Dumb dumb dumber

Last Wednesday it was BIM-day.
BIM is a friend of mine and it is her nickname and every Wednesday I drop by because she is recovering from an operation that took a long time to take place (since the summer) and have visited her (almost) every wednesday since summer.
We always have fun and lately I always forget something at her place.
It is not a drama just inconvenient.

Like last wednesday.
In my podcast last week I talked about having way to many WIP's and UFO's, so the plan is to finish every week and this week it should be my Tunesian crochet cardigan.

I brought it with me to BIM to show her the cardigan. (The cardigan just needed to be sewn and I broke all my needles on the sewing machine.)
To make a very long story short I was able to sew at her place and would take it back home to make the button band.
I had with me another project as well, this one so I had other things to do during my stay.
When it was time for me to go home, I packed my things, took the dog with me (she always comes with me) and left.

When I got home I had a wonderful idea: to clip up my cardigan and lock it with my locking machine.
So the whole shabam was on the table and I couldn't find my cardigan!!!
A sms came through with a picture of my cardigan at my friends place.
And that is not all!

The next day on Facebook.
We have a online knitting café and on Thursday we had a theme called weaving in the ends and I had a lot weaving to do on the cardigan so I was so happy about untill I realised (it sometimes takes a while) that my cardigan was at BIM's.
Big bummer.
So I knitted on my tunic instead and adjusted my new adition to the spinning wheel family and spun and watched podcasts as well.

It has not been my week I suppose.

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Spinning weekend

And again it is Friday. What happened with the rest of the week? Last weekend I had Spinning classes and I had three students. I had a great day and so did they.
My three students all had a different goal. One had already participated in a Drop Spindle class a couple of months ago and another one wanted to learn how to spin on a Turkish spindle and the third one wanted to learn it all! As said, I had a great time.

We started of with a Handspinner and soon everyone had the hang of it and in the mean time I tried out the Turkish Spindle. What a pleasure and so convenient with Andean Plying.

Time flew by and in the end one was spinning on her own Turkish Spindle and the other two were spinning on a Spinning Wheel.
One on my Ashford Joy and another one on a Ashford Traveller

All very happy to have accomplished something.
I am already working on another class.

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Spinning event

Last weekend I had my spinning weekend.
We had a great time with a lot of laughter.
Unfortunately my soup was not eatable and had to come up with something else.
The first to arrive was Rose-Marie and soon Marianne joined us as well.
I helped Gun getting her things from the car and she is only spinning from her Samoyeed dogs hair.
Not long after her Catarina and Louise joined the club.
This time we were with 5 women and hopefully next time we will be with a lot more.
Louise was not planning on spinning and we got her to try the spinning wheel in the end as well.
She began with a hand spinner and watched a movie on how to do it.
See how concentrated she is!

And it did not take long until we were spinning on wheels.
Louise is a bit hidden behind Catarina and everyone is spinning on an Ashford Joy.

Karin's spinning wheel (Ashford traditional) did arrive as well so I had to put it together so that Catarina could take it with her to Karin.

Unfortunately Bim was not able to come and I spun at here spinning wheel the Ashford traveller:

The special washing machine I bought in the Netherlands had to be tried out as well and the wool (Texel) came out a bit felted and Rose-Marie helped me by pulling out everything:

 Här sitter Marianne och spinner på sin Louet och ser desutom nöjd ut:

and did we had a good time!

The next pary will start on the 3th of november.
Everyone is welcome!

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Fattigskogen

Is it possible to have that much fun with a knitting camp?
The answer is simple: Yes !!
The whole party started with Heidi and Paulina coming over the day before and we had full house with B&B guests. Birgitta came by as well and decided spontaneously to stay over and we had a great time.
Paulina and I did some shopping in Arvika and we picked up Heidi.
The weather was fine and we sat outside to BBQ, a little wine.........
And I had some packing to do.
A bit late, I agree, but sometimes that is what it is.
With a watching eye from Paulina I did what I had to do and packed everything and was not allowed to do anything else until I was ready. Thank you so much Paulina! Sometimes I need that :)

The next morning we were all excited to go on our way.
The car was packed and ready to go and we went through a little checklist and that made me run into the house 3 more times. Sorry........

Finally we were on our way!!
It was a 2,5 hour drive and I did not do that much of knitting.
I ripped out something and have not finished it yet.

And finally we were there!
A warm welcome from all knitters.
We made ourselves at home and install everything (I slept in a caravan, which was fine) and then back to the main building for some knitting.

The catering was very good, nothing to complain about as well as the hosts.

The next day I had a spinning course and I must say that I am very proud of my students.
Here some pictures.

We started with some very fine sliver and later on they spun from tops.
I hope my students had as much fun as I did. I loved it.
It was nice to see everyone being satisfied with the results.

Some of the students tried out the Ashford Joy spinning wheel as well and they were very good at it as well.
Some people took private lessons all by them selves and the results were stunning!

The following day it was time for a Afghan crochet course or a Tunisian crochet course.
I use for the course a thick 1 ply yarn and in this case it was Odin Superwash by Viking.
It makes a lovely, fluffy look at your garment and I love the way it looks this. A bit like if it is woven.
Every thick 1 ply yarn can be used.
I showed them the basics for this type of crochet and something beautiful came out.
For me it is all about letting your imagination go and make your own creations and some students really did!

On Saturdagnight we had a lottery and this is what I won:

All too soon it was time to go home again.
What a lovely long weekend I have had.
Made a lot of new friends and I hope to see you all again very soon.

I have not covered everything that happened because that would mean writing a whole book.
Still hope you will have an impression of Fattigskogen.

Thank you Ulrika från Stickamera for a wonderful camp

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WWKIP

What a day!

I could borrow my mothers car after all and did drive to Örebro for the WWKIP day.

As always I have to recuperate before I can write again.

Seems to be like that all the time. 

It would be better though to write right away.

I parked the car somewhere and it turned out that I parked at the back of the building where I should be. 

Kind of lucky.

Karin and Catarina were very happy with their Ashford Joy spinning wheels. 

Mission accomplished!

I think there were like 30 people or so. Quit a lot and lots of things to buy!

Karin from Ateljé Norrgården was there with here lovely home dyed yarn.

Linda from Garnstumpan was right beside her with here sister Ulrika from Stickamera.

Here are a few more:

Fröjd Hantverk

Johan Bursell

Sy och Sprätta

Stickhjälpen och många mer.
Louise Moritz provided us with food, coffee and cake.

I met a lovely lady who almost knitted the way I do with long needles and have been struggling Sunday night to hold the work the way she does and have not succeeded yet.
There is hope though because she will attend a spinning course in Oktober by me. 

I had a wonderful time and got a sack of wool as well from Ylva. 

And this is what it looked like when I came in:

Ateljé Norrgården

I love the colours Karin makes

This fabric will be a knitting bag. 

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