UFOs

UnFinished Objects. I can be a bit impulsive and adventurous, and when I see something that looks interesting and fun, or if I simply get an idea, I HAVE to try it out. NOW. Thus abandoning things I'm currently working on. Sometimes I get back to them within a short time, sometimes within a year or in one case, after six years. Yep... BUT, I never give up entirely on anything! ;P

Today's post is dedicated to all my unfinished projects that are lying around. There are a few, and these are not including jewelry and drawing projects.

There's the technique I just had to try today: domino knitting.

Knitting is not my strongest suit, I had to watch this video a couple of times before I got it, but if I can get the hang of it, you certainly can too! :D
My brain sounds like this when I do it: lift,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, lift one off, two together, lift back over, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, turn, lift, normal back, lift, 2,3,4,5,6,7, lift one, two together, lift back over, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,turn, lift, normal back, lift, 2,3,4,5,6, lift etc...

We have the poor old lady without a body. I made the head from Sculpey skintoned clay, painted effects and put wool for hair on her, and made hands, but before I figured out a neat way to make a body for her, I just had to try something else....

..... like needle tatting. This is my favourite thing at the moment.

I started knitting traditional, Norwegian mittens, called Selbuvotter (not my flickr account) for my sweetheart. Goal is to have them ready by November. Plenty of time! Ahem....

Baby blanket for my niece. Needs to be done by end of June, but this is easy enough, and I always work better under pressure anyway :)

Will be baby socks, matching the hat there. Small enough project, no sweat. 

 

Knitted Harry Potter's Gryffindor scarf, double layered. Scarves are a big yawn. Probably a six year project :P

(colours are a bit off, they're crimson and mustard. As mentioned earlier, I don't know first thing about photography)

 

 My crocheted granny blanket is also one of my favourite projects. It's the same technique as with the baby blanket, but instead of going around and around, I make small squares with three rounds. There's no rush with this one, it's a huge project, and I absolutely love it.

Also today, my SO and I started on this 3000 piece puzzle of an old fashioned world map, that we'll hang on our wall when it's finished. My SO is king when it comes to puzzles, so I'm not worried that this won't be finished :)

Sooo... I guess I should go finish something then.... ;)

This little sheep came home with me from the market

There is an organization in Norway, called Norges Husflidlag that works to preserve and spread the knowledge of various crafts, and I signed up as a member a couple of months ago. Today, they had their traditional easter market, where members could sell what they produce.
Husfliden, as it is commonly called, is divided into local divisions; just here in Oslo there are 11. At the market where I was, there were 6-7 other women selling their products, I was the youngest by far, which was first a bit unnerving, then quite charming.
I felt like a brat, not just because of the age difference, but also because they really knew what they were doing- their products had such quality to them, where my stuff is elementary and obviously experimental.
They sold a lot. A LOT. I sold one shawl.
But I had such a nice time that I don't care! :D

It was a great experience and I got to come out of my I'm-shy-about-displaying-my-stuff-at-a-market-shell and I'm looking forward to the next one :)
The next time I'll bring a table cloth, though..


I displayed shawls and throws, the pink and the burgundy is tunisian crocheted, the multicoloured(which I call the sea shawl, because it has the colours of the sea) is crocheted. The beige wristwarmers are also tunisian crochet. Some bracelets in the bottom corner.

 

I displayed various jewelry, and buttons and apliques and tatted lace trims......

 

 ......and crocheted gift bags and slippers for toddlers.

 

The market was held in an old farm building. I loved it!

 

Sitting there for a few hours, trying not to look too desperate for people to buy my stuff, it was nice to keep myself occupied with surprise, surprise: tatting a lace trim!

The lady at the table next to me sold only easter stuff. I tink she sold the most today. I nicked her the Easterlady. I bought this sheep from the Easterlady, it was so darn cute(it's roughly 7-8cm tall)!

Tatting

I made a friend through Reddit, that shares my passion for crafts, and she had found some tatting shuttles in a box she had bought at a market. Being an awsome person, she sent them to me by mail so that they would come to use. And use them I indeed intend to do :)

Thanks, Bobbi!

Tatting, called nuperelle in Norwegian, is a lace making technique that involves a series of knots and loops that forms rings and chains. The technique has been around since the early 1800s and was developed to imitiate the by far more elaborate and intricate point lace.
There are different ways to tat; shuttle tatting, needle tatting and cro-tatting, the latter is a mix between tatting and crochet.
I've only tried with shuttle and needle, and of the two I am most comfortable with the needle. All the new shuttles I got yesterday is a good incentive to practice more with shuttles :) I'll ask my friend Hege, who is a master at shuttle tatting, to come show me some tricks ;)

Needletatting, with beads:

Shuttle tattig:

Lace trim with beads:

Butterflies:

Simple lace trim:

Another lace trim with beads:

Idon'tknowyet thing:

Will-be-lace-trim bits:

More lace trim:

Earrings:

I think it's safe to conclude that I like to make lace trims:)