Denmark

As you might have known we were in Denmark this summer. We have rented a house at the Limfjord and spent two weeks there. In that time we've seen quite a lot and we also went for some geocaching. We have been to Norre Vorupor (at the North Sea), the island Fur, a flowerpark, Skive, a living history museum and an aqua zoo. The beach was really nice.

In Denmark we have found around 40 caches, which is a lot for us, but I must admit that we tried to find a lot more. Maybe we are not good at Danish caches or the caches in Denmark are really hard to find. But that wasn't in the caches we've found. Easy to find, some were not hidden or anything. :( That was really sad. They were placed in a ice cream box and you would have thought that there was trash laying in the bush.. :( We have found only traditional caches (we tried a Multi, but couldn't find it).. On the pic you can see me in front of the only Earthcache we've made.

And we have visited a medieval market that was only 3 km far from our house. It was on the Spottrup borg. That is one of the best medieval castles of Jylland. We visited the castle some days before, to have more time. But it was a really nice place for a medieval faire. It was like German faires, but they also had some interesting stalls like selling vegetables, cakes,.. And I also found some new things for my new hobbies like a weaving board for tablet weaving. It needs less space and I think it is also easy to built. I got a link to homepage for a Danish woman, where you can find the pics of thie weaving board: http://brikvaevning.dk/

It was a really nice holiday and I was a big sad when we drove back home. But here a lot of other things are waiting for me. ;) I'm wishing you still a nice summer.

My first braid

Today I tried to make my first selfmade braid. Well, it doesn't look really good, but it helped a lot to understand everything. At the end it got more and more better. I made the fault to take two different kind of wools, one was thinner than the other. :( Thats why you couldn't see the pattern very well. But Fynn still want this one for his medieval dress. ;) And I think I should take thinner wool.

The result

Tablets are ready

I've read the description about tablet weaving in the last hour. And now I cannot wait to start making my first braid. :) But I have to wait until tomorrow. If you want to read about it, here is the link:  Flinkhand - Brettchenweben But it is only written in German.

My first tablets

Here you can see my first tablets. They are made out of game cards. :) It was very easy and if you only want to try it first, it is a possibility to make it cheap. :) Have you ever tried weaving or tablet weaving? Or do you want to try it?