Cloudberry

This year Summer came in September!
We have had a whole month of wonderful autumn weather. We have tried to be out in the forest each weekend and there is something special about sitting in the dusk knitting by the fire at night :) And when it starts to get darker it's great that the project is something easy and mindless like the Dream Stripes shawl.


Due to some frost nights almost all the leaves has fallen off the trees, but there is still lots of vibrant colours in the forest.


The last couple of months I have had a pair of thick woolen socks or "læsta" as we call it where I live, in my knitting bag when I have been out in the forest. It's great to have a mindless project stuffed away in my backpack if I feel the desire to knit a few rows here and there. And as you can see it ended up being three pairs, one for me and two for Hubby.

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.

It's been raining here for days now... But we decided to pack our backpacks and head out in the forest snowshoeing today despite the rain. And I had some great hours with my boys :)

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Twist Bread

5oo ml flour
0.5 teaspoon baking powder
0.5 packet of dry yeast
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
5 tablespoon oil
200 ml water

Mix it all and let it rise about 30-45 minutes before use.
Twist it around a stick or a fried sausage. It tastes good with sugar and cinnamon too :)

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I finished these for my daughter on Friday. A thick pair of sock/slippers.

Ravelry project page
Pattern: Moon Socks (free pattern)
Modifications: I decided to knit them with a heel and foot as a normal socks.
Yarn: 200 g Happy #52103 and #52102
Needles: 6 mm / US 10
Size: ca. eu 38

The kids had their last day at school on friday, so summer break is here for the next couple of months :) The rain finally stoped and the sun came out. It's not warm, just around 10 C. But we after weeks with rain and even snow and hail, it's great to be out in the forest. We've been to our lean-to in the forest behind our house the last two days. And today Eirin almost walked on a willow grouse nest. The mama bird took off right in front of her and almost scared us all to death. We have marked the place, so we will get back and see if there are some chicks :)


The Bog bean is flowering. Love this little wildflower.


From yesterdays hike in the forest. We found lots of tinder fungus.


And I finally remember to stop at this waterfall we always drive by on the way to my mom.
It's a place I visited often as a kid.

- Hiking through Gumpedalen to Steinora, a big scree. You can see more pictures and read about it here.
- Buying the last things the kids need for tomorrows first day back to school.
- Eating blueberrypai with icecream :)
- Watching the 10th kingdom.
- A bit knitting.

The kids are spending the week with my mom, so I'm alone during the day until Hubby comes home from work. Since the weather was great today with 18 C, I desided I'd take a walk in the forest to our lean-to. So I grabbed my camera and a water bottle and headed out. I haden't come far before I heard some noises, I just thought I had scared a bird up. But no, just ahead was four mooses! I only managed to take a few (not so good) pictures before they saw me and ran away. So I sure received more than I seeked today :) Just wish the kids had been with me, but then again, I guess they would have made so much noice that the mooses would have ran off before we would even now they were there...


I must say I wasn't sure if I should walk all the way up to the lean-to, knowing there was four mooses running around in the forest. But I desided to walk on, and it was good to rest and have a sip of water when I came up. I couldn't sit for long though as I got surronded by horse flies :(


If it hadn't been for all the flies I might have laid down in one of these soft spots. Big areas of the  forest are filled with the flowers of skrubbær / Bunchberry. Looking forward to Fall when all this will become red.








I almost steped on this tiny frog when I headed home, but I managed to grab him before he jumped his way into the gras.

It's been a week with some wonderful fall weather. We've had temperatures up around 15 C, so it's been great to spend time outside. The kids and I was on a local childrens club on Thursday. And Endre was soaking wet after playing in the water, throwing stones and looking for treasures :) Eirin was just a huge, big smile after riding the horse Salt & Pepper :)
And yesterday was spent by the lean-to picking berries. We picked blueberries, lingonberries and black crowberries. We make jam of the blue - and lingon berries. We use lingonberry jam as a accessory to meat dinner. Like meatcakes in gravy or game meat. I'm going to make syrup of the crowberries.
We have some berries in the garden as well. Blackcurrant and the berries from the Bird Cherry. I haven't used the Bird cherry berries before, but have found a recipe for a liquer. So if I have enough berries I might give it a try ;)
While we were in the forest, some sheep got close and the kids managed to pet one of them before they ran away. And nothing tastes as good as lunch made over an open fire! We had fishcake burgers ;)

...been waking up to fog all around us each morning.


...found pearls of dew in spider webs.


...been picking berries.


...eating blueberry crumble pai with vanilla icecream. Recipe here.


...watched spiders with very long legs.


...enjoyd fall!