More on the (Sjonaleistar) Beautiful Socks

The inside of the sjonaleistar sock cuff looks like this:














And, knitting the sjonaleistar on size 0000 needles looks like this:














The street on the way to class in Bergen was a "textile street" with these welcoming little flags:

SJONALEISTAR

In Bergen, I attended a course to make this sock:

The sock, SJONALEISTAR (means "beautiful sock"), is a traditional Norwegian knit sock using a twined knitting technique for the cuff, and top. The twining results in the knits and purls looking like a rich braid and makes a dense, unyielding cuff fabric.

The socks were traditionally worn for special occasions (i.e., weddings, feasts and funerals). I particularly
enjoyed the "feasts" as each morning in the hotel, we have breakfast--a feast.

We ate at Wayne's Coffee (Sweden's Starbuck's) with our friend in Uppsala. This is my meal. Pasta with tomato sauce, yummy side of fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cucumbers with some dressing and cheese. Under the pasta is a huge serving of cream cheese and feta. The bread was dark, moist and had more cream cheese/feta to spread on it!














And, then flew to Bergen, Norway.














And, Flybussed to the city.

Yarn Shop

My favorite yarn shop in Sweden is Yll o Tyll.

They have yarn:














A nice place for My Husband to sit:














And, a nice door stop:

Sweden Candy

I love this about Sweden!

Barista

When traveling to Uppsala, I have one cafe destination in mind. Until I eat at Barista, I do not feel like I have arrived! We got a small sandwich to go . . . all very ecological (wooden silverwares) and recycled paper goods.

I asked the young girl about the bulgar salad. She gave me the information on the note for making it. Gurkmeja is tumeric. The salad is bulgar, red onion, cucumber, chick peas, etc. with some arugula.

Mmmmm.

Uppsala, SE

We left Gavle early on a Saturday morning to visit Uppsala. Upon check-in at our hotel, we quickly made our way here, to the loppis:

and bought this (and more!):


The striped shirt is a hand-made work-style shirt that fits perfectly. It had a funky smell, but that is gone with the washing. In the background, a woven house-rug and the brown-brown is a skirt.