Cavalos marinhos - portuguese sea horses

I'm happy to announce that my sea horse mittens

are available in Portuguese!

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Translation is by Susana (Acucena on Ravelry).

Obrigada, Susana!! Thank you!

My corset tank top

I finished my corset tank top this summer - it was a fun knit, easier than I thought it would be, and the result is even better than I hoped. It's definitely a pattern I would recommend to lace newbies, and I might make it again.

I used Brilla from my stash. Didn't think of this pattern at first, but then I searched Ravelry projects that had used Brilla, and I found Marnie's tank. I asked her how much she had used, and saw that I would probably have enough. Isn't Ravelry a great resource? (Later I realised my skeins were not the same lot, and the nuances were quite different. So I bought some multicoloured Brilla, and worked 1-4 rounds og yellow and 1-3 of multicoloured.) I used appr. 6 skeins altogether.

Looks strange when not worn..

Modifications: Worked in the round - partly because the colour changes made that the easiest, partly because I don't like purling, partly because I don't like sewing buttons (all in all - because I'm lazy...)

New blog design

I was happy when I managed to get a left sidebar earlier this summer. But after a while I dicovered some bugs - some links weren't showing properly, they would only show when you moved the mouse over them - a little annoying. So I redid everything, this time using a free template from bloggerbuster. I think it's ok now. I don't like spending so much time on these things. I had to redo some of the widgets in the sidebar, but I got the label cloud I've been wanting automatically.

More interesting, Twist Collective Autumn 2009 is up. I have just browsed it quickly, and these are my faves so far: Piper by Christa Giles, and Vine yoke cardigan by Ysolda Teague.

Nice things seen in Gothenburg

"Kram zon" = Hugging zone


I also found a nice yarn store, Strikk.
"Strikk" means "knit" in Swedish
(and in Norwegian, these are closely related languages)

Summer holiday hat production

It's been a rainy summer...

The patterns will soon be available, Norwegian team hats here, Arsenal here and Holland here.

The Half-Blood Prince and Luna Lovegood Scarf

The other day I saw the new Harry Potter movie, wearing my Luna Luneskjær Scarf - Luna Lovegood in English. The Norwigian translator of the Harry Potter books, Torstein Bugge Høverstad, has translated also many of the names in the books. The names often have allusions and connotations in English, that otherwise would be lost in the Norwegian text. I have read somewhere that he could do this, because he was one of the first to translate the books, later the names were copyrighted. Some doesn't like this, especially those who first read the books in English. I do like his tranlations, although I had some difficulties when reading the last book in English (couldn't wait for the Norwegian translation to see what happened to Harry.) There are several online dictionaries, this, for example, so you can easily find a translation if you wonder.

But back to the scarf - this is a fiber crafting blog, after all. I loved the pattern, it's easy to remember, and the result is lovely. I used a cotton/viscose blend, Brilla, from Filatura di Crosa, and hook 3 mm, which I think was perfect for the pattern. I used 2 skeins, and had to omit the picot edging because I ran out of yarn. But it's nice, anyway. The pattern is by pinkleo, and you can find it here.

Vål'enga hat

Another football hat is finished, Vålerenga Fotball (VIF):

I'm not a dedicated football fan, but VIF is a club that is close to my heart, the team comes from the part of Oslo where my mother grew up.



I had a look in Wikipedia: "Up to 1913, Vålerenga's kit was moss green. In 1914, the Norwegian State Railways had a set of blue and red kits left over, which Vålerenga bought cheaply, so their official colours became blue and red." When I made the Fredrikstad hat, I learnt that they chose their colours after a match against Poland, they liked the colours of the Polish flag. So the chose of a team's colours is obviously quite arbitrary.. (That is, if you can trust Wikipedia).


It was harder than I thought to turn their logo into knitting. I should probably have chosen at thinner yarn. With a smaller gauge, it would work well in colourwork, I think. But with my aran Free Style from Dale, I ended up embroidering the logo. If I'm persuaded to make another VIF hat, I'll do it in a fingering yarn. But next up is probably another Oslo team, Skeid, from the part of town where my father grew up. They've played in the Norwegian premier league for a long time, but not since 1999. (I'm amazed that all these Norwegian football teams have Wikipedia articles in English..)

Pattern is ready, in Norwegian. See here.