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<\/center><\/p>\nSpeaking of gifts, I know the Christmas rush has started for a lot of knitters out there; there are a lot of needles running warm the last month before Christmas. Personally I\u2019m no fan of knitted Christmas gifts. It often seem like friends and families of knitters expect knitted gifts, without having any idea of the time and effort you have to put into each project. No, I have to admit I\u2019m a selfish knitter; I knit mostly for my self, for my kids, and once in a while for family and friends. Only once have I knitted a Christmas gift, and that was last year. My Father in law made it very clear that he wished for a new hat, and so I made him one. I avoid the knitting Christmas rush because I don\u2019t want to put pressure on myself to finish within certain deadlines, and end up hating the project I\u2019m working on, or even worse to loose my knitting mojo. I\u2019ve seen how a grandmother or an aunt knit a pair of socks, and then suddenly everyone wants these particular socks, and the poor knitter has to produce one pair after the other of the same design. Now, of course I know that a lot of people take pleasure in this, love knitting socks or mittens, and really enjoy how happy family members are to receive them. But a whole life of mittens and socks are not for me. So I rarely knit Christmas gifts…until now. <\/p>\n
Siden jeg er inne p\u00e5 dette med gaver. Jeg vet at julestresset er virkelig i gang for mange strikkere der ute, det er mange strikkepinner som virkelig g\u00e5r varme om dagen. Personlig s\u00e5 er jeg ingen stor tilhenger av strikkede julegaver. Det virker for meg som om venner og famile av strikkere ofte forventer strikkede gaver, uten at de har noen formening om hvor mye tid og innsats som faktisk g\u00e5r inn i hvert prosjekt. Nei, jeg m\u00e5 nok innr\u00f8mme at jeg er en egoistisk strikker; jeg strikker mest til meg selv, til mine barn, og en sjelden gang til venner og famile. Faktisk s\u00e5 har jeg s\u00e5 langt bare strikket en julegave, og det var i fjor. Svigerfar gjorde det klart at han \u00f8nsket seg ei ny lue, og det fikk han. Jeg ung\u00e5r julestrikkestresset fordi jeg ikke \u00f8nsker \u00e5 legge press p\u00e5 meg selv for \u00e5 gj\u00f8re ferdig noe innen en viss tidsfrist, for s\u00e5 \u00e5 ende opp med \u00e5 hate prosjektet jeg arbeider med, eller enda verre for s\u00e5 \u00e5 miste lidenskapen. Jeg har sett hvordan en tante eller bestemor strikker et nydelig par sokker for s\u00e5 \u00e5 oppleve at alle vil ha et par, og s\u00e5 ender den stakkars strikkeren opp med \u00e5 masseprodusere en mengde par av den samme modellen. Selvf\u00f8lgelig skj\u00f8nner jeg at det er mange som faktisk finner glede i dette, de elsker \u00e5 strikke votter og sokker, og gleder seg over mottakernes takknemlighet, men et helt liv med sokker og votter er virkelig ikke noe for meg. S\u00e5 jeg strikker ikke julegaver…f\u00f8r n\u00e5.<\/em><\/p>\n This year I have a Christmas plan, and my needles are running warm too. I\u2019m going to give a knitted scarf to the women who had a tremendous influence on my life: my Mom, my Grandmother and my Mother in law. I\u2019ve been searching the web for nice patterns and found a few. My Grandmother is getting the Challenging Lace Scarf<\/a> by OzYarn, unfortunately this company has gone out of business and their website is no longer maintained, so the link provided is from the Wayback Machine site. This is a brilliant pattern that can be converted to any yarn you want to use, and it is really easy, not challenging at all. The picture shows my work in progress, but I actually just cast it off a few minutes ago. So one down, two to go. For my Mother in law I just cast on the Wisp<\/a> by Cheryl Niamath published in the Knitty summer issue of 2007<\/a>. This is also a really simple pattern that is easy to convert to suit your ideas. Mine is not as wide, and will be longer and without the buttons. I \u00e5r har jeg nemlig en juleplan, og ogs\u00e5 mine pinner g\u00e5r varme. Jeg skal gi et strikket skjerf til de kvinnene som har hatt enormt stor inflytelse p\u00e5 mitt liv: Mamma, Bestemor, og Svigermor. Jeg har leita p\u00e5 nettet etter m\u00f8nstre og har funnet noen f\u00e5 som jeg synes er veldig fine. Bestemor skal f\u00e5 the Challenging Lace Scarf<\/a> fra OzYarn, desverre er OzYarn ute av drift s\u00e5 linken er fra arkivsiden the Wayback Machine. Dette er et brilliant m\u00f8nster som kan tilpasses til enhver garntype, og det er virkelig enkelt, ikke utfordrende i det hele tatt noe som navnet kanskje hentyder. Bildet viser skjerfet mens jeg arbeidet med det, men jeg har akkurat felt det av. S\u00e5 ett ferdig, to igjen. Til min svigermor har jeg g\u00e5tt igang med the Wisp<\/a> av Cheryl Niamath utgitt i Knitty sommeren 2007<\/a>. Dette er ogs\u00e5 et enkelt og greit m\u00f8nster som lett lar seg forandre p\u00e5 etter dine egne \u00f8nsker. Det jeg lager blir ikke s\u00e5 vidt som orginalen, men lengre, og jeg dropper ogs\u00e5 knappene. S\u00e5 da er det Mamma sitt som gjenst\u00e5r, og hvilket det blir har jeg ikke funnet ut helt enda, men en ting er sikkert det m\u00e5 bli ferdig til jul…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I had the best morning ever. My beautiful family woke me up, fed me cake, gave me presents, and left me so that I could sleep for another hour. What a joy!!! There was one present in particular that really made my day. 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\nNow, for my Mom, I\u2019m not sure yet, but it will have to be done by Christmas…<\/p>\n