Sunday, October 28, 2007

Sofie's scarf






Sofie loves all kinds of accessories, including scarfs. So she wanted med to make her one from some multicoloured yarn she had.




And as seen on the photo - she is happy with the result.


Some details:

Scarf - crotheting






For a long time now I have wanted to make myself a nice warm scarf for the winter. A collegue looked at the recipe and friday she showed me how to do it. Now its done. It was not difficult at all! And the project moved real fast forward (the weather has been bad this weekend...)

Slippers made of squares




Jeg fant en oppskrift på tovete strikkete firkant tøfler, og prøvde ut min egen versjon. Jeg hakket firkanter i Cortina med 18 masker i opplegget. Da de var ferdig monterte nble de litt større enn jeg hadde tenkt...ca 42. Min mor var på besøk, trengte nye tøfler - og da var den saken grei. I etter kant har jeg laget flere...men det har ikke vært helt enkelt å finne frem til "rett" størrelse til meg selv - til slutt fant jeg den. Men før det har jeg laget noen røde og svarte - ca 34? ett par trefargede som ble for små til Sofie - heldigvis kjenner vi folk med mindre føtter som kan se frem til varme tøfler til jul.


I had noticed a method to make slippers based on knitted squares. So I experienced making slippers from Squares made in basic Tunisian crotheting. Then felting them. One pair became to big - so my mother got them. The next to small. But now I seem to have gotten it worked out so I have made myself a nice pair of warm slippers, and in the process created a few slippers to give away.