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nordland rundt
I’m recently back from a whirlwind trip around Nordland, the Norwegian fylke (county) just to the south of Troms, the county where I live. We’ve had some dear friends visiting from the states, and it seemed like a great opportunity to get ourselves off the beaten track and show our friends a nice cross-section of northern Norway. We were Continue reading
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reading, thinking: seawomen of iceland
The Sun Voyager, photographed in 2012 in Reykjavík Jess’s Swatch of the Month post over on the Fringe blog today got me thinking about a book I read a few months ago. Her swatch this month is in Icelandic wool, the Lopi we all know and love, and her post includes a really fantastic short history of Iceland. Continue reading
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project updates
Since the whole idea of my queue check of sorts from a few weeks back was to hold myself accountable to my plan, I figured I’d post a follow up! I’ll start with the good news: I finished the Hugin and Munin mittens! As I mentioned in the earlier post, these only needed thumbs, so once I had time to sit Continue reading
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first days of september
Yesterday evening the weather was good and I got to take a nice long walk around Tromsøya (I hope you all enjoy these posts about my walks around Tromsø, because they’re often the highlights of my weeks). I know many of you are trying your best to hang on to what’s left of summer, but here Continue reading
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svana
Happy September! I love the first of September for many reasons (the feeling that summer is drawing to an end, heading back to school, the Hogwarts Express…) so I’m extremely pleased that today is the day that the first of Quince & Co.’s fall collections is being released. This also means that I have another new pattern Continue reading
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rosenhoff mittens
I decided to write about Telespinn last week because I used one of their yarns for a very special pattern: meet the Rosenhoff mittens (or Rosenhoff Votter), my contribution to the magazine for this year’s Oslo Strikkefestival. The festival is only in its second year this year, but it sounds like last year was a flying success and I Continue reading
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norwegian wool: telespinn
I still have some larger yarn companies to cover in this series on Norwegian wool, but I’m jumping to a smaller company this week to tell you about one of my favorite Norwegian yarn companies: Telespinn (click “in English” at the top of their homepage if you don’t speak Norwegian). I first encountered their yarn two years ago when I Continue reading
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project planning
I’m a big fan of Karen Templer’s Queue Check posts over at Fringe, and if I’m honest it’s prompted me to assess the state of my own knitting queue with an eye towards prioritization and realistic expectations. (That sentence may be one of the least romantic things I’ve ever written about knitting on this blog, but Continue reading
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a year in tromsø
The anniversary marking my first year in Tromsø has come and gone – I arrived on August 2nd, 2015, and this year on that date I found myself back at the airport as I embarked on a quick trip to Canada. The past few weeks have been a bit crazy and intense but I’m back in Continue reading
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technicolor sun
I hope you’re ready for a big photo post. It’s just past midnight as I’m writing this post from my couch, looking out the window at the blue sky outside. The midnight sun continues to be disorienting; my husband pointed out that the lack of night seemed to be affecting him creatively and he’s right Continue reading
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