Tuesday, March 2, 2010

lost & knitting

The last couple of weeks I've been lost. Lost in parallel worlds. Absorbed in dangerous adventures, enthralled in magical forests and buried in good smelling sheets of paper.
Yes, I've been reading. Really lost-for-the-world reading. Cooking & reading. Brushing teeth & reading. Wishing knitting & reading (and perhaps driving & reading) was possible!

Well, my bad conscience brought me back to this world. And great gifts from my mom.

She spun some lovely merino ...

... and asked me to knit something for little S from it.

But the knitting needles was just for me. Handmade knitting needles! Made from the brown core of a branch of a laburnum tree (guldregn). If you're the lucky owner of such a tree (or know somebody that are) now is the time to cut a branch or two, before spring makes the the sap rise.
Just carve off the bark and outer wood till you reach the darker wood (the outer wood is yellow, so you won't be in doubt). Make points and some sort of rounded ends. Smooth and polish with sandpaper.


My mom calls them dogma knitting needles. Says they're meant for knitting with unwashed, unspun wool! Well, I don't know about that, but I sure love these knitting needles!

I would also love some suggestions considering the yarn and what to knit. I'd love to make a vest for S, but I need some inspiration and/or a great knitting pattern for handmade yarn.

8 comments:

  1. Hvor er det et fantastik skriv fra dig. Jeg bliver altid så inspireret, når jeg læser med hos dig.

    Tænkte om du kender Elisabeth Zimmermann lille trøje kaldet Tomten. Se eventuelt tidligere indlæg hos Soulemama. Hun har strikket en uden hætte.

    Opskriften fås i bogen: Knitting without tears, men kan formentlig også købes som enkeltopskrift.

    I bogen taler hun iøvrigt og det håndspundne ulds velsignelser (smil...).

    Knus ;-)

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  2. Det er dog noget helt fantastisk uld - åh, jeg længes efter at spinde igen! Og farven, den smukkeste grønne tine jeg længe har set......

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  3. jeannette Mariae: Tak skal du ha'! Jeg vil prøve at finde den trøje :)

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  4. Jeg har en supernem opskrift fra Askeladen (eller Nøstebarn..), den har du måske selv? Vest uden ermer i perlestrikning, med en trense og knap i siden. Heidrun bruger sin hele tiden, under og over andet tøj. Jeg strikket en i krapfarvet garn.
    Men ærlig talt, hvad leser du dog??

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  5. Å hvor det lyder dejligt. Jeg elsker når jeg bliver slugt af en bog og hele verden omkring mig flyder ud i let irelevante tåger...

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  6. Therese: SKØN litteratur, masser af bøger! :)
    Har prøvet at finde mønsteret du taler om, tror godt jeg ved hvilken undertrøje du mener, men er mønstret ikke fra den bog der hedder noget i retningen af strik med lanolingarn?

    Marina: ja, det er herligt ikke, jeg føler mig nogen gange lidt junkieagig mht bøger ;)

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  7. Det ved jeg ikke, jeg har den kun på et stykke papir fra Nøstebarn.

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  8. I love the handcarved knitting needles. Such a graceful shape and beautiful.

    You have a wonderful blog. I've gotten a little lost in it tonight. (which is a happy thing for me)

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