#Norwegian knitting

[vintage-norway]

Traditional Norwegian mittens

These are some traditional Norwegian mittens. The photos include geopraphical area aswell as as time period.

[lightlyknitted]

Found a new Knitting related app called Woolit.

It's Norwegian but it seems really cool from what little I can understand (the website has English and Norwegian pages but the app does not as far as I can see).

The tik Tok that recommended it showed how you could design a colorwork sweater and I am blown away!

Might learn some Norwegian so I can try the app better.

[devidadesign]

"Finally, I've completed the rainbow shawl. It's large and I've adorned it with sparkling sequins. The pattern is simple yet intricate, with a beautiful lacy design. Now, I've started working on a shawl for my daughter using the same pattern but in different vibrant colors. It's such a joy to create something so colorful and special for my loved ones."😍😍

Cathrine-Devida

[ub-sessed]

Knitters: Do any of you know if this particular knitting pattern has a name?

Mittens are from the Selbu museum.

I'm pretty sure it's a Selbu pattern; I know it's Norwegian. Do the different Selbu patterns have names?

[maybejuel]

Almost a year ago, I moved to Norway for my volunteer year. The country is absolutely beautiful, my work here too. I learned two new languages and so much more.

6 months ago, I started knitting "Andebugenseren", the sweater pattern of my town. Several times, I had to stop while knitting because I was just in awe of what my hands are able to create. There is probably not a millimeter that I didn't touch while I made stich after stich, row after row. I know that there are several "mistakes" in there, but I don't care, because they are what makes this one so unique.

Now, in ten days, my volunteer year will finish and this sweater will always represent the awesome time I had in Norway. Now that I finished it, I'm truly ready for this chapter of my life to close.

[omgthatdress]

Norway!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vesterheim Museum, (1, 2)

[ifindus]

since you seem to know a lot of history, I was wondering if you could tell us a little more about norway and his role during ww2, I feel like not a lot of people talk about his importance as an ally.

Let's pretend this wasn't sent back in November! Of course I can!!And "a little" turned into a decent amount 😳

Norway declared itself neutral when the war started in 1939, but became occupied by Germany in April 1940. Throughout the war Norway played an important role helping the allies win. Note that there is also a lot to be said about Norwegian collaboration with the occupiers during these years as well, but that is not the topic of this post.

During the war Norway had both a military and a civil resistance movement. The civil movement was directed towards NS (Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian nazi party and the only party allowed during these years) attempts at converting people to nazism, while the military resistance were building an underground army who were prepared to step in for the liberation and who also organized sabotages during the last year.

Norway’s government went into exile in London, and was in large responsible for Norway’s war effort and resistance. They took control of the Norwegian merchant ships and put it at the allies disposal, probably Norway’s most important asset and contribution to the war effort. The Norwegian marine and air-force also partook in operations along the Allies, and a Norwegian brigade was organized in Scotland, who were to partake in the final liberation of Norway.

The exiled government had an extensive running contact with the growing resistance back home in Norway, and could gradually provide the resistance with supplies and other support. Soldiers from the Scottish base were sent on missions to aid the resistance in Norway and conduct sabotages.

There as also a base for Norwegian resistance established in Stockholm, who were eventually allowed by the Swedish government to form a military force of 14 500 people under disguise of being police. About 50 000 Norwegians fled to Sweden during the war, and many Norwegians in the border areas aided them as guides over the mountains through difficult and secret passages – they also smuggled goods and supplies through the same routes.

The civil resistance was not exclusively organized, but included everyone who was not a nazi and could be as simple as civil disobedience. Teachers, parents, and priests opposed the effort to convert the youth to nazism by the NS through forced nazi curriculums in schools and obligatory youth service. Other examples of civil resistance were Norwegian workers sabotaging or not even doing the bare minimum at the jobs in factories for the Germans, and the publishing of illegal news-papers which were spread by people handing them to the next person. The most famous illegal news-paper was London-Nytt (London News), and were just Norwegian translations of BBC broadcasts transcribed directly from illegal radios.

The military resistance was known as MILORG, and this secret group had its peak in the last year of the war. This was when they began receiving guns, military equipment and professionals. During the last year they carried out assassinations and sabotages to a much more effective and extensive degree. MILORG was taking orders from the Norwegian military in London and coordinating with them, passing vital information back and forth.

When the Second World War began, Norway was the world’s fourth largest shipping nation, after Great Britain, USA, and Japan, with the Norwegian fleet being the most modern. When Norway was occupied and the Germans demanded Norwegian ships return to Norwegian ports, all of the around 1 000 ships set sail for Allied ports. The Norwegian government in exile commanded all Norwegian ships sail for securing supplies for Norway and the Allies. The ships supplied Great Britain with invaluable wares such as food and oil, and kept up the transatlantic trade during the war. The Norwegian sailors were also present at evacuations and invasions of occupied France and fascist Italy, North-Africa, and Normandy in 1944. The Norwegian ships were under constant attack from the German fleet and many sailors lost their lives transporting for the Allies, most of them working continuously for the five years Norway was at war. Almost half of Norway’s fallen during the war were sailors killed at sea.

[zosiayarn]

whyyyy is the cuff the most tedious part of the sock. im just dying to get to the mindless part of knitting in the round.

[motorharp]

I realized when I was taking progress photos that I might be able to stitch them together into a gif. Note I said "might".

[david-box]

I love how there's knitting patterns that walk you through each step line by line stitchy by individual stitch and then there's things like Selbu style mittens

Image ID: An edit of the "Draw the rest of the fucking owl" meme. The top caption reads, "How to knit a glove," and the first image where the initial foundational shapes of the owl would be has been replaced with a line from a pattern that reads, "Instructions: Alternating black and white, CO (cast on) 116 sts (stitches)." The caption underneath this reads, "1. Cast some stitches on." The second image shows an already completed Selbu mitten with multiple ornate motifs. The second instruction reads, "Knit the rest of the fucking glove." End ID"

[woolmaiden]

Working on the second mitten and I’m a little over halfway done! If you look closely at the finished mitten, you can see the warping from my stitches being too tight from short floats. A woman on YouTube gave the advice to turn the mitten inside out while knitting so that the floats have to travel farther thus making it harder to accidentally make them too tight. It’s been working like a charm. I will never go back to knitting color work right side out if I can help it. My poor mother is going to have one lopsided mitten and one good mitten.

[vintage-norway]

Lillehammer knit

One of the many Norwegian knitting patterns. This one is from Lillehammer and was made during the olympic games in 1994.

[maryslandkir]

[devidadesign]

"Embarking on a new shawl project with a simple yet captivating lace pattern. The colors are absolutely stunning, featuring mesmerizing shades of blue and earth tones. This is my very own design, crafted with love for my beloved daughter. The joy of creating something unique and meaningful knows no bounds!"😍💗💗

[cosmicrhetoric]

should i.......preemptively buy 40$ worth of yarn before a designer picks me for a test knit.......

[ub-sessed]

The test tube I made to learn how to use DPNs turned out to look like a sleeve:

I still find DPNs super awkward and I don't really know how to avoid ladders, but I'm ready to move on to making an actual leg warmer.

The most frustrating part was that for some reason I found it extremely difficult to do the Norwegian purl, which means I'm probably going to have to knit my ribbing English, which is less fun. Who knows, maybe it was the crappy hand-me-down yarn I was using and the Patons Decor will work better?