Author Archives: helene magnusson
Free knitting, free spirit !
My husband is in Iceland at the moment, at the Telemark Skying Festival in Akureyri. [...]
Mar
Remember the secret
Souvenirs et secret I was looking for a particular picture: one of an Icelandic sheep [...]
Mar
Retour d´Islande
You may want to go and visit Iceland with your family when you read this [...]
Feb
Olga
Le pull de Sylvía, tricoté par son arrière grand-mère islandaise, Olga, est devenu bien trop [...]
Feb
Merci !
Merci à vous toutes, enfin tous, il y avait quelques rares hommes, qui êtes passés [...]
Feb
Découverte Aiguille en fête
Plus qu´un jour avant le départ pour le salon de l´Aiguille en fête. Je dédicacerai [...]
Icelandic intarsia knitting: yarn management
Petite leçon: jacquard intarsia, dompter les fils As promised, here is a little tutorial on [...]
Feb
Lace dresses
Robes en dentelle de tricot Back home. A bit exhausted. Most memorable during this intensive [...]
Off to Iceland
En route pour l´Islande I´m going to Reykjavík after a few hours. I´ll be there [...]
Jan
Diamond Rose, Brooch or Button
Diamond Rose, Broche ou Bouton Do you remember my Winter brooches ? You can knit [...]
Jan
My worst nightmare
Mon pire cauchemar I found a moth, right in the middle on my stash: it´s [...]
Jan
Artic interview
Konur sem gera: Helene Magnusson Helene Magnusson er lögmaður með ástríðu fyrir prjóni og ótrúlega [...]
My Chrismas knitting
We had a wonderful time skying. It was a real vacation, with no computer or [...]
Jan
Shop update
New felted light, tea-rose inspired, very romantic… in my shop…Une nouvelle guirlande en feutre, rose-thé, [...]
Dec
Vente privée de Noël
Make your own custom made felted lights, have a little Laufabrauð and drink a Jólaglögg! [...]
Dec
Bazaar and Winter brooches
This week-end, I will be at the International Bazaar in Luxembourg, Exhibition and Congress Center, [...]
Nov
Rieux-Minervois en images
Finally pictures from the exhibition…the opening with dried fish, smoked lamb and trout smoked with [...]
Nov
Knitting words
Les mots tricotés We already knew La petite tricoteuse d´histoires(The little knitting teller), Poetry in [...]
Nov
Best knitting books
Meilleurs livres de tricot Best new knitting books What knitter can resist a gorgeous knitting [...]
Innlit Útlit
Don´t miss Innlit Útlit on Skjár 1 (a popular weekly TV show about Icelandic design) [...]
Skóleppar Scissors Keeper
The other day, I had a wonderful surprise when receiving a package from the post: [...]
Nov
Icelandic knitting -Tutorial: centre-pull ball on your thumb
Petite leçon: une pelote avec dévidage central “sur le pouce” This method doesn´t require [...]
Nov
Blanket
Cleaning my computer, I found pictures of the baby blanket from my book, that I [...]
Oct
Exposition et atelier
Bon ben voilà tout est dit. Rieux-Minervois se trouve entre Narbonne et Carcassonne, à 1 [...]
Oct
Moth alert, again !
The “moth” from previous post did it again: this time it was Rosa (or Violet, [...]
Oct
Moth alert (alerte aux mites) !
A big fat moth ?Une grosse mite ? Or a little monster !!!!Ou un petit [...]
Oct
Elles sont là !
Qui elles ? Mais les traductions françaises de mon livre, le fameux Tricot jacquard islandais [...]
Oct
Trico´13
Tricot´13 pour conjurer le mauvais sort? J´en suis ce mois d´octobre avec pour thème le [...]
Oct
Margot
Sylvía insisted that I knitted a girly outfit for her friend’ s birthday. Here it [...]
Oct
A piece of cake ?
A piece of tart ? Fun blog with crochet for playing. Un bout de tarte [...]
Oct
Help !
Can´t find my camera ! Mon appareil photo a disparu !
La couronne au pied du mur ?
The Icelandic crowns are back at the National Museum. There are only four now. I [...]
Sep
Very British
I can´t help but sharing with you those fascinating pages on knitting at the Victoria [...]
Sep
