Open House!

My webshop Garnasinne is now open! You can visit it here. It's only possible to order from Sweden though.

But if you live in Sweden, especially in or nearby Gothenburg, you might be interested in visiting the Open Event I'm organizing on the16:th of October. You are welcome from 1 to 4 pm, in Tingshuset, Göteborgsvägen 24, in Lerum. There will be lots of yarn, coffee and cupcakes, and the possibility to win great prizes in a lottery!

I hope to see you there!

Here's a link to the event on facebook, only in Swedish though.

Crocheting flowers making a Betsy

I've bought yarn from The Natural Dye Studio for my web shop so now I've started a crotchet project using their sock yarn called Nymph. I'm making Queenies Betsy Crochet Scarf (Ravelry link), the top picture shows the pattern and yarn. The pattern is easy to follow and it's the kind when you thin "only one more flower" all the time and then you suddenly realize that hours has passed. I love the yarn which is composed of British Blue Faced Leicester which is a soft wool, silk which makes it a bit shiny and cashmere.

I'm still here

I'm sorry that I haven't been writing here in a long time. I really have so much to write about, I just think that I will write about it "tomorrow".

Well, now I'm working hard to get my business going, I hope that I will be able to open my web shop next week. It's a lot more work than I had imagined, especially all the paperwork that needs to be done and posted back and forth a few times. Is it only here in Sweden we need to go through all this? Okay, maybe I've been doing it the hard way but when you haven't done it before, you do it the way that you can, and with a lot of help from family, friends and other people that just want to be nice! I've got a few new friends on the way so far, and I'm sure I'll get to know a lot of other nice persons as well.

So I've been knitting in the evenings as usual, the only difference is that I've used the same yarns that I will sell in my shop. Right now I'm blocking a cardigan that I've knitted in Manos del Uruguays Silk Blend. It's a lovely yarn made of merino and silk so it's both soft and a little shimmering which makes it look luxurious I think.

I've knitted some other things as well but this is the only picture I've got right now. I'll try to keep you updated. If you want to, you can follow me at Facebook, though it's mostly in Swedish you can still ask me questions in English and use Google translate for the things in Swedish, it usually translates texts in a way that they makes sense.

And done

A couple of not very good pictures since it's really hard to photograph yourself with a cellphone.

I've improvised this shrug and is quite proud of it. It turned out very close to how I pictured it in my mind. Not perfect but not far from.

Summertime, and the knitting is easy

Knitting weekend

This past weekend I went to an island called Grötö and Stickfest i Väst (Knitting party in the West). I’ve tried to write about it but it’s hard to do it short enough to fit in a blog post so I’ll try to summarize:

Yarn (obviously)! In the welcome basket, yarn lottery, competition prizes and on the market square

Heaven's hand by Hamilton Yarns

Bart & Francis yarns

Awesome people! Lots of them, I think more than 70 persons (mostly women though to be honest)

Knowledge! So many people that know so much and willingly share it with each other

Maria is teaching twined knitting

Food! There was breakfast, lunch and dinner served, which meant I didn’t have to plan or prepare any food for a whole weekend! And coffee and tea whenever you wanted.

Cottages! We slept in cottages, I shared one with two of my friends.

Our cottage

I won lots of prizes; my favorites are the Malabrigo Lace that I won in the yarn lottery and a knitting bag made by Stickfrossa that I won in the competition The Fastest Knitter in the West.

Malabrigo Lace Paris Night

My knitting bag from Stickfrossa

The Fastest Knitter in the West-competition was really something else. Almost everybody participated and got prizes too! With 8 mm wooden needles and wool yarn that obviously was made for smaller needles. Ten people at the time knitted as much as they could for five minutes while the others were cheering like crazy around them and challenging them to do stuff like standing up, changing places, drink some wine and drop a needle. The winner was crazy fast! Her needles were blurry while she knitted. If she hadn’t hold on tightly to her needles it would have gone away like an arrow and somebody might have gotten badly hurt!

For a while now I’ve wished to learn how to do needle binding. I was talking to Ingrid Brundin and just happened to mention that and she immediately said she could teach me the first steps! She taught me one way to start and three different stitches so now I guess I’m hooked to this new technique too! One cannot have too many projects right? So now I’m needle binding my first pair of mittens, just by improvising.

Now that’s all I will write for now. Hope to post here more often but I can’t promise!

The candy I brought home

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