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(sorry only English this time) I guess we had a bit too much time on our hands in this evenings knitting cafe… but boy, was it fun! I hereby present 5 womens suggestions for good knitting movies!

• Karate Knit (cast-on, cast-off )
• I know what you knit last summer (don’t get hooked)
• Termiknitter (I’ll knit back…)
• Dirty Knitting (when one stitch is not enough)
• Scary Knit I, II and III (we call them acryllic, nylon and rayon!)
• Casablanket (we’ll always knit in Paris)
• Stitch Wars (may the gauge be with you)
• Knitter’s in the Caribbean – The curse of the black purl!
• Knitty Woman (I never treated you like a hooker)
• Star Trekking (where no sock yarn has ever gone before)
• Titaknit (I’m the king of the purl)
• Yarnia (which lion is in your wardrobe?)
• One stitch over the cuckoo’s nest (knitting close to madness)
• You got Rail (meeting love via Ravelry’s mail)
• Gauge of the Jungle (me knit, you purl?)
• A Knit’s Tale (we will, we will block you!)
• My Fair-isle Lady (the fly in the dye wont be seen when you ply)
• The Little Mermaid (Falkenberg for kids)
• Lost in Translation (true in many patterns)
• Rib Roy (featuring scottish tweed)
• Evilla (don’t ply for me Argentina)
• The Block (good action for manly sweaters)
• Hang’em Dry (what every knitwear needs)
• Knitmare on Elm Street (work your guts in garter)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!!! (a handy sorting for your wips)
• Dye Hard (KoolAid action)
• Lord of the Strings (well, we all have yarns that just are… precioussss!!!)
• The Knitmare before Christmas (just ask the Yarnharlot)
• Purl Harbor (one last stitch before we sink)
• Men in Black (why oh why do we knit for them?)
• Once upon a time in a vest (now without sleeves)

If you have any suggestions for further fun knitting movies, please share them with us all in the comments.

Jeg har haft gevaldige problemer med at finde min strikke-mojo på det sidste, så nu er jeg gået til yderlighederne. Lokkemad!!! Noget måtte gøres, så nu har jeg lusket rundt i diverse garnbikser og snuset og set og følt og indkøbt (bare en smule).
Det er blevet til et køb af en Mini til min kusines kommende bebs (… babystrikketøj, det må være vejen frem, det er jo så småt) og noget skønt Drops alpaca i endnu skønnere farver, som jeg lurer på skal være et par luffer. Endelig har skønne Mie sendt en syndig omgang fristelser (hvor er det dog skønt at være holdt designer), som bl.a. skal blive til endnu en Tane’s Leaves (teststrikning af opskriften).

Fælden er sat. Mon min mojo lader sig friste?

I have had a lot of trouble locating my knitting mojo recently, so now I’m readying the big guns. Bait!!! Something clearly had to be done, which resulted in me oozing through a LYS (or two) seeing, feeling and buying (just a tad).
So far I’ve invested in a Mini for my cousin’s little baby, who will be joining the world in June (… baby clothes, that has to be a solution, after all it is tiny), and some gorgeous Drops Alpaca in the most wonderful colours that seems to be wanting to be a couple of mittens. Finaly the great and wonderful Mie has sent a delightful parcel full of knitting goodies (it is good to be a kept designer), some of it will become another Tane’s Leaves (as I have to test-knit the pattern).

The trap is set, bait laid out. Will my mojo be tempted?

Der er sket noget stort!!! Jeg er nu “officielt” designer, for nu er det første af mine designs sat til salg. Og det synes jeg alligevel skulle markeres her på bloggen.

I kan finde Efeu som kit hos Nusse&Nøkle. Garnet er det ultralækre Organik, som er en blanding af uld, alpaca og silke – ren luksus. Lige nu udbydes opskriften kun på dansk, men jeg arbejder på en oversættelse til engelsk.

Something big (at least it’s big in my world) has happened!!! I am now “officially” a designer as my first design has just hit the store. I really thought that this at least deserved a notice on the blog.

You can buy Efeu as at Nusse&Nørkle as a kit. The yarn is the super delicious Organik, which is a blend of wool, alpaca and silk – pure goodness. For now, the pattern is only available in Danish, but I am working on an English translation.

Alt i dag minder mig om New Zealand. Roen i mit indre, måden lyset falder på, blæstens susen og selv trafikken på Nørrebrogade (hvilket egentlig er meget mærkeligt)… måske jeg bare savner at være der?

Everything reminds me of New Zealand today. The calmness in my soul, the way the light cuts through the skies, the sound of the wind, and even the trafic on Nørrebrogade (which is really strange actually)… maybe I just miss being there?

• 1661 – antal downloads af mine gratis opskrifter / no. of downloads of my free patterns
• 166 – fotos i min flickr / photos in my flickr
• 1798 – dage sammen med min elskede (foreløbig) / days with my love (so far)
• 15 – pandekager i stakken til dessert / crepes ready for dessert
• 12 – gennemsnitlig søvntimeantal i ugen (det sidste før det nye semester)… / average hours of sleep this week (the last before new semester)
• 26 – ECTS point jeg mangler inden specialet / ECTS points I need before writing my thesis
• 99 (74) – antal feeds (og ulæste posts) i min bloglines / no. of feeds (and unread posts) in my bloglines
• 11 – det sande antal strikkeprojekter i gang / the true number of projects on the needles
• 4 – poser snavsetøj klar til vask / bags of laundery ready for washing
• 6 – dage i ugen fra nu med dejlige aftaler / days in the week from now with wonderful arrangements
• 24 – et af mine yndlingstal / one of my favorite numbers
• 2 – nr. sæson af en vis serie, som Magen får i fødselsdagsgave / no. season of a certain series that the Mate will get in birthday present
• 39026 – antal visninger af min blog siden tælleren blev sat op / no. page views of my blog since the counter was activated
• 89 – dage til vi tager til New York / days until we go to New York
• 62 – timer til min første forelæsning på semesteret / hours until my fist lecture of the semester
• 16 – mærkelige ting på denne list (dog alle sande) / strange informations on this list (all of them true)

Rokken er nu fri… rimelig vildt at skrive, eftersom for bare et par dage siden var der både alpaca og merino, der forhindrede tweed spinderiet. Men jeg har haft et par dage, hvor jeg har brugt et par (eller flere, hmmm) timer ved dyret, og det er der kommet garn ud af. Hjemmespundet, lækkert garn (når jeg nu selv skal sige det!).

The wheel is now free… pretty awsome to write that considering that only a couple days ago I had both alpaca and merino on it that prevented the spinning of my tweed. But the last few days has brough a few (hmmm, to be honest, many) spinning hours, which has resulted in yarn. Yummy, handspun, delicious yarn (if I have to say so myself!).

Det brune er alpaca, første portion af forhåbentlig et par stykker. Der er 98 gram og 380m, som jeg regner med skal strikkes til et sjal en gang, når resten af portionen er spundet. Det grønne er merino fra Vævestuen, der er 100 gram og 309 m. Begge blev købt i ulden form på Fåreavlernes Julemarked (men jeg har stadig en del af indkøbene tilbage at lege med!).

The brow yarn is pure alpaca, first portion of a couple. In this skein there is 98 grams and 380 m, which hopefully will become a shawl sometime when the rest is spun to match. The green is merino from Vævestuen, the skein is 100 grams and 309 m. Both were purchased in woolen form at the Sheep Breeders Christmas Fair in late November (but I still have plenty of my shopping left to play with!).

Det er måske en smule overmodigt at offentliggøre mønsteret på et par sokker, når man faktisk kun har strikket den ene… Men pyt! SSS kan komme an, de skal nok blive færdige for de er überfede, når man er HP fan, som jeg.

Go Gryffindor er den første sok i en serie af fire, som er min hyldest til de fire huse i Hogwarts. Hver af sokkerne vil have husbogstavet og emblemet og selvfølgelig strikket i husfarverne!

Opskriften er på engelsk og kan hentes her.

I admit that it might be a slight bit risky to publish a sock pattern, when you actually only have one knitted… But what the h*ll! SSS can just come calling, because there is no doubt that I will finish these because they are way too cool to live as an ufo when you are as big a HP fan as I am.

Go Gryffindor is the first pattern in a series of four, which will constitute my tribute to the Houses of Hogwarts. Each of the socks sport the House letter and the emblem and will of course be knitted in the House Colors!

The pattern is in English and can be downloaded here.

Jeg har fået en award fra Tina. Tak skal du have, det gjorde mig rigtig, rigtig glad. Selvom jeg kan se på tælleren, at der er nogle der besøger min blog, er det rart at vide, at der også er nogle der læser… selvom det ved jeg jo også fra alle jeres dejlige kommentarer.

I have received an award from Tina. Thank you so much, it made me really really happy. Even though my counter tells me that I have visitors, it is good to know that I have readers as well… though that information is pretty well given through all your wonderful comments as well.

Nu skal jeg så vælge 10 som jeg vil give knuset videre til, og det er svært, for jeg læser mange flere end 10 blogs. Men jeg har valgt, og alle jer der ikke kom på listen, vil jeg gerne sige, at I er også med til at gøre mine dage gode!

Now I have to choose 10 blog writers to give the award to, and it is pretty hard, because I read many blogs (a whole lot more than 10). But I have chosen and all of you, that didn’t make the list, I want to tell you, that you all are part of making my day much better!

• Fru Toft
• Knitting by Kaae
• Wollie Wanderings
• The Sun Boat
• By Beckmann
• Lose Yarn’s and UFOs
• Strik til Marsvin
• Stumbling over Chaos
• KnitTina
• Grendesign

Til jer alle, tak for nogle skønne øjeblikke, på bloggen og irl. Jeg får mange smil fra jer og gode tanker, når jeg læser med hos jer.

To you all, thank you for wonderful moments, on the blog and irl. I have smiled often and gotten loads of good thoughts and positive vibrations when reading your blogs.