Mystery revealed - welcome April

Last clue for the mystery KAL was up some days ago, and finished objects are popping up in the FO thread on Ravelry. Liv has blogged about her beautiful blue shawl, and "Lysstreif" has had fun with her green, stripy yarn. It's so fun to see the different colours and yarns - and it looks like people have enjoyed the KAL. I definitely have. I even finished my shawl!

My orange Wollmeise March shawl and my "Little red shawl in the forest", super soft in a gorgeous red. 

The pattern is now available as an ordinary pattern. 

Texture too!

I do a lot more stranded colourwork than textured knitting.

But for the mystery shawl it's all about texture. Today's clue encourages participants to come up with their own ideas.

In Clue #7 I did a mistake - I was supposed to do rows of eyelets, with 3 rows of knit in between, as in the top photo. Instead I workede eylets on every right side row. In this pattern it doesn't matter at all. Someone mentioned they liked the wrong side of the eyelet pattern better - I'm inclined to agree. Anyway - texture is a lot of fun too!

Risky business

Well, I did warn people that a mystery knitalong, where the pattern was not tested, nor written, was risky. And in clue 4 we did get some weird shapes. Luckily, someone noted it quickly and messaged me, and I was able to fix the error before everybody got weird looking shawls. And noone is complaining, just having fun, it seems. 

It was these elongated stitches (and my bad explanation) that complicated thins yesterday. But my Wollmeise colourway is lovely, isn't it?

And if you're going to Edinburgh, for EYF17 - say hello to Edinburgh for me, and have a lot of fun!

Mystery in March

From now on, you will find some posts in English and some in Norwegian - and my old blog in English will not be updated.

The first post in English is a mysterious one:
At Oslo Strikkefestival, I fell in love with a beautiful skein of red, fingering yarn from a French dyer - Les laines de l'écureuil, or Squirrel's yarn. I bought it and cast on immediately - for a scarf, or shawlette, that I made up as I went. I designed it so that could use every inch of the beautiful yarn. And since I was quite happy with process, and the result, I have decided to have some more fun with it:

I offer it as a free pattern in March - using the code MysteryinMarch - you get it free on Ravelry. It will be updated every now and then thoughout Marrc 2017.

Warning!
You enter this mystery at your own risk!
The pattern has not been test knitted, in fact, it is, at this moment, not even written....

But the design is quite simple, so I hope and believe this will work out by the end of March.
It's actually my 100th pattern on Ravelry - all the more reason to celebrate with a mystery.

So if you have a beautiful skein of fingering yarn, appr. 400 m, feel free to join.
Gauge and yardage is not crucial, you just cast off when you run out of yarn. My gauge is 20 sts in garter stitch in 10 cm, I used needles 2.5 mm, you might want to choose a larger needle, as knit quite loosely in garter stitch (ok, so there I revealed that there is some garter stitch involved in this pattern... but at this moment, I say no more).

Restefest i januar!

Er du med på Pinneguris restefest 2016? Det er jeg. Og festen har begynt ganske bra, syns jeg!

Lua Merrygoatround i "rundstrikkintarsia" .

Lua Merrygoatround i vanlig mønsterstrikk. 

Jeg fikk to plantafarga hesper av en strikkevenninne, og så hadde jeg noen plantefarga rester som jeg brukte til stripene, også en gave. Veldig fornøyd med dette skjerfet/halsen. 

Mysterievotten Mosaikk - versjon kjapp og tjukk.

Teststrikk av mysterievotten fra i fjor høst, i resteegarn fra Sjølingstadkofta, vist fram nå i januar. 

Første sekskant i langtidsresteprosjektet teppet Persiske drømmer.