Hi - I'm back!

I've been spinning, knitting and crocheting all summer, and I think my blog mojo is here too, lets try:

A little bit more about the socks from my last post:



Pattern: My own toe-up, gusset heel socks - love them!
Yarn: Schachenmayr nomotta Regia Silk Color, 1.2 skeins = 261.6 yards (239.2m)
Needle: US 1½ / 2.5 mm


My first buy this year (!):

Black lace weight yarn, over 600 gram:



I better find some shawl patterns I like....


Last September I learned to spin with a drop spindle. I haven't been that eager, but have spun up 100 grams this year, why not buy 700 grams.... (crazy):



And look how far I am in spinning it up:



Yeah....

The wool is bright red, and not easy to take a photo of.


Thank you all for visiting and commenting this summer - I think I'm back :)

Regional Destash Competition

The members of the Craft forum "Hobbyboden" (Norwegian) is having a regional destash competiton starting this evening. I'm in team Oslo and we are ready to fight (read:knit) of the competitors from the rest of Norway.

I'm ready with heavy yarn and big needles - the competition is judged by weight.

Pronto:




Wool-yarn for felting:




In the meantime I'm knitting socks:



The yarn is beatiful, soft merino wool that I got from Karipia. Love, love, love it!

Ravel it!



And YAY! we sold our flat today :D


Have a nice weekend!

Stash

(old pic)

I bought and used 11 kg yarn in 2008.

Stash: 29 kg yarn (same as last year).

hm...

Fun for the new knitting year

I've restartet my KnitMeter, ready for 2009



I've already knitted 220 meter (240 yards) for my first socks this year, soon the second pair is done. :)

Last year (using the KnitMeter) I knitted 12 000 meter (13 100 yards) May to December.
(This is mostly a reminder to self).

Get your own KnitMeter here

Still havn't looked through my stash...


Jeg "teller" det jeg strikker vha KnitMeter. I fjor fikk jeg visst 12 000 meter garn til å bli noe strikket eller heklet (mai til desember). :)

Hvis du har lyst på ditt eget tellesystem er det link ovenfor her.

Det er enda "et par" nøster i lageret mitt (hehe), jeg skal prøve å veie det snart *lover*

Gift

Guess what I got - a gift - for no real reason at all:



Thank you so much, Marianne G. A pair of socks are already on my needles :))

New yarn

A new LYS has opened right by my workplace, a beautiful and big store, Congrats to Maud! I have no need for yarn, but I had to buy these:



Very cheap Opal cotton sockyarn. :)

New yarn

I'm the lucky new owner of this beautiful sockyarn:



Stong-Art from Gepard




Maxime print from Flatura Di Crosa. My first merino-yarn. *jummy*

This was a gift from Paren at Hobbyboden. Thank you so much! I promise to make some beautiful soft socks!

STASH!

The summer of stash....

I've been organizing my stash....

I have 31 kg of yarn. I have no idea how many yards that is, but I'm sure it's more than "a lot"...




Dette er garn og diverse hobbyting. 31 kg garn... og nok papir til å lage tusenvis av julekort. Jeg har ca. 40 stempler. Jeg har aldri prøvd noen av dem...

Maja, stakkars, er blitt allergisk mot strikkepinnene sine.



Jeg er heldigvis ikke allergisk, og i tillegg veldig glad for påfyll i mitt lager, så i dag har jeg sittet i sola og sortert og ordnet. :)



Ellers kan det lønne seg å besøke den samme jenta. Se hva jeg kom hjem med:



Hmm - deilig sokkegarn!

Og her er det absolutt mykeste kosegarnet jeg har møtt:



Pep fra Lana Grossa

Og her er Pep Mohair:



Tusen takk!

Yarn and more yarn

I bought yarn. A lot of yarn.

We (my husband and me) drove to SandnesGarn on Saturday and I ended up buying 8.7 kg of yarn. It took about 5 minutes. And I totaly forgot that I was there to buy sockyarn. That's me...

Here is what I bought:



It's Alfa, Smart, Fritidsgarn, Mandarin, Pronto, Mirelle, Tove, Rondo and Tresko.

It makes me happy to have all this new yarn in the house, but I've better find something big to knit really soon, the storage space is limited in this flat.



Still a podcast fan:

A shout-out: Have you listened to Meghan at Stitch it! Podcast? You should! A lot of fun. A really nice podcast and one of my new favorites!