STARTITIS AND OTHER VIRA

On Thursday afternoon last week, my voice started sounding weird. Like I had screamed a lot with out using the right technique or something like that. I have had voice coaching professionally and I know that I take good care of it, so I didn’t understand what...

NOT FO: THE OWL SWEATER

This was supposed to be an FO (finished object) post – but it turned into a UFO (Unfinished object, naturally). I had finshed knitting this sweater on May 1st. Then it just sat on my dress form while I contemplated weaving in ends and blocking it. Because...

WEEK-END WITH TINI

So this week-end I’ve been visiting my very good friendĀ  (and podcast co-host) Tini while she was on vacation with her family in Denmark. It has actually been a year since we last saw each other and it was wonderful to be together in the same room again. There...

MINIKREA PATTERN GIVEAWAY!

We are interrupting this blog posting about t-shirts with a small announcement… :-) Yep! I’m doing a GIVEAWAY! I’m going to be an aunt (second time, different brother) in October and to celebrate I’m giving away 4 MiniKrea kids patterns (with...

SEWING ROOM TOUR

So I thought, that maybe you would like to see where I work with fabric and yarn and books and paper. I got a room of my own the summer before last, when we suddenly had two teen-agers in the house and my workspace on the upstairs landing was getting a...
Good knits last!

Good knits last!

I am writing this from the green house where i am enjoying the sun and the relatively warm air. It’s freezing outside and there is ice on the water, but in here it’s 15 celcius and i’m feeling warm wearing an Icelandic wool sweater that my...