{"id":61,"date":"2008-02-21T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-02-21T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T13:34:03","slug":"new-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"New Gadget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me show you my new gadget. This is just an incredible handy tool that every knitter should have among his or her equipment. It\u2019s used for making i-cords, and depending on how many pegs your tool has (usually four to eight) and how large the hole in the middle is, you can vary the thickness size of your cord. Now, loved objects usually have many names, so does this one. In English I\u2019ve heard the terms spool, knitting doll and Knitting Nancy. The first name refers to the fact that from the old days this tool was usually made from an empty sewing tread spool with small nails placed on the top. This is by the way an excellent and easy way to make your own tool. The second and third name refers to the tendency of making these tools as small wooden dolls and decorating them accordingly. Here in Norway we call it strikkelise, translated into English that would be something like Knitting Lise. Lise is a common doll\u2019s (and girl\u2019s) name in Scandinavia, and so you also find this term in use in Denmark and Sweden. Personally I really liked the look of my new one, the see through thick glasslike plastic, added some glam to my work, and I like glam.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img337.imageshack.us\/img337\/834\/strikkelise2dh5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>La meg vise dere min nye ervervelse. Dette er er bare et utrolig praktisk verkt\u00f8y som burde finnes i en hver strikkers utstyrsboks. Du bruker den til \u00e5 lage snor og tynne tau. Avhengig av hvor mange stifter den har (vanligvis mellom fire og \u00e5tte), og hvor bredt hullet i midten er, kan du variere tykkelsen p\u00e5 snora du lager. Kj\u00e6rt barn har mange navn og s\u00e5nn er det med dette verkt\u00f8yet ogs\u00e5. P\u00e5 engelsk har jeg h\u00f8rt uttrykkene \u201cspool\u201d (snelle), \u201cknitting doll\u201d (strikkedukke) og \u201cKnitting Nancy\u201d (Strikke Nancy). P\u00e5 norsk har jeg for det meste h\u00f8rt at strikkelise brukes som navn. Det navnet refererer nok til at fra gammelt av ble disse laget som utskj\u00e6rte sm\u00e5 tredukker og dekorert deretter. En flott m\u00e5te \u00e5 lage sin egen strikkelise p\u00e5 er \u00e5 sette fire eller flere sm\u00e5 spikre i toppen p\u00e5 en gammeldags tom tr\u00e5dsnelle i tre. S\u00e5 er det bare \u00e5 g\u00e5 i gang. Selv syns jeg at min nye strikkelise var s\u00e6rdeles lekker, gjennomsiktig og greier. Den tilf\u00f8rer litt beskjeden glamour til arbeidet mitt, og litt glamour det har man ikke vondt av.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me show you my new gadget. This is just an incredible handy tool that every knitter should have among his or her equipment. It\u2019s used for making i-cords, and depending on how many pegs your tool has (usually four to eight) and how large the hole in the middle is, you can vary the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}