WELCOME TO STAVANGER!

A beautiful morning in Stavanger

and I will like to invite you on my morning walk

around my home town

When the weather is nice like today

it is like the old town is waking up

just within a month the harbour will be filled with cruise ships

and the narrow streets of  "old Stavanger"

with it's beautiful old white houses

will be filled with the colours of summer flowers

and hundreds of people visiting  

from all over the world

visit the canning museum

or just take a stroll around

This summer will be filled with activites around the harbour

with the Tall ships race, beach volleyball, food festival

just to have mentioned a few....

VELKOMMEN!

I hope you like my walk this morning,

enjoy and welcome to Stavanger!

FIGGJO turi - design

I started a few years ago to collect these.

I could not decide if I would collect the green serie called "market"

or the blue one, called "Lotte"

So I started to buy a some of each

Both patterns was designed by Turi Gramstad Oliver who

started with Figgjo in 1960

Finally I made up my mind, and the green ones need to leave me...

To make room for more of the "Lotte" design...

Which of the designs did you like the best?

Do you want to trade?



KNITTING FOR MYSELF

Just for myself this time, I have knitted a neck and mitts.

Used a luxurious knitting yarn with a blend of Qiviuk

(a kind of bison) merino wool and silk.

A good friend gave it to me last year,

I used it all, just a tiny little bit left.
Both patterns found on Ravelry.

Beautiful weather this morning, maybe it will last

for the week end

The garden is ready for a little yard work

Baked bread again today

And the little ones are back to school after a week

home with the flu

Have a wonderful week end!

DID I SAY SPRING......

Well, I think spring will wait a little longer, we woke up

one morning with snow again...

I have been to the antique store and found this

beautiful things.....

Spring is in my window

and the twins enjoy the snow

Early morning in kindergarten

Saturday today, we have a cake in the oven

and good friends are coming for dinner!

Have a nice day!

WOOLMEISE

I got my first skein of  Woolmeise yarn,

the color is "Granatapfel"

 and I knitted this

simple scarf in just garter stitches.

I found the pattern on Ravelry and it is called

"Hitchhiker". I followed the pattern, just added

some beads.

I have to admit, I have already got my second

skein of  Woolmeise in house for my next

project....

We enjoy the quiet week of winter break in town

baking and knitting!



SPRING IS HERE!

We went for a walk around the lake today in wonderful sunshine.

It is the winterbreak week in Stavanger this coming

week and we are staying home and hopefully enjoy

more of beautiful days like today

most of the ice on the lake has melted

you can nearly hear the spring flowers are popping up..

Just a few more months and we will have green grass



We always pass this house on our way home,

I think it is such a nice house

and we have a little bit of Texas around our lake....

Hope you all enjoy your week end like we do!!

A COLD WEEK

Winter returned to Stavanger last week with snow for a few days

I had two of my big quilts washed and hung out to dry

and they both turned out great

even this one, which has wool batting.

I always use color catcher, just incase some

of the fabrics will bleed

It was nice with some sunny days

Bread is baked and another week has started

Have a creative week everyone!

You will find me in my sewing room....



FOR SALE!

Two "old" projects are finally finished.

The jacket is handknitted in 100% wool.

Handwash only and the size is S.

The sweater is a classic cable sweater. It is a lot of

work, and it has moved from Norway to USA twice

on the knitting needles!

Unfortunatelly, the size is too small for me,

this is probably a size XS.

Handknitted, 100% wool, handwash.

If you are interested in any of these, let me know

and I can send you measurements!

Have a nice Sunday!

Never too late...

to finish a project. Here it is, nearly finished for years..

My plan was to hand quilt the outer border, but when

I found a roll of "Borders made easy", I quickly changed

my mind.

The twins have got new hats. A friend had one on her blog,

and we found the pattern here.

These hats are so quick and fun to knit, I have

already made a new one for the princess,

hers was a bit too big

Baked nice bread today, I am  on this bread

baking wave lately....and it is fun, when they turn out

 like these

Talking about waves, it has been very windy in Stavanger.

 We drove out to the beach and watched the surfers waiting for the

perfect wave, look closely and you can see them

This is my next "old" project to finish, and as you can see

from the picture, we woke up to a new winter this morning,

two happy children talked about snowmen on their

way to kindergarten...

Stay warm everyone!

TRAVELING TWINS!

This year also started out with a long travel, this time

we all needed visas for our trip.

 We traveled to Baku in Azerbaijan

It was an interesting trip, but we are glad to

be back home. Baku is not a place where we

will like to move.

We traveled via Heathrow, London.

On the way back we had a 5 hrs wait at Heathrow

and the twins checked out the big bear at Harrods.

Spending several days at a hotel can be boring for two

little ones

but the hotel had alot of room where they could run

The jacket is done, but I need to get some new buttons.

Have a nice week!