Prosjekt: Strikk en sykkel

På fredag var det en spennende artikkel i Laagendalsposten. Overskriften var "strikk en sykkel". Bakgrunnen er at Norges Husflidlag er 100 år iår, og siden Kongsberg er en såkalt sykkelby, ville Kongsberg Husflidlag markere dette med å strikke inn sykler og plassere rundt i byen. Dette synes jeg var et morsomt påfunn, så jeg møtte opp for å få en oppgave. Og det var ikke så mange som hadde kommet, mulig pga. strålende vær..., så de var glade for at jeg ville stille opp. I første omgang har jeg fått denne stanga, men det er nok ikke vanskelig å få lov til å lage mer. Har litt lyst til å lage hjultrekk. De er heklet. Vi får se hva som skjer, for stangtrekket var veldig raskt å lage når jeg brukte tykt garn og pinner. Sykkelen jeg er med på skal gå i blåtoner, med innslag av rød/burgunder farge.

Se, hun blogger!

Hmmm, fant ut at nå var det på tide å vise noe igjen, og noen har sett noe av dette før, men det får ikke hjelpe. I Sølvtråden lappelag hadde vi i høst noe som heter "hategave"!! Dvs. man tar noen stoffer og litt stasj man ikke liker, pakker det inn og gir det til noe andre som skal få noe brukbart ut av det. Dette var litt morsomt, og det jeg fikk utdelt av materialer ser dere her. Man hadde lov til å legge til noe av eget "lager" også. Jeg bestemte meg for å sy en dorullholder! Og dette ble resultatet av min hategave.

I forbindelse med 10 års jubileet til Sølvtråden, hadde vi et lotteri. Da måtte alle lage premier, og siden jeg var inne i do-rullholder stimen, så lagde jeg en til som premie også.

Min venninne Lisbet ønsket seg mobilhus til bursdagen sin, og sånn ser det ut på den ene siden..

...og dette er andre siden. :-) Det er for øvrig heklet som en lang remse og så heklet sammen i siden.

Sykurs med Susan Dahlberg

Igår var jeg på sykurs med Susan Dahlberg fra Sverige, som er kjent for sine fantastiske bilder hvor hun syr med chiffoner. For uinnvidde er det tynne gjennomsiktige stoff, som legges oppå hverandre for å oppnå skygger, duse ned farger eller forsterke dem. Hun bruker et tykt stoff som bakgrunn og dette er gjerne et batikkstoff eller malt.

Det var iallefall veldig gøy å lære teknikken og Susan å kjenne, og her er mitt resultat av Blomstereng. (Det øverste bildet) De andre bildene er det de andre sydde

A small english resume:

This is the result from yesterdays sewing course with Susan Dahlberg from Sweden. She is known from her fantastic pictures sewn with chiffons, so they look as they are painted. It was a great course.

Hello everybody, I`m back again ;-)

Long time no see from me. Well, in the summer I get a little lazy with everything, also handicrafts and blogging, but I have made something, and here you can see it.This mobilehouse, I made during our faboulus trip to the States in the end of May. I was crocheting, while Bjørn was driving :-). This is my newest project, a typical Hilde design of a pair of pot holders. Here made in Retro-style with colors from the 1970`s. But the colors are a bit more clear than they seems to be on this picture. And this is an old fashioned pattern, called pineapple pattern, because of the shape that appears on this small crocheted table cloth. It is made with a crochet pin 1,25 mm, so it was very tiny, but fun to make.And this is a patch, made from wool, from the dog, named Frigg, at the top of the page. That was a hard thing to do, but when I started to wash the wool inside this plastic, with the rubber gloves it finally were kept together. The red heart is a piece of yarn from alpacca goat. It is also washed in while I tried to make the dog-wool to one piece Well, this is what I had from the summer production, but I promise to come back soon.

So long, and have a great time! :-)

And something creative

In october I started to make this knitted dress. And now Im finished ;-) I had to knit the bottom edge a second time but it was worth it.

Believe it or not, but for the whole dress I only used 200 gram of yarn!! So it is so light and comfortable to wear.

Eirik`s confirmation

Hi everybody!

Long time no see...because I have been busy with the preparations for the confirmation. Beside two conserts with "my" choir...But now everything is finished, I can relax and do a lot of other stuff and prepare for my holiday to the States in 2 weeks :-D So first I want to share some pics from my sons confirmation. Because of this terrible programme "#¤&%&/%&/)&/&/) Im getting really mad!!, I don`t manage to get the photoes where I want them, so they come in a real mess, but with some explaining text.

This is a cake for celebration in Norway (and maybe other places too), called "whinches-cake" free translation! ha-ha It is made of almonds and egg-white and sugar. And I bought it from an expert.

This is my gelly-cake and is also made of a bottom of almonds, and gelly, some of it mixed with whipped cream, and it is very good to put fresh strawberrys or raspberries into it. This is a marzipan-cake from the lokal baker, with a photoprint on ricepaper on it. Very qute pict. of Eirik 2 years old. This is the flowers where Eirik was sitting

Eirik and Bjørn

Eirik is wishing everybody welcome to his celebration

And this is the name-card I made for every-one. Eirik is very fond of soccer

And a small glimt of the room and the table at Kongsberg Vandrerhjem, where we had the celebration. Very nice place.

Everything turned out well, and Eirik was very satisfied with the day, and so were Bjørn and I

Springtime and easter. Yeah,-feeling alive :-)

Hi everybody! I am so happy nowadays because the snow is melting pretty fast and I can look foreward to green grass and flowers and the smell of earth. Mmm :-) But right now it is easter holiday in Norway (and a lot of other places as well) so I want to share some history with you. This year is kind of special since Anders, my oldest son, is in Nashville as exhange student with Per and Zandra, and Eirik my youngest son is 14 and does not think it is funny to go skiing etc. Therefore I will show some old easter pics. This one is from the easter 2003, taken at the top of Blefjell. Anders, Bjørn and I had a beautiful ski-trip.

Ha-ha, and this is the same year of Eirik and Tor Håkon, who are trying to dry their wet socks over the barbeque. Maybe they tried to eat them as well with ketchup and mustard ;-) Yammi, yammi..

This beautiful picture is from 2004, when we were in Voss and had a wonderful ski-trip at Rong and could see down at the Hardangerfjord. I really love this one <3

Here we are visiting uncle Halvor in Sømådalen, which is stated middle/east in Norway near the famous lake Femunden and not very far from Sweden. From 2005

Here is Anders and Bjørn at Blefjell by the fire, barbequing sausages. We also have marsmallows to barbeque.

And what is this?? Yes, this is some of my frog-collection. You now may think I am a bit crazy, and yes I am! I have a hang up to frogs in all kind of varieties, but prefer to have them "dead" at least inside the house...

More from the same table, but just a small part of my total collection. I guess I have abt. 40-50 different kind of frogs in a lot of materials. Maybe I show you some more of it later....

easter ornaments made by the kids a looong time ago.

...and here are some nice ones made of ceramics, also made by the kids :-)

These woolen chickens, I have made some years ago, except from the one in the middle, which is bought

And finally som sign of life from my garden. These are growing at the south side of the house... .....together with these qute blue ones.... ...along this flowerbed (?) is that the right word for it?

While at the north side of our house the snow will stay for at least 3-4 weeks I think.

HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE ! ;-)

Hilde