{"id":191,"date":"2010-04-19T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-04-19T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:44:42","slug":"trying-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Trying it on"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a big fan of knitting garments so that you can try them on as you go. I remember when I had the first go at larger projects, in the late 80ies. Square-shaped sweaters knitted from the bottom and up, with separated sleeves that you had to sew on after finishing the knitting. Having spent a lot of time knitting these monstrous pastel sweaters, I still remember the excitement of finally trying them on, and the devastating disappointment when they came out all wrong. Of course, remembering to knit a swatch and to be careful measuring and calculating gauge and stitches, would help, but could not prevent these horrible \u201dknitting-accidents\u201d from happening all together. I love the way knitting has evolved since then, or I guess knitting in it self hasn\u2019t evolved since the techniques was developed \u201dat the beginning of time”. But my knitting skills have definitely evolved, and so for many other knitters as well I guess, since the different techniques now are gathered and made available, and are easily accessed wherever and whenever. I absolutely believe that web communities like Ravelry<\/a>, resource sites like Knittinghelp.com<\/a> and Knitty<\/a>, and of course all the wonderful blogs written by dedicated knitters out there, can take a huge credit for contributing to this. I continually add new sites, to my links page as I stumble over new \u201dtreasures\u201d, so please have a look, you might be inspired or learn something new.<\/p>\n

Let me show you my latest try-on-as-you-go-project. Nemi\u2019s poncho called \u201dTo the most beautiful girl in the world\u201d (hm,,,wonder how that title came up?… ) The poncho is knitted after her instructions, she has designed the whole thing in her head, which yarn, the colours, the shape, then tried to explain this to me. I do believe she is pretty pleased with my interpretation, though as you can see it\u2019s not finished yet. Right across the road from where we live lies the magnificent Abney Park<\/a>. Formerly a garden cemetery from 1840, it is now a woodland memorial park and Local Nature Reserve with free public access. Being a Norwegian I take my son out for a walk, while he lays in the buggy for his nap (we do this is Norway, walk the children in fresh air while they sleep in their buggies). My daughter often accompanies me, and together we walk through this park. It is an atmospheric and picturesque place, which invites to questions and conversations about life, death and all other sorts of mysteries. We also decided that the park would be the perfect backdrop for photographing the poncho in progress. What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Jeg er en stor tilhenger av \u00e5 strikke plagg som kan pr\u00f8ves underveis. Jeg husker godt de f\u00f8rste gangene jeg satte i gang med store prosjekt, sent p\u00e5 80-tallet. Gensere med firkantet fasong, strikket nedenifra og opp, med separate ermer som skulle syes p\u00e5 etterp\u00e5. Etter \u00e5 ha brukt utrolig lang tid p\u00e5 \u00e5 strikke disse enorme pastell plaggene, husker jeg fremdeles spenningen ved \u00e5 endelig skulle f\u00e5 pr\u00f8ve dem p\u00e5, og den bunnl\u00f8se skuffelsen da de endte opp med \u00e5 se helt feil ut. Selvf\u00f8lgelig, \u00e5 strikke pr\u00f8velapp, og v\u00e6re n\u00f8ysom med \u00e5 regne ut strikkefasthet og antall masker hjalp p\u00e5, men det kunne heller ikke forhindre at slikke strikkekatastrofer skjedde med gjevne mellomrom. Jeg er s\u00e5 glad for hvordan strikkingen har utviklet seg siden da. Eller, det er jo ikke strikkingen i seg selv som har endret seg, teknikkene har jo v\u00e6rt utviklet siden \u201dtidenes morgen\u201d. Men mine strikkeferdigheter har definitivt utviklet seg, og det tror jeg gjelder mange strikkere, fordi de ulike teknikkene er samlet og gjort tilgjengelige for alle n\u00e5rsomhelst og hvorsomhelst. Jeg er helt sikker p\u00e5 at nettsteder som Ravelry<\/a>, Knittinghelp.com<\/a> og Knitty<\/a>, og selvf\u00f8lgelig alle de fantastiske strikkebloggene kan ta en stor del av \u00e6ren for dette. Jeg pr\u00f8ver \u00e5 holde lenkesiden min oppdatert etter hvert som jeg snubler over nye \u201dskatter\u201d, bare ta deg en tur \u00e5 se, kanskje du blir inspirert eller kan l\u00e6re noe nytt.<\/p>\n

La meg vise deg det mitt p\u00e5g\u00e5ende pr\u00f8v-mens-du-strikker prosjekt. Nemis poncho kalt \u201dTo the most beautiful girl in the world\u201d (lurer p\u00e5 hvordan akkurat den tittelen kom opp?…) Ponchoen er strikket etter hennes instruksjoner, hun har designet plagget selv, hvilket garn, hvilke farger, hvilken fasong, og s\u00e5 har hun pr\u00f8vd \u00e5 formidle dette til meg. Jeg tror hun er ganske forn\u00f8yd med min evne til \u00e5 tolke hennes forklaring, men som du kan se, den er ikke helt ferdig enda. Rett over veien fra der vi bor ligger den fantastiske Abney Park<\/a>. Parken som tidligere var en kirkeg\u00e5rd grunnlagt i 1840, er n\u00e5 en skog, et minnesmerke, og et lokalt naturreservat som er gjort offentlig tilgjengelig. Som de fleste norske tar jeg med Lillegutt ut n\u00e5r han skal sove formiddagslur (dette er nemlig ikke vanlig her i England, har jeg funnet ut), og jeg f\u00e5r ofte selskap av Nemi, storepia mi. Det er en atmosf\u00e6risk og billedskj\u00f8nn park, som inviterer til sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l og samtaler om livet, d\u00f8den og andre av verdens mysterier. Vi bestemte ogs\u00e5 at denne parken var en egnet bakgrunn for \u00e5 fotografere den p\u00e5g\u00e5ende ponchoen. Hva synes du?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a big fan of knitting garments so that you can try them on as you go. I remember when I had the first go at larger projects, in the late 80ies. Square-shaped sweaters knitted from the bottom and up, with separated sleeves that you had to sew on after finishing the knitting. Having spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-resourses","category-work-in-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}