Chain blog post - I DARE you!

Here’s a try at a chain blog post. It is modelled on those terrible chain letters we used to get, later we got chain emails. It contains the concept of a new person adding something to a list, and a (non-serious I should stress) threat for those who choose to ignore the chain and thereby break it! So here it goes:


This is a knitting chain blog post. What you should do if you read this is the following:
1. Copy this text including the questions below in a post on your own blog, and add one question by yourself. If the total number of questions on the list exceeds 10, get rid of the top question on the list. Include a link to your blog to your own thought uop question. Do not include other peoples’ answers to the questions.
2. The question you think up should be controversial (it’s up to you to decide what that is), but adhere to netiquette, so nothing offensive, please!
3. Include the answer to all the questions incl. your own in a PS to your posting text.

Otherwise, no rules. You can tag specific bloggers to answer the questions but knitters can also just take the up the challenge when they feel challenged enough by reading the chain blog post. You can change the picture if find a better one, if you use the original, keep the reference to their website. You can add comments to the questions and there’s no limit to the length of your answers, nor of the amount of blogreaders you tag. If you do take up the challenge you could leave a comment on the blog where you saw it.

Needless to say, this chain has started in 1976 in a small rural village in the Andes mountains. Do not break the chain! Knitters who read this and do not take the challenge of answering will turn into something like this:



Picture courtesy of hassle free cilip art


Question: Have you ever considered to knit while sitting on the toilet (so-called ‘knitting in private’?
(question by tingletangle)





PS my answer: Yes I have considered this seriously while recovering from food poisoning. The amount of wasted time on the toilet was overwhelming. The question about this question may be whether it is really controversial: Loads of people read while sitting on the toilet (not me, of course).


Okay readers of this blog (Froukje, Saartje, Berthi, Pirkko - I know you're among them)! I dare you!

earrings...øreringe...oorbellen

In my teenage years I used to make loads of earrings. Pretty basic designs, with beads on a piece of wire, or sometimes a couple of pieces of wire connected in a simple way. I still have beads, I bought som wire, because I saw, on craftster, how some people make wirewrapped beads. This is a first attempt. I think with practice I can make them more professional looking.
See eni oken's website for instructions for this wrap.

I'm knitting too! Fingerless mits from the One Skein book! Foto's to appear soon (it seems to work again!).

Da jeg var teenager lavede jeg masser af øreringe. Meget enkle, med bare nogle perler på tråd, eller flere tråde sat sammen. Jeg har stadigvæk en del perler, og jeg købte noget sølvtråd for jeg så på craftster hvordan folk laver 'wirewrapped beads'. Dette er et første forsøg. Jeg tror jeg kan få dem til at se mere professionel ud med lidt mere øvelse!
Se eni oken's website for instruktioner for denne wrap.

Jeg strikker også! Fingerløse vanter fra One Skein. Billeder kommer snart (det synes at fungere igen).

In mijn teenagejaren heb ik heel wat oorbellen gemaakt. Simpele, met kralen op een stuk zilverdraad, of soms meerdere zilverdraadjes samen. Ik heb nog steeds kralen, en ik heb nieuw zilverdraad gekocht want op craftster zag ik hoe mensen 'wirewrapped beads' maken. Dit is mijn eerste probeersel, en ik denk dat ik het na wat oefenen beter zal kunnen.

Kijk op eni oken's website voor de instrukties van deze wrap.

Ik brei ook nog! Vingerloze wanten uit One Skein. Binnenkort foto's (het schijnt weer te werken!).

trouble uploading pictures...

I desperately want to report on the felted bag I made, but I have problems with blogger - the browser breaks down when I want to upload pictures. Anyone else have this?

If you're curious about the bag, see my post on
craftster

Jeg vil frygtelig gerne vise jer den taske jeg har lavet, men jeg har problemer med blogger - så snart jeg vil uploade billeder bryder browseren ned. Har andre dette problem også?

Hvis I er nysgerrig efter min taske, så se min post på craftster

Ik zou graag mijn vilten tas laten zien die ik gemaakt heb, maar ik heb problemen met blogger. Elke keer als ik foto's wil uploaden crasht de browser (Hallooo hoezo leenwoorden uit het engels???) Hebben jullie dat ook?

Als je nieuwsgierig geworden bent kun je mijn tas zien op craftster

mags - tijdschriften - tidskrifter

Other things happened in the summer vacation: I gathered needlecraft magazins in the countries I visited (couldn't find Belgian ones, though (?)). From left to right: Handwerken zonder grenzen (Dutch, 'needle craft without borders' - for the serious crafter interested in the story behind the craft, a few very nice tutorials), Joli (Dutch, trendy and quick-n-easy projects in various kinds of techniques), marie-claire idees (French, very inspiring, something for everybody - experienced, non-experienced), Idees Magazine (French, much like Marie-claire idees, but no knitting/crochet/clothing projects), Libelle borduren (Dutch, special issue, only embroidery) and Idees-broderie et couture (French, from the same house as Idees Magazine, but now only with knitting/crochet and clothing). I like them all, but the french ones are my favourites - even though I will have trouble following the directions!

I ferien samlede jeg også disse håndarbejde-tidskrifter sammen (ku ikke finde belgiske...(?)). Fra venstre til højre: Handwerken zonder grenzen (hollandsk, 'håndarbejde uden grænser' - for den seriøse håndarbejder med interesse i historien bag håndarbejdet, med nogle meget fine opskrifter), Joli (hollandsk, trendy og hurtiglavede projekter i forskellige teknikker ), marie-claire idees (fransk, meget inspirerende, noget for enhver - erfaring eller ej), Idees Magazine (fransk, som Marie-claire idees, men ingen strikke-hækle eller tøjprojekter), Libelle borduren (hollandsk - kun om broderi) og Idees-broderie et couture (fransk fra samme udgiver som Idees Magazine, men kun strikke- hækle og tøjprojekter). Jeg kan lide dem alle, men mest af alt de franske, selvom anvisningerne nok vil volde problemer!

In de vakantie heb ik ook deze tijdschriften verzameld (kon geen belgische vinden (?)). Van links naar rechts: Handwerken zonder grenzen (NL, voor de serieuze handwerker met interesse in het verhaal achter het handwerk, een aantal mooie patronen), Joli (NL, trendy & snel-klaar in meerdere technieken), marie-claire idees (frans, heel inspirerend, voor de ervaren en beginnende handwerker), Idees Magazine (frans, als Marie-claire idees, maar geen brei- haak- en kleding), Libelle borduren (NL, alleen borduren) en Idees-broderie et couture (frans, van dezelfde uitgever als Idees Magazine, maar alleen brei- haak- en kleding). Ik vind ze allemaal leuk, maar mijn favorieten zijn de franse tijdschriften al zal het niet makkelijk zijn de aanwijzingen te volgen!

reviews

Vanwege tijdgebrek vandaag alleen in het engels.
På grund af tidsnød kun på engelsk i dag



These two books were also waiting for me at home after my vacation: Knitting rules from 'the yarn harlot' Stephanie McPhee and 'One skein' from Leigh Radford.

The first book I read during the first 24 hours I was at home. In that regard, the amount of money spent in relation to the amount of pleasurable time wasn't that favourable (the author offers a calculation for how much pleasure knitting gives in terms of money that makes it a logical pasttime in relation to going to the movies etc.). However, this is a book to return to. There's something for each knitter in it, and also for experienced knitters it is a good book. The reason is that there is some interesting pondering on what makes knitting so pleasurable, how to deal with non-knitters amazement of your yarn stash, knitting in public, some very nice tips and also basic info (which experienced knitters may choose not to read, e.g. the importance of swatching, and how to make a sock). For me, being a kind-of-experienced knitter there was enough new in this book to appreciate it. But most of all, the yarn harlot is a very good writer. Her books reads easily, and I like her kind of humour. Rating 7 skeins (out of 10)





If you're my type of knitter (not to much time, kids, not wanting to spend millions on large amounts of luxurious yarn, having a reasonable shash of all types of yarns, eager to make smaller projects and giving them a personal twist) this book is a gem.
The whole idea of making a project from a single skein of yarn appeals to me tremendously. Leigh Radford presents some contemporary designs of clothing and accessories many of which I could imagine myself making for myself or others. A fair amount of the projects are things not to difficult to dream up and work out yourself (like the legwarmers - a tube with a lace etching - duh) but it sometimes is nice to have them worked out by somebody else and presented in a yummy book with nice photography. And let's face it, my favorite kind of knitting book is one with designs and photographs that make me want to make the things in the book. If you liked 'Last minute knitted gifts' by Joell Hoverson, you'll like this one too.
Rating: 8 skeins out of 10.

yummmmm....

After a nice vacation we came home and there it was - a package fromLa vache qui tricote (Pirkko). The deal was made before we went away - we agreed on me sending her the amigurimi I made plus some local candy, and she would send a surprise craft item plus local candy to me. This is what she sent, and I am soooo happy about it. Think of getting a skein of this nice homespun! The candy is licorice and chocolates with cloudberry which I haven't tasted yet but I look forward to it!
Thanx so much Pirkko! This was a very succesful trade and I'm definitely going to do it again. See (in the future, there's nothing there now) on my shadow trading blog (link in the sidebar).


Efter en fin ferie kom vi hjem og der lå pakken fra La vache qui tricote (Pirkko). Vi havde aftalt inden jeg drog på ferie at jeg ville sende hende min amigurumi og noget lokalt slik og hun vil sende mig en hjemmelavet overraskelse og lokalt slik til mig. Dette var hvad hun sendte mig og jeg er så glad for det. Tænk at få en hank med hjemmespundet garn! Slikket er lakrids og multebær-chokolader, som jeg ikke har smagt på endnu men jeg glæder mig. Tak Pirkko! Dette var en meget succesfuld bytning og jeg vil absolut gøre det igen. Se (i fremtiden, nu ligger der ikke noget der) på min skyggeblog (link i sidebar).

Na een lekkere vakantie kwamen we thuis en daar lag het pakje van La vache qui tricote (Pirkko). We hadden voor mijn vakantie de afspraak gemaakt dat ik haar mijn amigurumi en lokaal geproduceerd snoep zou opsturen en zij mij een zelfgemaakte verrassing enook snoep zou opsturen. Dit was wat ze stuurde en ik ben er zo blij mee! Stel je voor zo'n bol met zelfgesponnen garen te krijgen! Het snoep is drop en chokolade met een vulling van cloudberry (een soort gele framboos), ik heb het nog niet geproefd maar heb er zin in! Dankjewel Pirkko! Het was een hele succesvolle ruil en ik ga dat absoluut weer doen. Kijk (in de toekomst, nu ligt er niets) maar op mijn schaduwblog (link in the sidebar).



If you look at Pirkko's blog, you can see her dog wanting the amigurumi I send her. Here you can see my daughter wanting the candy she send me...


På Pirkkos blog kan man se hendes hund som er efter min amigurumi. Her kan du se min datter som er efter hendes slik...

Op Pirkko's blog kun je haar hond zien die mijn amigurumi wil. Hier zie je mijn dochter die haar snoep wil...