7/28/13

...home.



Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
~Robert Montgomery

 
Well back from Norway- it has been and incredible experience- so good to be home in Montucky. Just the every day stuff. I so appreciate my life here in America. My horses, my dogs, the warm sunny days- just random things.
However my family is still in my heart and I think of then so very often.
When we came home I made "lapper" ( little pieces) a Norwegian style pancake that is served with sour cream and raspberry jam. I add cardamom- because it my most favorite spice in baked goods.
 
 
Auggie is devouring them here with a tall glass of ice cold milk.
We eat them for breakfast but they are served almost like "mid day tea" in England- at my uncles.
 
(I am in the process of "processing" my images from Norway and will be uploading them soon)


 
Many things opened up for me while away- how much I missed spinning. I had just bought a
Maja craft Aura- before my hands kicked the bucket. This beautiful spinning wheel all the way from the factory in New Zealand...and I barely used it. So...with that I am giving it a go again- trying something entirely new- change, remember...that is what I am about these days- I am plying yarn. Letting go of the days of art yarn too chunky for my hands to spin...but this, might work.
 
 
This is my lazy Kate- pretty clever?
Yep, laundry basket with my bobbins on long needles- it's not prefect but it works.
 


2 skeins...leftover roving from former days. These are okay...Rome wasn't built in one day- I'll get better.

 
...a scarf is in the making. Can't tell you have good it feels to make something from the beginning-
 and to be home.

Have you been traveling this summer....do tell?

15 comments :

  1. I do something very similar for plying. I use a metal piece from a loom and a holey storage box. It works so much better than the lazy kate (some wood with two metal sticks) that came with my wheel.

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    1. That is so smart- will try that, thanks for the tip.

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  2. What beautiful yarn! I'm not a spinner *yet!* but hand spun is beautiful no matter what! Lovely! Where in Norway are you from? I have a very close friend in Oslo!

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    1. I am from Oslo, but visiting my family in Geilo in Hardanger.

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  3. So wonderful to see you at the wheel!! I am trying to spin fat and you are spinning thin - think of you everytime I sit at the wheel. The Aura is so beautiful. When I spin with my spindle I use my "lazy crate" - a small milk crate with dowels through it. Love the "laundry kate"!! Your yarn is so beautiful.. So glad you had a wonderful trip home to Norway.

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  4. How lovely it must feel to spin again, and to be home.

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  5. hurray, i love to see you making wool, hoping your hands feel okay! beautiful photos camilla.

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  6. you sound so happy and I love that you're back. Sometimes getting away brings a new perspective. Glad you are back to creating and I hope you enjoy every single minute of home.

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  7. It is wonderful to hear you had such a lovely visit home. I am just back from Va. and trying to get settled back in to a norm.

    I am thrilled for you to be spinning again and such pretty yarn you are creating.
    I visited a yarn store that also sold spinning wheels. I am planning on visiting again in a few months since no one around here spins,and having a lesson. Spinning has been on my to learn list for too long!

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  8. lovely yarn there. spinning looks so meditative. i've always wanted to try it myself.

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  9. You know how much I have missed you and your blog. . .but the yarn, oh my goodness, it brought so much joy. I feel happier now that you are in this world again.
    xoxo Bobbie

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  10. I am so pleased to have found your new blog as I am a bit hopeless at keeping up in the blog world these days! Your spinning is lovely, I think that the finer yarns will be easier on your hands. I miss my wheels as I sold them (in haste and times of money need!) but I have been spindle spinning this summer.
    We are off to france and spain in our camper van next week but I will love to catch up with your blog when I get back. xx Linda xx

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    1. So good to hear from you Linda- I hope you have a wonderful time.
      xo

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