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Jeg har helt glemt at vise den færdige togtrøje, som jeg strikkede til Filcolanas kollektion. Den blev skam færdig, selvom jeg havde lidt svært ved at nå min egen deadline.
Nu er opskriften også færdig og korrekturlæst og oversat til engelsk, så nu er der nok ikke så længe til, at “Futfut” bliver frigivet ovre hos Filcolana. Jeg håber virkelig på, at der kommer til at være mange glade børn med togtrøjer her til efteråret.
I mellemtiden kan jeg berette af LB har bestilt sin næste trøje – en hvaltrøje – og at den skal være klar til jul (“så jeg kan være fin til juleaften, mor”).
I have forgotten to show that I actually did manage to finish the second train sweater, so Filcolana also has one for the fall collection. I’ll admit that I had a hard time finishing within my own deadline.
Now everything is coming together. The pattern has been written (and proofed), and translated to English. So I’m guessing it might not be too long before “Futfut” will be up on Filcolana’s webpage. I’m really hoping to see a lot of happy kids with train sweaters this fall.
In the meantime, I can announce that LB has ordered his next sweater – a whale sweater – and that it must be finished for Christmas (“so I can wear it for Christmas Eve, mommy”).
Tak for alle jeres overvejelser omkring deadlinestrik (og gode gæt på, hvornår jeg mon er færdig). Jeg er næsten færdig med det ene af ærmerne til togtrøjen, selvom det godt nok ikke betyder, at selve kroppen er færdig. Det er bare lidt mere besværligt at have kroppens mere krævende diagrammer at jonglere, når man sidder i et tog – så ærmet er blevet togtrøje-togstrik. Der er nu også (en lille smule) fremskridt på kroppen, så jeg føler mig nogenlunde fortrøstningsfuld over at kunne nå deadline. Jeg tror, at aftenens strik skal gå med at få toget til at dukke op over skinnerne…
Thank you for your comments about deadline knitting (and good guesses as to when I’m finished). I’ve almost finished knitting the first sleeve even though I’m far from finished with the body. I’ve just found that the big charts for the train on the body are a bit complicated for commute knitting (at least for me), so the sleeves are my go-to on-the-go project. I’ve made a (little) bit of progress on the body as well, so I’m feeling confident that I’m going finish before the deadline. I think that I’ll dedicate tonight to making the train appear on the tracks…
Jeg strikker efter en deadline lige nu. Jeg skal strikke endnu en togtrøje – eller Futfut, som den kommer til at hedde, så Filcolana også kan få en model (LB giver i hvert fald ikke sin fra sig). Den skal være færdig (inklusive hæftning af ender og vask) fredag eftermiddag, hvilket i en verden med et fuldtids økonomjob, jo så faktisk betyder torsdag aften. Billedet herunder er fra dagens togtur hjem fra arbejde (det føles så passende at strikke en togtrøje i et tog), så der er et stykke vej endnu (og nej, jeg er desværre ikke kommet længere).
I am deadline knitting at the moment. I need to knit another train jumper – or Futfut, as it will be named, so Filcolana can get a sample for their collection (LB certainly won’t be giving up his jumper). It needs to be finished (including weaving in ends and washing) next Friday afternoon, which in a world where I’m trying to be a serious economist during work hours means I need to finish it Thursday evening. The picture below is from the commute home from work today (it feels so utterly appropriate knitting a train jumper in a train), so there is a good deal left to knit (no, I haven’t made progress since then).
Jeg tænkte, at jeg ville gøre det en lille smule mere interessant, både for jer og for mig. Jeg har derfor bestemt mig for at lave en lille konkurrence, hvor en af jer kan vinde garn til en togtrøje, som så kan ligge klar til strik, når opskriften kommer ud på Filcolanas hjemmeside (det bliver en gratis opskrift).
Reglerne? Skriv i en kommentar til blogposten her og fortæl mig, hvordan du selv har det med deadline strik, og hvornår du tror, at jeg er færdig med at strikke denne lille togtrøje – dato og klokkeslæt (dansk tid) . Jeg må hellere definere, at færdig er det øjeblik, hvor trøjen bliver lagt i vand til vasken. Den, der kommer tættest på vinder New Zealand lammeuld i de 5 farver, han eller hun selv ønsker til sin version af togtrøjen, og den mængde der skal bruges til den ønskede størrelse. Jeg sender gerne garnet internationalt.
Kommentaren skal være afgivet senest søndag d. 10. april kl. 12.00 (middag) – så er der lukket for gætterierne. Så vil jeg prøve at holde jer opdateret med fremskridtet efter budrunden er lukket.
I have wondered how to make this a bit more interesting, both for you and for myself. So I’ve decided to make a little contest, where one of you can win the yarn for a train jumper, so it can be ready for knitting when the pattern is published by Filcolana (it will be a free pattern).
The rules? Write a comment to this post, and tell me how you feel about deadline knitting, and when you think I’ll be finished with the knitting on this little train jumper – date and time (CET). I’d better upfront define “finished” – it is the moment I put it in the water for washing. The person with the closest guess wins New Zealand lammeuld in the 5 colours, he or she decides for a train jumper, and enough of it to knit the wished for size. I’m more than happy to post internationally, so comments from abroad are more than welcome.
The comment must be placed before Sunday 10th of April at noon Danish time update: Betting is closed 🙂 I’ll keep you posted on the progress after guessing has been closed.
Der er en meget tilfreds 4-årig dreng i min familie lige nu. LB har fået sin togtrøje, og han er glad. Meget glad. Så glad at han faktisk ikke rigtig har ville have andre trøjer på siden han fik at vide, at nu var den (endelig) klar til at bruge.
There is an utterly satisfied 4-year old in my family at the moment. LB has (finally) received his train sweater, and he is happy. Very happy. So happy in fact that he has asked to wear it every day since it was ready for use.
Han har også fulgt meget nært med i processen. I starten blev der spurgt til fremskridtet flere gange om dagen, men da togtrøjen ikke skred helt så hurtigt frem som ønsket, faldt frekvensen af spørgsmålene. Dog kom han ofte med strikkeposen med trøje i og mente, at jeg da skulle strikke på den i stedet for alt muligt andet. Her den sidste måneds tid er der kun blevet spurgt til fremskridtet et par gange om ugen – måske var han ved at opgive håbet?
He has followed the process very closely. In the beginning he asked if it was finished at least a couple of times every day, but as the sweater didn’t seem to progress nearly as fast as he wished the frequency of the questions fell. Even so, he often brought me the project bag containing the sweater and told me to knit it (instead of whatever other project I was working on). During the last month or so, he has only asked once or twice a week – perhaps he was beginning to loose hope?
Trøjen er en test på et design, der kommer hos Filcolana, og den er da også strikket af det skønne New Zealand lammeuld. Det er nu bare et skønt garn, og blødt og fint efter vask. Det løber også langt, der går blot 120 gram til en størrelse LB. Nu skal den så bare strikkes op igen til Filcolana, for jeg tror næppe, at den unge herre vil gå med til at hans trøje bliver beslaglagt til kollektionsprøve.
The sweater is a test of a design, which will be part of a coming Filcolana collection, and therefore it is made from the wonderful New Zealand lammeuld. It is a lovely yarn, and soft and springy after washing. It also has a rather decent yardage, as I only needed 120 g for a size LB. Now I only need to work up another sample for Filcolana, as I happen to believe that the young gentleman will protest quite loudly if I suggest to appropriate his sweater for use as a collection sample.
Den var rigtig sjov at strikke og rimelig hurtig (hvis man da ikke lige medregner mine ærmeproblemer). Jeg kan ikke lade være med at få ideer til andre trøjer med flerfarvestrik til LB, men tiden i det nuværende strikkebudget er desværre ikke til den slags udskejelser, så det må blive ved tanken det næste stykke tid.
It was a fun knit, and also rather quick if you discount my slight sleeve problems. I’ve found myself thinking about making more stranded sweaters for LB, but at the moment my time budget for knitting is pretty full, so it will probably have to wait a while.
På ovenstående billede skulle man jo tro, at alt var fryd og gammen med LB’s togtrøje (bortset fra, at den måske ikke er helt så langt som hverken jeg eller særlig han synes den skulle)… men billedet lyver så det driver! Jeg har i den seneste uge været ramt af den værste strikkeforbandelse, jeg endnu har haft det uheld at støde ind i.
The picture above seems to show that all is well with LB’s train sweater (apart from the wee little fact that it’s not nearly as far along as he or I want it to be)… but the picture is a big fat lie! For the past week I have lived with the worst knitting curse I have yet had the misfortune to encounter.
Billedet her er fra sidste weekend, hvor jeg kulturerede i Hamborg med min mor, og den skarpe iagttager vil se, at ærmet synes at være en del længere på det billede. Helt korrekt – det er ærmets anden inkarnation, der nærmer sig det sted, hvor jeg indser, at jeg endnu en gang har strikket det for smalt. Der blev bandet en hel del, da den erkendelse bundfældede sig.
This picture is from Saturday, where I was enjoying myself in Hamburg with my mother, and the keen reader will spot that the sleeve seemed to be further along at that point. Perfectly right – this was the second (!) incarnation, which at that point was nearing the place where I once again realized that I had knit it too narrow. I had quite a selection of inventive words, when that realization settled in.
Den eneste grund til at hele projektet ikke er smidt i skammekrogen er at LB virkelig, virkelig glæder sig til den. Især efter at toget nu kan ses så tydeligt på trøjen. Han kommer nogle gange hen med kroppen og siger, at jeg mangler den, når jeg strikker på ærmet. Derfor har jeg bidt i det sure æble og er nu på tredje inkarnation af ærmet – denne gang ser det helt rigtigt ud. Som en sidebemærkning kan jeg ikke lade være med at konstatere at New Zealand lammeuld også strikker pænt og fint, selv når det har været pillet op to gange.
The only reason for not having a major fit and throwing the whole project into a dark corner is that LB really, really look forward to this sweater. Especially after the train has been knit on the body. Sometimes he brings me the body when I am knitting on (one of the incarnations of) the sleeve and says that I’ll need the body as well. So I’ll suck up my bad knitting karma and knit this third version as well – this time it looks right. As a side note I can state that New Zealand lammeuld holds up really well to this sort of abuse – it’s perfectly fine to knit and look at with even after being ripped back twice.
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