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What inspires you? And where do you go to find inspiration? What about the difference between when you are happy, healthy and bursts with energy, and when you are mellow, tired and the energy is low? I\u2019m thinking a lot about this these days, and would really like to know your thoughts about this. I would be very pleased if any of you would take your time to comment and tell me: what inspires you?<\/p>\n

Speaking about myself I would have to say that a cup of delicious vanilla sweetened latte and good atmosphere at one of my favourite caf\u00e9s is a good start. Something else that really inspires me is the way people more and more tend to incorporate their attitudes and values into their knitting. It seems to me that the acknowledgement of knitting as a means of expression of ideas (as well as and in addition to expressing cultural heritage and esthetical design) is gaining wider and wider territory. Guerilla knitting, also known as graffiti knitting, is a good example of this. I\u2019ve been a fan of guerilla knitting \u201dforever\u201d, and I have written about it earlier here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Guerilla knitting is dressing different objects in public space using knitting and crocheting. The reasons for doing this can be many. Some emphasize Guerilla knitting as a means to feminize the growing world of street art through an expression that is both beautiful and nondamaging. This<\/a> is an article with this perspective published by CNN last December. Others emphasise Guerilla knitting as a way of claiming public space back to the public, protesting against the commercializing of our common urban environments through visual pollution caused by multibillion companies and their massive advertising campaigns. No matter how you chose to define it, Guerilla knitting, like all knitting, is a manifestation of the personal voice, the difference is that it is public and visible to all so more people will have the opportunity to notice it. Any handcrafted idem is a unique individual statement, it cannot be duplicated or mass-produced, it represents an individual voice. It can, but it doesn\u2019t have to be a result of a political or philosophical statement, or claim to bring any kind of answers to the world. It usually is a result of the immediate, the moment, of the inspiration. You are spending the day in the park, it is a warm and sunny summer day, enjoying the sun you knit up a little something by imagination and decides that it will be fun to stitch it up in a tree. Later, a cold winter day, someone notices your piece while rushing by and gets inspired! I often find the immediate, the in the moment expression, the most meaningful one.<\/p>\n

Just down the road from where I live, someone has locked a white bike to the street light pole. It has been standing there for a very long time and no one has removed it yet. Maybe nobody notices it? When someone put it there, or why, is a mystery to me. What are they trying to express? This bike is screaming for a knitted accessory, and I really want to make one. Everyday when I go out I think to my self \u201cthe bike must have been removed now, and I didn\u2019t get around to knit for it\u201d. But every day it\u2019s still there, naked and white, waiting for me to come and stitch it up. Now, that is what I call inspiration! <\/p>\n

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Hva inspirerer deg? Og hvor leter du etter inspirasjon? Hva med n\u00e5r du er frisk og glad, til forskjell med n\u00e5r du er sliten og tungsindig. Jeg tenker mye p\u00e5 dette med inspirasjon for tiden, og vil veldig gjerne vite hva du tenker om dette. Jeg blir veldig glad om du tar deg tid til \u00e5 legge igjen en kommentar og fortelle meg litt om hva som inspirerer deg.<\/p>\n

N\u00e5r det gjelder meg selv s\u00e5 m\u00e5 jeg si at en kopp med kaffe latte med vaniljesirup og avslappende stemning p\u00e5 en av mine favoritt cafeer er en god start. Noe annet som virkelig inspirerer meg er hvordan flere og flere bruker strikking til \u00e5 uttrykke holdninger og verdier. Det virker p\u00e5 meg som om strikkingens anerkjennelse som uttrykksform for ideer (i tillegg til \u00e5 uttrykke kulturarv og estetisk design) blir st\u00f8rre og st\u00f8rre. Guerilla strikking, ogs\u00e5 kjent som graffiti strikking, er et godt eksempel p\u00e5 dette. Jeg har v\u00e6rt tilhenger av guerilla strikking lenge, og har skrevet om det tidligere, her<\/a> og her<\/a>. Guerilla strikking er \u00e5 kle objekter i det offentlige rom med strikk eller heklerier, og grunnen til \u00e5 gj\u00f8re dette kan v\u00e6re flere. Noen legger vekt p\u00e5 guerilla strikking som en feminisering av gatekunsten gjennom et nytt uttrykk som er b\u00e5de visuelt vakkert og ikke-\u00f8deleggende p\u00e5 omgivelsene. Her<\/a> finner du en artikkel med denne vinklingen utgitt av CNN sist desember. Andre legger vekt p\u00e5 guerilla strikking som en metode for \u00e5 kreve tilbake det offentlige rom, en protest mot kommersialiseringa av v\u00e5rt felles urbane landskap gjennom visuell forurensing for\u00e5rsaket av store selskaper og deres massive reklamekampanjer. Uansett hvordan du velger \u00e5 definere det, guerilla strikking i likhet med all strikking er en manifestasjon av den personlige stemme, forskjellen ligger i det at det er synliggjort for flere slik at flere f\u00e5r muligheten til \u00e5 legge merke til det. Enhver h\u00e5ndlaget gjenstand er et unikt individuelt uttrykk, det kan ikke dupliseres eller masseproduseres, det representerer en personlig stemme. Den kan, men m\u00e5 ikke n\u00f8dvendigvis v\u00e6re et resultat av en politisk eller filosofisk holdning, eller hevde \u00e5 bringe noen form for svar til verden. Vanligvis er den et resultat av nuet, av \u00f8yeblikket, av inspirasjonen. Du tilbringer en dag i parken, det er en varm og solrik sommerdag, mens du nyter solen strikker du opp noe fra fantasien og bestemmer deg for at det vil v\u00e6re artig \u00e5 sy dette fast opp i et tre. Senere, en kald vinterdag, legger noen merke til det du har laget i det de haster forbi, og blir inspirert! Jeg finner ofte det moment\u00e6re, \u00f8yeblikkets uttrykk, som det mest meningsfulle. <\/p>\n

Rett ned i gata der jeg bor har noen l\u00e5st fast en hvit sykkel til lyktestolpen. Sykkelen har st\u00e5tt der veldig lenge og ingen har fjernet den enda. Kanskje det er ingen som legger merke til den? N\u00e5r den ble plassert der, eller hvorfor, er meg et mysterium. Hva skal den uttrykke? Denne sykkelen formelig roper etter strikket tilbeh\u00f8r, og jeg har s\u00e5 lyst til \u00e5 lage noe. Hver dag n\u00e5r jeg skal til \u00e5 g\u00e5 ut s\u00e5 tenker jeg for meg selv at n\u00e5 er den sikkert fjernet, og det f\u00f8r jeg rakk \u00e5 strikke til den. Men neida, den st\u00e5r der fremdeles, like hvit og naken, ventende p\u00e5 at jeg skal komme \u00e5 kle p\u00e5 den. N\u00e5, det er hva jeg kaller inspirasjon! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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