About Stockholm

Grocery Trip

A nice grocery (Rimi) was located a few blocks up the hill behind our hotel in Bergen. They had these nice grocery totes:


And, this nice beer.


Copenhagen is a "crisp refreshing beer brewed with all natural ingredients & cold filtered for purity". And, it's shelf-neighbor "Budweiser".

Visting Oleana

The BEST, best day!

Visiting my DREAM JOB of putting sleeves (or collars, in this case) on Oleana sweaters in the Oleana factory (video here) outside of Bergen, Norway!

There are big machines like this:

But I probably would be better suited to the smaller hand machines.

And, the beer sweater . . .

Sogn Fjord Bunad

During sjonaleister class, we had a little outing to Bergen Husfliden. In the window were several examples of men's and women's bunad dress. Our teacher, Hege-Theresa, gave us a "tour" and talked of the costumes to our class.

Of interest to me was the costume for Sogn Fjord, the larger region where my family emigrated from Norway through Canada to southern Wisconsin.














The small inverted "v's" and loops represent the mountains and water of the Sogn Fjordan region.
















And, there was more good food to look at and eat from Godt Brod baked goods store.

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.