Gothenburg

Last wednesday I went off to Gothenburg to stay with Elin till Sunday.
My youngest daughter hada Basketbal tournement there so I took the time to combine those two.
The car was filled with goodies and with goodies I mean wool and that kind of thing.
Elin asked me to take the carder with me and I took with me Värmlands wool and a lot of other things.
It was like an invasion when I came to Elin:

I had my own corner :)
The next day I went to see my youngest play Basketbal and I am very proud to say that I went with the tram into town and to the hall she was playing. I am so used to use my car.
I even managed to find my way back again!

We (Elin and I) spend the afternoon with sorting wool and it was a lot !!!

You will understand that this is woolheaven for us!!

Some of the wool was in great condition and a lot wasn´t.

We do not agree on all of the wool though so Elin has to proof something!!
I´ll hope see managed because then I will save also a bit more wool than I used too.

We will see.

In the evenings I made a new friend: Frasse !

Here he is lying on my lap while I was spinning.
He sure loves the rhythm of the spinningwheel and my lap.

So relaxed and cosey.

The days went by so fast and now I am home again.

Elin offered to wash my Värmlandwool so that was staying behind, together with my Ashford Joy that she wants to test. So I am forced to spinn on my Majacraft Little Gem.

My värmland wool

Will be very nice to see here again. 

Love that girl !!

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Colour Queens

Last thursday it was finally time to go to Gothenburg.
My first visit was to go to my dear friend Elin.
I arrived at 05.00 pm or so and had a wonderfull time at the balcony in the sun with a drink.
We made a dutch diner which I succeeded with I guess.
Then we went trough our fibers of course !! Up to the loft to find more fiber.
Girl, how much can you store !! :)
I got some very nice yarn from Elin and three bags of coloured finnull wool.

The next day Elin had to got to work so I followed with her.
I had a great time! To see Gothenburg from a boat is something different!

After that I had some errands to do and went off to a very small, nice, knittingshop.
Thanks to my GPS I managed to find everything.
And then off to Lena. The Colour Queens weekend can begin!!!

I arrived att Lena´s around 13.00 o´clock. Marie was allready there and made a wonderfull lunch.
The rest of the afternoon we spend with spinning at the veranda because it was beautifull weather.
We also went to Ikea to buy some jars and you always come home with more!!
After diner I visited Mia because she has some beautifull cottonyarn she dyes herself and I am going to make a african flowerbag.

Mia´s yarn

The beginning of my bag!

Saturdaymorning Dineke and Else arrived just in time for breakfast!

We unpacked the car and then it was time for lunch again and again Marie fixed it again.

Els with a hat to protect her against the sun.

Lost something Lena?

And then it was just waiting for the girls to show up.

It was beautiful weather and only sunday was a bit chilly.

Other pictures will follow when I have collected them all together.

And this is what I have done:

All of it !!

Blue Faced Leicester dyed with all the leftover from the course with Landscape Dyes

Humbug 

Close up of the Humbug

Eva´s alpacka dyed with Landscape Dyes Sarsparilla and Sugar Cane

Really love those colours

Silk

The same silk as above

On saturday night I got some spinninglessons from Mia about Thick and Thin spinning.
Not a bad result for the first time I suppose. I am going to twine it with silk dyed with Sarsparilla.

I had a lot of Alpacka lying around and I was able to make rovings on Lena´s fantastic electric Cardmachine

A close up of the Alpacka 

I am very pleased with the result and I am sure the rest was pleased as well. 

I am looking forward to our next meeting!!! 

And in the meantime: Go Colour Queens !!

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