Mormor sjal på 2,5 mm pinne...

...blir litt mindre og fastere (som forventet),
enn om en strikker det på 3,5 mm.

Det sier jo seg selv, men jeg ville gjerne teste det.

Strikket det i en annen farge denne gang,

men med det samme garnet, Ranco Multy fra Araucania,

et sokkegarn.

I hagen blomstrer det,

og på gjerdet henger disse blomstene ut over pottene,
og nedover sprinkle gjerdet.

 
Et fint lite gjemmested for den haleløse firfislen vår.

Above is the last Mormor Shawl,
knitted  with 2.5 mm needles.
It made as expected, a little smaller.

The rest of the pictures are showing off
some of my flowers on the fence,
and one of the Anoles living there...

This project is resting

...as I ran out of yarn.

I am however expecting a few more skeins

any day now..

The pattern is called Nordland,

and I found it in the book

Norsk Strikk from Orion.

 (Sorry, couldnt find any distributors)

Here is a picture from the book

showing how it will look when finished.

Here is another link for those of you

who are on Ravelry

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/husfliden-nr-205

(Thank you to Sylvia who gave me the book!)

Sønnen ønsket en ny varm genser,

og valget falt på denne Norlandsgenseren.

A walk in the evening..

Even though we live in a quite populated area,

we do have these tracks along the "overflow channels".

A few miles of them a few minutes from our house.

Houston floods when it rains

so we have channels and "dry lakes" where the water can go.

There are snakes and turtles down by the water,

 and some fire-ant mounds along the path.
These days the spring flowers are blooming.

I believe these are called Crimsom Clovers.
They have a very pretty dark red color,
and they are a little different from the Red Clovers
that I am used to from Norway.

En liten ettermiddagstur langs kanalene,
ikke langt fra huset vårt.
Akkurat nå er temperaturen så herlig,
senere blir her dessverre for varmt til å spasere.
Hunden vår, Eini,
liker også å bli med

Lizards

  On my way to the grocery store today 

I realized that one of my garden lizards 

was hanging on to the wind shield for bare life.. 

Poor thing! 

His four legs stretched out, 

stomach pressed to the window. 

I saw horror and panic in his little face! 

(This is not the Explorer, however this one lost its tale the other day...)

I guess he must have been hunting flies on my car this morning. 

I had gotten to far to be able to return home with "him" 

(have to admit I thought about it, I love our lizards..!), 

so I drove into a side street with several trees, 

worried that he otherwise would end up 

at the parking lot of the super market, 

not a good place to be if you are a lizard! 

However, end of story, 

he now lives in a tree 5 minutes from here, 

but I wonder how to inform the rest of his family....

 

 

Pulsvotten Rogaland

Jeg har valgt å legge dette mønsteret ut for salg.

Det var innsendt til en konkurranse 

som Husfliden hadde i vinter,

i kategorien "Stashåndplagg".

Vinneren måtte gi opp rettigheten til mønsteret sitt,

men siden mitt forslag IKKE vant,
så er rettigheten derfor forsatt min egen.

Vinnervotten er her,
en leser gjorde meg oppmerksom på denne linken,
takk skal du ha Liv.

Mønsteret var inspirert av Rogalands bunaden,

(derfor navnet)

og jeg prøvde å bruke tilnærmede farger 

brukt i bunad-broderiene,

og et velkjendt norsk garn

(at det kunne bestilles på nettet var veldig greit).

These Half Mittens were entered 

in a Norwegian “contest” last winter. 

Suggested to be used together with 

one of Norway’s many “Traditional outfits”, called Bunad.
However there was only one winner, 

and these mittens were not it. 

So there is the story….

The pattern is inspired 

by the embroidery used in the Rogalandsbunad, 

but it is not at all accurate. 

Some might not even recognize the elements, 

but the colors are somewhat similar.

Påskeaften

med 30 grader i skyggen...

Kan vel ikke klage på det.

Vi har hatt en kaldt vinter her i Texas også,

men nå føles det som om de varme dagene 

er i anmarsj.

Dette er et utvalg av det som vokser i hagen akkurat nå,

men de overlever nok neppe 

sommertemperaturene.

Hawairosene har ikke kommet skikkelig igang enda,

håper bare at de har overlevd 

frostnettene vi hadde tidligere i vinter.

Selv om jeg pakket de fleste plantene inn 

med tepper og gamle laken,

klarte frosten likevel å gjøre en del skade.

Bladene på palmetrærne ble brune

og har derfor blitt klippet ned.

Håper de tegn på nye blader om ikke så alt for lenge,
vi kan alltids trenge skyggen de gir oss.

Ha en forsatt fin Påske...!

New pattern

 

This pattern is made in two choices of background colors,

black or white.

I am working on the English part of this pattern,

and it will be available as soon as possible

after Easter.

It was entered to a contest in Norway this last winter,

but didn't win.

Yarn used is Rauma 3 thread strikkegarn  Finullgarn.
A very nice Norwegian wool yarn

with lots of great color choices.