnt to sew. In easter, during her dress exhibition, I was inspired to turn the old top into a tunic, using an old college sweater from my father and some lace ribbon.

Redesign is fun! My friend has an Epla shop now (Epla is the Norwegian version of Etsy).

Have a look!

A different view

On the blog "How about orange" I learnt that you can get different views with Blogger: Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot, or Timeslide

Here's a Flipcard view of my blog: (Click on the photo to get the up-to-date version).


Or see a Timeslide view here. Those are my two favourites. On "How about orange" you can get a lot of other nice tips - check it out!

Btw - thanks a lot for all your comments on my redesign cardigan - and for all other comments, I do appreciate them.

Birthday hat #2

"Ilsetra at 40", made for a friend and colleague.

A second version of my pattern Ilsetra.

Needle: 3.0 mm
Yarn: Pickles Extra Fine Merino

The yarn is very nice, soft, with a good stitch definition.

Modifications: Two skiers are substituted with the initials of the recipient.
Ø is the 28th letter in the Norwegian alphabet.
(There are three letters after Z: Æ, Ø, Å)

The original Ilsetra hat also ended up as a 40th birthday gift.....

Red sweater redesign - a small tutorial

A sweater made more than twenty years ago - now with several stains.







I machine stitched and cut.











Zig-zag around the edges.








Picked up stitches for ribbing, around 2 sts every 3 rounds. K2, p2. Short rows for shaping around the neck. Four buttons holes.







Embroidery over the stains - and a bit more.









Fun with colours and stitches!








Stains gone!







Fake leather buttons.








Belt.








Et voilà! A new cardigan!








A fun project!











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