Monday, January 18, 2010

Another dotty shawl


Another dotty shawl, originally uploaded by lille-ursus.

This dotty shawl was one of the birthday gifts we gave Anne-Sophie when she turned 18. She already has a similar shawl in brown and that is her favourite.

Anne-Sophie had written on her wish list, that she wanted another dotty shawl knitted by me. The only problem - for me - was that she added the wish only 3 days before her birthday!!

I knitted and knitted as much as I was able to, and put away the knitting a numerous amount of times, in order for her not to see it.

I managed to keep it a surprise, but didn't get it done for her special day.( I had predicted that...) But I folded the knitting as neat as possible, and wrapped it.

Luckily she got very surprised and happy, eventhough it was only ½ a shawl....

written by kl.

7 comments:

  1. Nö18 January, 2010 14:00

    I love it that you are still able to surprise Anne-Sophie even with her being 18 years now.

    The shawl looks cute, how do you do the knots?

    Thanks for the recipe, I will try it out but one more thing, how do you make the icing? We don't make it here in Germany that often, at least it seems so, I have not a clue how to make it...

    Big hug, Nina

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  2. Rosanna18 January, 2010 17:24

    Hvor er det skønt!, at din datter ønsker sig noget, som du har lavet til hende.... dét er da fantastisk!!!! Men det ser også ud til at være et skønt sjal :O)

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  3. MollyMy18 January, 2010 21:41

    Sikke en inspirerende blog du har. Kigger mig lige lidt omkring.
    Kh Birthe

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  4. Gitte18 January, 2010 22:03

    Det ser helt fantastisk ud det sjal. Og så hjemmelavet. Ligner noget meget dyrt noget. Du må altså lige beskrive hvordan du gør....

    Hvad skal du lave i morgen aften (tirsdag) kl. 17.30?

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  5. Anonymous19 January, 2010 02:57

    Now she has something to look forward to. Fantastic job!

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  6. Ulla V.19 January, 2010 09:55

    I really love that too, Nina. I got so happy when she wrote that particular wish. :))

    I will try to explain how I make the dots:
    -At first I knit 5 stitches in one stitch on the frontside of the work - 1 knitstitch, 1 purl, 1 knitstitch, 1 purl, 1 knitstitch.
    - then I turn the knitting to the wrongside of the work and purl the 5 stitches
    - then I turn the work to the frontside again and knitstitch 2 stitches together and then knitstitch 3 stiches together.
    - and finally I pass 1 stitch over so you end up with one stitch.
    Continue to knit as usual...

    I don't know whether this makes sense at all! If not, then please ask.

    For the icing on the cake I used icing sugar and a tiny bit of water mixed together. It must not be too thin nor too thick. And of course blue color for food. That's it!

    A big hug for you too. :))
    Ulla

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    Ja, jeg blev altså også helt glad over det, Rosanna. :)) Jeg ville nemlig så gerne lave noget til hende. (Jeg havde godt nok lavet en bog til hende med billeder gennem hendes barndom, som hver især passede til de karaktertræk der kendetegner Anne-Sophie).
    Sjalet er utrolig varmt og Anne-Sophie har næsten altid har et tørklæde eller et sjal om halsen. :))

    Hav en dejlig tirsdag. :))

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    Mange tak, MollyMy :)) Kig bare alt det du vil...jeg håber, at du vil kigge forbi en anden gang. ;)

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    1000 tak, Gitte. :)) Det er jeg glad for at du synes.

    Det er faktisk meget enkelt at lave sjalet.
    Jeg startede med at slå 3 masker op, der slås en ny maske op i enden af hver pind, og knopperne strikkes med 7 masker mellem hver samt på hver 8. pind. Knopperne er forskudt på hver anden række.

    Knopperne laves sådan her:
    - Jeg strikker 5 masker i den samme maske - 1r, 1vr, 1r, 1 vr, 1r
    - Arbejdet vendes og de 5 masker strikkes vrang tilbage.
    - De 2 første retmasker strikkes sammen og de resterende 3 masker strikkes sammen.
    - Der er nu 2 masker. Den bagerste maske trækkes over den første.
    - Strik videre som normalt.

    Jeg håber, at det giver mening!

    I aften er jeg på pletten, kan du tro. Jeg glæder mig helt vildt til det EM. ;)) Lad os satste på sejr!

    Hav det nu godt...

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    She sure has, Mildawg ;)) And I'm doing my best to finish it as soon as possible. Thanks a lot. :))

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  7. Nö19 January, 2010 14:07

    You are a busy bee and always trying out different patterns! Thanks for the HOW TO and thanks for the explanation of the icing, will show you my try when I made one...

    Big hug, Nina

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