Haukeli Sweater, Lingonberries & a Hike to Kvalnes

The forest is full of lingonberries at the momet and I've been picking lots of it. Here in Norway we use ligonberry jam with our meat dinners. A typical norwegian dish is meatcakes with gravy, potatoes, vegetables and lingonbery jam. I guess it's the nodic version of cranberries.

This is the Haukeli sweater and I think it will be my warm and cosy go to sweater this winter :)

 

It's knitted top down and I'm starting to like to knit sweaters this way. It's great to be able to try it on and I find it easier to shape the waist and find the right length for both sleeves and body.

Ravelry project page
Pattern: Haukeli genser from Kofteboken
Yarn: Cascade 220 Heathers #9546 Deep Sea and #8011 Aspen. The colours are most true in the photos were I am wearing it.
Needles: 3 mm / US 2.5 for the ribbing, 4 mm / US 6 for the body and the sleeves and 4,5 mm / US 7 for the colour work.
Size: Large
Modifications: I made short rows in the back to get the neckline higher.

We are having a wonderful fall this year. We've had several days with temperatures around 15 C and no frost yet, so the leaves have had the chance to change colours and stay on the trees and it's so pretty! On Saturday we went hiking to Kvalnes an abandoned place after a big rockslide in 1959 were several people died. Some of the old houses is still there and the view is beautiful. We saw a cople of eagles, picked raspberries and watched tiny fishes in the sea. There are more photos here.

Looking for fish

We started walking at the end of the road in the middle of the photo

The only old house standing. The rest are just ruins.

Wild raspberries :)

Ludwig, Fishing and a Hike To Varto

After finishing my Not so matching stripes socks, I decided to use the remaining yarn for a pair of Ludwig socks. The pattern is from the Op-Art socks book by Stephanie van der Linden and it's my first time knitting mosaic knitting. Which I thought was complicated, but it really isn't as the effect is made by slipped stitches. So I think I 'll have to find another mosaic pattern to try out because these socks was really fun to knit - its almost like knitting a self striping sock, just one more stripe ;)

Ravelry project page
Pattern: Ludwig
Yarn: Eventyr #901 and #903
Needles: 2,25 mm / US 1 and 2,5 mm / US 1.5 (for the cuffs only)
Size: 72 sts

The gusset decreases was knitted under the foot, a type of decrease I tend to like more and more as it doesn't interrupt the pattern as much.

We have been out fishing again. Still no luck catching some big fishes yet, but the boys had some fun time anyhow :)

After we tried our luck fishing we went on a little hike to Varto a small hilltop 216 masl nearby.

   

We walked by a few horses that was trying to find some shade up among the trees.

A fantastic day!

We've spent the day outdoors :) I'll let the pictures speak for themselves about our

Skiing :: Sledding :: Snowshoeing :: Snowfort building 

Sledding

We have had some great weather this weekend. Sun and  temperatures around -6C. Which are mild compared to the -32C we had at the start of the week. Hopefully all this cold weather is over for now.
Since we started to get a bit of cabin fever, we headed out in the forest today for some sledding :)

A fox had been out walking during the night.

The kids made lots of trips up and down the hill. And got some snowbaths too ;)

Endre, Eirin & me by the fire.

We had fried toast with cheese and hot tea for lunch.

The sunset was beautiful.

At the playground, dragonfly and builing a bridge

We've spent the morning in the playground in the park :) Playing, eating pizza and watching a grey heron and ducks.

Later in the day the kids managed to catch a dragonfly. Look at Endre's face - it's the first time he sees one :)

Earlier this week the boys have been busy building a bridge over a little creek we have to cross (jump over) when we go hiking up to our lean-to. And today they desided to make a sign. Translated it means "Creek Bridge".

Baby sweater and a hike

First of all I'll have to let you know that I'm working on importing our hiking blog into this on. It's just to much work to blog in several places... So I know there will be some links not working and maybe some post in the past that will have the same story in different ways, but I hope I'll get around and fix some of it ;)

A friend of mine gave birth to a adorable little girl on Endre's birthday! So finally I could cast on for this sweet little jacket.

Pattern: Baby Sweater on Two Needles by Elizabet Zimmermann.
Yarn: 68 g Babyull from Gjestal # 823.
Needles: 3,5 mm.
Notes: Button holes on row 4, 20, 36, 52, 68, 84 and 100
Increase on row 9, 17 and 27
Start gull pattern on row 28
I knitted the sleeves on dpns afterwards
Put the sleeve st on hold on row 45
After 93 rows I started the garter-st ending
I knitted 40 rows on the sleeve before I started the garter-st ending. I might have knitted a few rows more, because they got a little short.

After a very rainy day yesterday, with the rain pouring down, we had to get those ants out of the kids pants ;) So we went hiking. We made a new "toy" - some ropes to practise the balance on.

The tabanus and deer flies have come with the heat :(  Here's Endre examining one after it's been hit.

And the bog is full of unripe cloudberry :)

Rødbergvarden & Aglapsvika

Finally some sun and warm weather came to the north part og the country :)

So we had to take advantage of it and went hiking yesterday.We hiked to Rødbergvarden.It's one of the easiest tops in Ti på Topp.

There wasn't a lot of hills to climb, but one had got a name :)

But even if it wasn't either very steep or very long, was it good for small feet to get a rest at the end ;)

The top with the beacon in sight.

Finally on the top! And the view is great!

On the way home :) - Who's first down ;)

On the way home made we a stop on the beach in Aglapsvika. We had the beach all to our self. It was a

bit cold for swimming though...