This Sunday I had invited some friends to my home to knit together. I had made some fika (coffee, tea, gingerbread, saffron bread and stuff) for us. Sandy brought some brie and dark chocolate for us, and also a present for me! She gave me some vanilla scented candles in a pretty little box, I really appreciated the gift. Thank you Sandy!

We were knitting, crocheting and one of us were doing some embroidering while we were chatting and having a great time.I started crocheting a pair of half mitts which I now almost have finished. I have to buy and add some buttons, nine for each mitt! I don’t know when I will be able to get into town and buy those.

Thank you girls for coming and visit! I’m planning to do this again soon!


Sandy knitting socks and Kajsa embroidering


Lea, also knitting socks, Åsa crocheting a toy and Maria knitting a vest


Åsa and Maria again and Sara knitting a pair of halfmitts

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Teaser

This weekend I and my friend Lisa went to Örebro to visit a yarn exhibition. The reason for this is that I've decided to start a company on my own. I’m going to sell yarn here in Sweden and I’m trying to find nice yarn that is either ecological or fair trade. I will probably write more about this later.

Here are some pictures from the exhibition.


Swedish wool, Ullcentrum


Recykled PET bottles, Marks & Kattens


Wilfert's


Manos Silk Blend

Yoda

A friend of mine turned 30 this Saturday and his girlfriend had organized a Star Wars and Matrix party for him. The same morning I decided to crochet a Yoda necklace for him. I improvised it and it took a couple of hours to make. This is how it turned out.


Crochet Yoda for Kristoffer

Elf shoes

This is a pair of Elf Shoes that I made from some waste yarn for my son. He's now 18 months old and has found out that he can take his shoes on by himself as long as they are big enough (like mommy's and daddy's) or more like boots so I made these a little bit too big for him. They are made of wool and felted in the washing machine.


Felted Elf Shoes for my son

Knitting event at Grötö

Yesterday I and my friend Lisa (who also is the one that brought me into the world of Yarn a couple of years ago) went to visit a knitting event at an island called Grötö outside the coast of Gothenburg. This event was a smaller version of SiV which is arranged every year in March at Grötö.

Lisa was supposed to pick me up around two but about 15 minutes before that she called and told me that her car had broken down! You have to go by ferry to the island and the ferry only leaves every second hour. She lives further away from where we were going than I do but we decided that I should pick her up instead and we hoped to make it in time for the ferry we were planning to go with anyway. Luckily we made it just in time and arrived at the event around three.


Lisa at the event

It was a lot of people there already and I believe most of them were staying the night. Me and Lisa had to go back home in the evening though. I sat down next to Sandy and on my other side there was a nice man with the same name as my son, Wilhelm. He taught me how to crochet a net and another way of making Tunisian stitches than those I already knew. That’s one of the greatest things of meeting with fellow yarn lovers, you can learn from each other.


Wilhelm with his crochet net

I also met Slavi from Denmark who sells yarn on the internet. He had brought some yarn for sale with him to Grötö. I bought a couple of lovely skeins of Colinette JitterBug, the colorway Forest!We had a great afternoon and evening with people I had never met before, much laughter and inspiration for many new projects.


The lovely JitterBug I bought

I got home about half past eleven and was really tired then. I really hope that I will make it to the real SiV in March!


Me with hook and yarn crocheting a small bag

I brought my camera but had forgotten to put in the memory card so the photos of me and Wilhelm were taken with my iPhone.

Tunisian stitch felted bag

I just learned how to make the Tunisian stitch (in Swedish it's called krokning) and since I already had yarn enough to make a bag I improvised one. First Tunisian stitched the bag and saw it all together and then I tossed it into the washing machine (40˚C) along with a couple of towels and some soap instead of laundry detergents. This is a way of felting which I've used before when making tea cozies, slippers and a couple of other things. When I took it out I added buttons and filled the bag with stuff in plastic bags to get the shape I wanted. I think it turned out just the way I wanted it.


Bag with a touch of steam punk

Hexagon baby blanket

The first project I will show you here is a blanket I knitted for my friend Saras son Oscar. They live in London so I sent it there for him and as soon as he got it his mother sent me this lovely picture.


Happy little baby Oscar with his blanket

I also took a couple of photos before I sent the blanket.


Blocking


Finished

Welcome to my new blog

I’ve been blogging in Swedish for a couple of years and thought I’d try blogging in English. I’m starting this new blog for three reasons:

1. I want to have special blog to write about and show the things that I make with my hands.

2. I don’t write in English very often so I think this is good practice for me. So please feel free to comment when I repeatedly write something the wrong way or something doesn’t make sense because of the way I write.

3. I’m a Ravelry user and since most people at Ravelry don’t understand Swedish but do understand English it would be nice to have a blog connected to Ravelry that people there actually can read.

I hope to have time to write here often and share my projects and ideas with you out there but I will only write when I feel like it. I hope you will enjoy my blog!

By the way, my name on Ravelry is Tehus, so visit me there if you’re on Ravelry too!