Dejlige Danmark // Wonderful Denmark

We went last week on a trip "home" to Denmark, where we lived for 5 years. We took our girls with us, it was they´re first trip to denmark, and they both enjoyed it. 

During our trip I knitted this neck-warmer

The embelishment is supposed to be a mouse, per request by the owner of this neck-warmer, who wanted her letter and a mouse. I was inspired by Merete to try to embellish with this chain stitch. 

My 3 year old tasted "flødebolle" for the first time, and enjoyed it 

                                           She loved Odense zoo, and she and her "best friend in the whole world"  her own phrase , got to enjoy it together.

 I only got the chance to visit one yarn store, I visited tante grøn in Odense, and bought Isaager yarn and the booklet  knit for your kid. I was with a screaming 8 month old with me, so really didn't get a chance to look around.  I´m a bit regretting the color choice, think the colors are to different, but there wasn´t much of a choice in colors, and I really wanted the pale pink in the alpakka. 

My 8 month old, hated any store she entered, but loved being out and about and watching people. And I certainly can't resist those eyes so I made a quick decision and got out of the store as fast as I could. 

Pattern : is from the book strikk til nøstebarn

Yarn: Dale baby wool, held double

notes: cast on fewer stitches (68), embellished with chainstitch 

needles: 3.5mm

made for: my 3 year old

Cloth-diaper cover

The summer is finally here, so I was able to sit outside and knit today, I made these quick diaper cover. I didn´t have the right yarn at hand, so I used Icelandic unspun wool and sandnes alpakka .  The diaper cover (or bullet proof vest) is way to thick I think, I have no idea as I don´t use cloth diapers how they are supposed to be, any suggestions/tips are welcome.

Tomorrow I hope to spend some time in this chair knitting, it needs some tender love and care but I´m not going to do anything about it until dh goes on summer holiday, my few moments "alone" will be spent  bathing in the sun.

Pattern:  Strik til nøstebarn
Yarn:  sandnes alpakka and unspun icelandic wool
needles: 4.5 mm

Mittens

I have a lot of Einband and Plötulopi, since I won´t be finishing a planned project.  Made mittens from the book "strik til nøstebarn".  

They ended up way to thick, I went on the istex website to check the ply, and there was no mention of it,  I assumed it would be 1ply. I therefore knitted with 4 strands of Einband, a mistake on my behalf. Realised later that on ravelry Einband is categorised as 2 ply.  The mittens are therefore a bit thick, and stiff... hope that they will soften up a bit with wear. Not sure if they will be used a lot.  On the bright side my 2 year old likes the colors very much.

I have not been knitting anything in the last 2 weeks... just sleeping and sleeping... very pregnant and hoping not to give birth on the 24th of desember, any other day soon would be fine.

more baby stuff

I finished the white devil-hat a while ago, but the red one I knitted yesterday evening. We had a get-together at work, where we knitted and crocheted and etc. 

Devil-hat:

Pattern- http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/norwegian-sweet-baby-cap---djevellue

size: newborn size, modifications found here

yarn- drops baby alpaca silk

needles- 2 mm

Red hat:

Pattern - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/1936-lettstrikka-babylue

size: 0-3months

yarn- Tynn alpakka

needles- 2.5mm