Coming soonEmbun Poncho
Level: Beginner (1 of 3)
Airy, light and full of tiny sequins. Embun means morning dew in Indonesian. Knitted outdoors, with the rice field just behind. The pattern is coming soon.
Indonesia
From Norway to Indonesia, no job, just knitting 🤭
I quit my job in software development and moved here. So what am I doing? Apart from “finding myself” and living in a new culture 🙏✨ I knit, and I keep building this website. Oh, one more thing: I go to school to learn Indonesian. Ini mantap ya 🫰
Patterns
All garmentsComing soon
For saleSauevotter
Level: Advanced beginner (2 of 3)
Felted mittens with a sheep motif, from the years I lived on a farm with sheep in Norway. Two sizes, three colours, and a spin in the washing machine at the end.
NOK 49
On the needles
Free
Breathing room
Knitting is meditation with needles, an hour without your phone, which honestly is the whole point. The breathing room is the rest of the package: what I do myself to get my shoulders down. Something warm in a mug, a bit of breathing, a bit of listening to the body. No right answers, just what works for me.
Diary
The knitting came along
Strikkenomaden — the knitting nomad — was just a name that sounded fun. Then I moved from snow to heat, and it turned out to be true.
Drink
Electrolytes that cost pennies
Half a litre you mix yourself for next to nothing. With what the research actually says about the salt — including the part that is not on the packet.
Drink
Calming Cocoa
The evening cocoa I make when my head will not settle. Raw cacao, ashwagandha and reishi.
Drink
Chamomile before bed
The dullest tea in the cupboard, and the only one with randomised trials behind it on sleep. With a method that is a little more than pouring water on a bag.
Did you know
3,545 knitters answered an international survey in 2013. The more often they knitted, the calmer and happier they reported feeling — and those who knitted with others, most of all.
Unn Søiland designed the Marius pattern and started a company in 1953 that organised more than a thousand hand knitters. She became the first female member of the Norwegian Federation of Industries, and later knitted for Dior and Givenchy.
Source: Store norske leksikon
Annichen Sibbern Bøhn published Norske strikkemønstre in 1929, built from patterns she travelled around Norway to collect herself. She was the first to call them Norwegian. At fifteen she ski-jumped in Husebybakken.
Source: Store norske leksikon
The oldest known mittens are a Latvian pair from around the year 1000. Knitting itself only became common in the 1600s, because it was faster than nalbinding.
Source: Store norske leksikon
Marit Emstad (1841–1929) is considered the mother of Selbu knitting. She was the first to deliver mittens with the Selbu rose to Husfliden in Trondheim.
Source: Store norske leksikon
The Selbu craft centre opened in 1934. Within a few years more than 90,000 pairs of mittens passed through it, and two out of three pairs were exported.
Source: Store norske leksikon
The oldest true knitting in the Victoria and Albert Museum is a sock from North Africa, worked on two needles somewhere between 1100 and 1300.
Source: Victoria and Albert Museum
Wool can take up as much as 35 per cent of its own weight in moisture before it feels wet against the skin. That is why a mitten stays warm in sleet.
Source: The Woolmark Company
The story
How I ended up here
I quit a safe job in Oslo, packed far too much yarn and moved to Indonesia — with no plan at all. These are the photos from the year that followed.
Read the story
And yoga. And finding myself. And finding calm.
I left Norway with no job and far too much yarn in my suitcase. It has turned out to be a perfectly decent plan. Wool belongs in the cold, and I work with it under a palm tree. That contradiction is the whole thing.
It started as a small site where I put out whatever I am working on, because I enjoy it. The patterns here are my own designs, and the dream is to make a living from knitting one day. If you feel like knitting the same thing, they are right here.