Knitting

My goodness, Gudrun, you have had a busy time knitting! ;-)

Many thanks, Amelia! I did a lot of knitting and preferred patterns because they were less boring and you could see your progress,-) This was done with one of the Dale patterns where they tell you exactly how many stitches and rows....

Wow, das ist ja eine Arbeit! Bravo, Gudrun!

Danke, Dany! Ist schon ewig her....

Ich auch hab nichts mehr gemacht seit vielen Jahren. Das war vor Internet...

Bei mir wollen die Finger nicht mehr so, Arthrose im Daumen....

A lot of work involved! And a classic example of a symmetric pattern

Thanks, Diederik! The work was fun:-)

Wow! Beautiful jumper and beautiful photo.

Danke, Eva! Das Atrickmuster und die Wolle hatte ich in Oslo gekauft.

Wow, Gudrun, you are a very talented knitter and a very beautiful knitting pattern you created!

Thanks a lot, Val! I used to knit a lot, not any longer though. I bought the pattern and wool on a visit to Oslo.

Fantastic work. A really beautiful pattern

Thank you, Harriet! The pattern was created by Dale for the Norwegian skiers, I don't remember whether it was world cup or Olympics...

Ja klasse Gudrun!!!
Da kann ich mit meinen Socken einpacken ;)
Schönes Motiv...sauber gestrickt...Hut ab!

Vielen Dank, Tanja! Das war schon ewig her.... Heutzutage kannst die ganz warmen Sachen ja kaum noch anziehen! Mir war's beim Stricken immer zu langweilig, nur einfarbig glatt rechts;-)

Dieses Strickmuster erinnert mich irgendwie an den Rentierpullover bei Bridget Jones ...

Haha, ja! Merci vielmals, Heidi!

Sehr hübsch ! Ich mag Rentiere !

Vielen Dank, Ulrich! Das Stricken hat mir damals Spass gemacht.

Oh my goodness. You are SO talented! This is beautiful and a great choice for the challenge!

Thank you, Karen! That was long ago, knitting was quite the rage then:-)

It was here too. I used to knit all the time. Nothing quite this intricate with all the different colors, though. That must be hard to do. I could never figure out what to do with all the ends. :-O

The beauty with Norwegian style knitting on a round needle is that you don't have many ends and not many seams either: They knit a big tube from bottom to top, make machine seams on both sides of the arm holes, cut open and sew the arms in. The arms are also knitted round without seams:-) It works a treat!

I have done a little bit of knitting with circular needles. That sounds fantastic and would get rid of a lot of sewing of seams too. Danke, Gudrun.

Knitting continental style makes it much easier btw (plenty of online tutorials for that).

Wow! Your stitches are so even. This is not an easy pattern.

Thanks a lot, Esther! It's all done on one long round neddle which makes it much easier.

Stricken war mir schon immer ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln und es ist mir ein Rätsel wie man so ein Muster hinbringen kann. In diesem Fall eine noch größere Kunst als das schöne Bild.

Schönen Dank, Leo! Ich gestehe, dass ich Handarbeit gehasst habe. Aber auf einmal fingen alle an zu stricken, vor allem während der Mathestunden;-) Da habe ich mir's mehr oder weniger selbst beigebracht. Während des Studiums hat mich dann eine norwegische Kommilitonin vollends angesteckt. Norwegerinnen stricken überall und in allen Lebenslagen;-)

O...M...G! You knitted that? It's perfect, I am very impressed by your skill, Gudrun, and this is indeed a great "pattern."

Many thanks, Diane! Actually it's not that difficult if you knit a) continental style, b) on a round needle c) knit a tube and cut afterwards, Norwegian style. I could never understand the anglo-saxon style of knitting, it looks awfully cumbersome;-)

The stags are a nice pattern! Well done!