Arkiv for desember 2006|månedlig arkivside

New product finished.

I have begin to make booze bag, first I knit them and them they are felted.
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But I have also spin a little bit on my one of my new Bosworth drop spindles, it is aussie merino&silk blend. Love the fiber, so easy to spin with. On the photos I have begin to ply.
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Ellie think it is better to take life easy :P
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And some new angora shawl, they will be sold in my webshop.
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And then it is 15 December.

Wow, how the days are going to fast, 9 days to christmas has to hurry now getting all the christmas present ready.

Wednesday 13 December, I arranged for our knitting guild christmasmuch wiht of course a almond in. Synne was so lucky to get the alomnd in here much so she got the large marzipan pig, don’t know if other countries has this tradiotion but it is a fun party to arranged for good friends ore family.
Else Santa come with presents to us all, here is what I got from “Santa” Anne: A beautiful red scarf, and a little purse I can have all the small knitting item in. Thank you so much Anne :)
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Here is from the left, Anne, Vivi, Tittei, Tutten and Dyveke pc130014.jpg
From right Synne, Dolci and Elimor
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Later the evning Lise come buy, she is a teacher on the middle level and have a lot to doe before christmas with middle term, grade that the student shall have. But it was very good that she could take time to join us :P

Lazy day.

Today, ore well we have past midnight so in the theory it is monday. But well, well it has been a quiet day, it is a terrible heavy rainy day. So even the dogs was agree, that we could stay inndoors today.

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I have knitted a booze bag, it looked gigant when it was finish knitted. Then it was time to felted in the washing machin, well don’t know what happen. But it felted together inside, so I had to draft it apart. So then I felted one more time in the washing machin, this time at 60 degree. But the results was good, I think :P The patterns is Dyvekes.

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Large skein with angora finish.

Oh, my oh my. This is the largest skein I have spun and plyed, 255 gram and 779 m (874 yards).

Here the yarn is on the plying bobbin, as you can see I have not filled up the bobbin. So I could have plyed more.
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Hanging over the Little Gem 2
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And here it is on the pillow.
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The news said that it had rain every day since 18 October, and yes it is raining, blowing, thunder and lightning. A lot more then what we are used to, we have not had the snow in oct./nov. for 1 week.
But today, I so some blue sky so I took the dogs out for a walk in the woods. It was very weet, and since I got out so late. We went in the dark, but I had a flashlight with me so at least I could se where I was going. The dogs was running and did’nt bother about the darkness, but we had a lovely walk.

Charlie and Ellie taking a rest after the trip.
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More koolaid handyed angora yarn.

This time it became the color I wanted, and also I rememberd to write down the colors I used :)

But sorry Bergen’s lady this yarn is not for sales :P

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How the days just fly away.

As normaly it is very busy, it has been a new spinning guild with my angora friends in Litleskare – Nordhordaland and then stright home to have knitting guild at my place at the evening all this on Wednesday. I rely must begin to check my schedule before I am arrangin this guild. Some days in the office, Saturday, sales mess for some hours then stright home, cleaning in the angora stable, and then stright to the airport to go to Oslo. My new nephew was going having his batism. And now it is rely time to get finish with the christmas gift. Tired oh now, :) Charlie and Elli was sleeping over at Charlotte, Charlie found a playmate there and was also tired :)

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Yesterday I Merete and Tutten had there knitting birthday parties togheter. A very nice evening, with lots of goodie to eat.

Yesterday the KoolAid I won on ebay come, just 100 packet ore well I won 200 packet. But 100 packet are going to Bente.
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Today I have done some new pot dying, yesterday I also drop in to Ikea and bought a new larger glas pot. So today I have to tried it to dye with :P I used 3 packet of Rasberry reaction and 2 packet of Changin Cherry.
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