A blanket for a baby-boy

More than a year ago I visited Oslo. When I was there I bought some nice, expencive yarn from the store Nøstebarn. I was going to knit a baby blanket for my friend I thought. I wanted to give her something Norwegian and something of good quality. At that time I had no idea it would take so much time. I had to give up, the baby was born long before I even had a good start with the blanket. That was in May last year. Then another friend was going to have a baby in October. I was happy so to hear it was a boy, since the yarn was blue. I worked a little bit more on the blanket, and thought I would at least be done before October. Again I was wrong. I am not very good at knitting... I then got tired of the hole project, and gave up for a while. Now I have started once again, hoping to be done before we get our own baby-boy...

Updates :-)

This is how our stairs look right now. Not entirely finished, but very soon :-)

Our stairs

After a long, hard winter, the stairs outside our house looked like this:

Pretty boring.

My family visited us a month ago, and my dad spend a lot of time breaking it down together with Steen. Thank you dad!

I didnt know it was going to be that much work... And it has been even more work to rebuild it. Steen has been using most of his free time to work at it. And his good friends Poul-Erik and Hans-Jørgen has helped a lot! Thank you :-)

These pictures are mostly for my dad - he wanted to see how everything turned out. If he could choose, I am sure he would have stayed for another week, to help rebuild it, but my grandfather in Sweden was also waiting for them to come, so they better leave for some more vacationes (and work) in Sweden.

This is the foundation for the stairs, looking down on it from the front door.


Again the view of looking down on the stairs from the front door, now the outer walls have been build, and iron bars have been placed between the walls to add strength and stability.