Christmas Dress Update & Norwegian Christmas Traditions // Norwegianknitter Knitting Podcast 023
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What I'm wearing:
Fern Sweater - Knitting for Olive
Patterns mentioned:
Fern Sweater - Knitting for Olive
Augustins No16 - Augustins.dk
Sophie Scarf - Petiteknit
Ankers Sweater - Petiteknit
Eva Cardigan - Petiteknit
Sunday Socks - Petiteknit
December Bow - Petiteknit
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I think it is good to knit for ourselves as well as knitting for others. I've been thinking, we should change "selfish" knitting to "self care" knitting.
True!
You are incredible!!! but please get a big rest after Christmas!! Wish you the best 😘
Thank you!! I'm planning on getting more rest after Christmas🥰
You are a superknitter getting a whole dress done so fast!! I end up knitting like crazy every Christmas but never a dress lol
I really like the sound of your Christmas, I like the leisurely vibe, too, lots of time for knitting and reading and puzzling or whatever... We also have Christmas on Christmas Eve in Switzerland, but now my family is grown up, it's just me and my husband with our dog and we have continued his family's tradition of a quiet evening with sparkling wine and "Schinkengipfeli", which are bacon-filled mini-croissants that are typically Swiss and very good. A lot of Swiss people eat cheese or meat fondue or have some other special meal with Christmas flair, maybe things in star shapes or more expensive meat cuts. As I am originally British, we have most of our family over on Christmas Day (my mom, brother-in-law, two of my daughters plus partners, grandchildren) for a big turkey dinner, English-style, that my husband enjoys making. It has a sage, onion, chestnut and apple mincemeat filling (stuffing), and we have adopted cranberry-orange relish, which is maybe more of an American thing, plus roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots, it's so tasty! As we don't enjoy Brussels sprouts, we leave those out ;). My son-in-law is making a delicious Christmas cake as dessert, which is a very fruit-heavy mature sort of cake. Now that my eldest daughter's family are older, they host a wider family Christmas on the 26th so we get to meet some of her in-laws and family, too, and she just serves simple little cheese pies and "Schinkengipfeli" as well as coffee and cake. I wish we had the rice-pudding tradition, I love it; my English grandmother used to make it quite a lot. Maybe I will adopt it in some way!!
Anyway, after all that, we will need some quiet days with turkey sandwiches to recover...
I'm looking forward to seeing your porcelain sweater - one day I'd like to make it but have other plans first.
Merry Christmas, Oline!
Thank you!! It was a bit of a crazy project, but I'm so happy with how it's turning out and that I'll have a dress for Christmas😅🥰
I love your Christmas traditions. It sounds like you're getting the best of both worlds and so much tasty food🥰
Merry Christmas🎄🎅
The Fern sweater is stunning, I might make it as a Christmas sweater next year!
In my family in France we have a big dinner on Christmas Eve but we open the presents on Christmas Day after breakfast and then we have a nice lunch and we play boardgames and go for a walk 😊
You should! It would be so amazing as a Christmas sweater!! Your Christmas sounds lovely! Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Merry Christmas to you too!
What about lutefisk? Oh, I did hear you say lutefisk. I grew up having meatballs and lutefisk, Herling, mashed potatoes, and many other dishes. When I was growing up, we could only buy some Norwegian foods during Christmas. Oh, do you have jello in Norway. We always had some variety of jello. It may have had vegetables in the jello or fruit. We also only had apples and oranges at Christmas time because we lived so far north in Minnesota. Shipping fresh fruit to rural areas was not easy. The 7 kinds of cookies plus fudge and a variety of homemade candiies as well as candies purchased. I’m 75, so grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. My grand parents and great grandparents immigrated from Norway in 1850’s - 1869. Also a set of Great, Great Grandparents from Sweden. I enjoy following your knitting journey. My grandmother started me knitting at about 5 years old. There were a lot of gap years. I have projects on my needles all of the time now. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
My grandma grew up with Lutefisk for Christmas! I'm not used to jello for Christmas, but my grandma makes Aspic/Kabaret, but that's more of a summer thing. How cool that your grandparents and great grand parents came from Norway! My grandma started me knitting when I was 5, too! Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Your Christmas dress is absolutely stunning! Cannot wait to see a picture of you wearing it. Beautiful work. Merry Christmas to you and your little family.
Thank you so much!! Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Hej Oline 😊
Ønsker dig og din familie en super god jul 🎄 Glæder mig til at se dig i din smukke kjole ❤️❤️❤️
Kh Berit 🇩🇰🎄🎄🎄
Hei Berit!
Tusen takk, og God Jul til deg og dine🎄🎅
You are incredible and determined i must say, stunning Christmas dress, your sweater is also very classy.
Christmas tradition for us was December 24th, we went to Children Mass, while the parents put up the tree, with real candles, Shocking I know, never burned down the house, lol, the ornaments were purple hand-blown glass post WW2 and real tensile, that got ironed and put away in a newspaper after the tree came down, holy 3 kings January 6th. while eating a small dinner usually hot wieners and potato salad, we would hear the silver bell ring, which meant the Christkind came( Nikolaus came December the 6th and brought candy ,nuts, apples,oranges , if you were a good girl, ) we all went to the living room to be amazed at the tree and the gifts, and then my parents would pray the Christmas prayer, and then we opened up our gifts, no ripping the paper, that was collected and reused the following year, my parents then went to midnight mass, while us kids went to bed, December 25th and 26th are to this day still Christmas holiday for when families like aunts and uncles come for dinner or coffee, this year I am keeping an empty chair at my table so my mom who is in heaven now has a place to sit with us, Merry Christmas everyone,
Thank you! Your Christmas sounds magical! I'm also used to putting the tree up quite "late" as people would say now, and leaving it up until January, but we take it down the 13th of January! I've also grown up carefully packing up presents to reuse the paper for next year! I'm sorry to hear about your mother❤️
@@norwegianknitter thank you 🙏. And thank you for sharing your Christmas with us. Can’t wait to see your finished Christmas dress. Hope Santa brings you lots of yarn 🧶 lol
Merry Christmas - God Jul - Oline and a happy New Year. Thank you very much for all the inspiring podcasts in 2023. It has been a pleasure to follow you. See you in 2024.
Merry Christmas - God Jul! Happy New Year - Godt Nytt År! Thank you so much🫶🏻❤️
What a good job you are doing with your dress, you amaze me 👏 ❤
Thank you❤️ Merry Christmas🎄🎅
@@norwegianknitter and merry Christmas to you too, you’ll have to let us know who finds the Almond in the porridge 🥣
It is really a good idea to slow down and enjoy the knitting itself. Sometimes we just need it to stop ourselves and mind the things we are doing. I am so happy that the red dress is finished ❤💪 I am looking forward to the next year and your knitting with more colours 🤩 Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2024 🎄🎇🎍
Yes, I'm going to be practicing being more mindful in my knitting moving forward!
I'm so happy the red dress is finished too, and that it turned out exactly how I had hoped!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year🎄🎅
@@norwegianknitter thank you ❤
Happy christmas! Amazed you finished the dress in time :D
Happy Christmas! I'm a bit amazed myself, had my doubts😅🥰
❤❤❤ what a dress, amazing. And inspiring 😍😍, it gives me some ideas... Bravo !!! 💪💪🧶🧶🧶😍
Thank you❤️❤️
Love your dress! Over here in the US, our immediate family gets together on the 24 for dinner and gift exchange and then on the 25, our larger extended family with all the grands, aunts/uncles/, kids, grand kids go to my niece's house for dinner (turkey/ham) all the trimmings and dessert. My favorite day is the day after Christmas because it is a pajama day! I love the quiet between Christmas ad New Years. It feels like the whole world slows down. I hope you get lots of rest this coming week! Happy holidays to you and your family.
Thank you!! And thanks for sharing your traditions! Pajama Day after Christmas is the best, I think everyone needs a day to unwind after the build-up for Christmas😅 The whole world slowing down between Christmas and New Years is the best, I'm going to try to bring that energy with me into 2024!
Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Merry Christmas!!! Love to you and your Family!❤
Merry Christmas! Love to you and your family too!
your dress looks amazing! i have been wanting to knit an augustins pattern since i started knitting but would rather improve my skills for right now. growing up, my favorite christmas tradition was picking out a few presents from home to take to grandma’s, and having dinner and dessert with extended family and opening presents with them. i was a shy kid so i might not have fully enjoyed it then but i look back on those memories fondly. my grandma passed in 2012 but i still have a few of her “ugly” christmas sweaters 🤍
Thank you!! You should go for it, her patterns are very well written! And she has different difficulties, the one I'm making is only stockinette in the round, with increases at the waist and picking up stitches for the sleeves!
What a lovely tradition! Sorry to hear about your grandma❤️
My dad is from Denmark and we do rice pudding with the almond on Christmas Eve!!
Cool! Do you hide an almond in it as well?
thank you for sharing all the traditions you and your family celebrate! when i was a kid, we lived in germany and i very much remember getting marzipan pigs during the holidays - i looked it up online to understand the meaning - interesting, and such a charming metaphor. also interesting to learn that your people go to church on Christmas, religiously!, but are still considered secular. here in the states its also really variable as to how people celebrate, though i think having a Christmas tree and presents is probably the big one. (sigh). i like the Christmas lights - sometimes whole neighborhoods dress their houses in lights and various Christmas displays, either religious or secular - but lights being the focus. thanks for all your stories and knitting - wishing you knitting goodness and more in 2024
Thank you for sharing too! Christmas lights are great, I love how they light up the darkest time of year❤️
Merry Christmas… do you have a link for the balaclava pattern? Or the name so I can try to find it please
MinMote-Balaklava🥰
www.minmote.no/strikk/a/5GO36O/strikkeoppskrift-minmote-balaklavaen
The dress is beautiful! I’m glad to hear you are going to slow your knitting. If you’re burnt out from making so much, your body needs a rest.
Your sweater is gorgeous! Living in Florida I do envy your mohair! 😂❤
Thank you! I look forward to (try to) slow down my knitting and to knit without a deadline!
One of the best things about living in a cold climate is that I can wear as much mohair, wool, and alpaca as I want to🤩❤️ Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Your dress is going to be beautiful, great work 🥰 God Jul to you and your family, wish you very nice relaxing time!😊( but honestly can not remember what it is doing nothing since having kids😅)
Thank you! God Jul to you too🎅🎄 I just think having a relaxing time changed meaning after I had my son😅
I love that Fern Sweater and your red dress is already looking stunning, I can't believe how well you have done! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!!
Your dress looks lovely!! I do hope you get your brother's socks done for Christmas. Merry Christmas!!❤
Thank you🥰 I'm unfortunately not going to be able to make the socks in time for Christmas! But I'm hoping to get through a fair bit of the gift knits before the new year! Merry Christmas🎅🎄
While watching your podcast, I am working on the collar of my Fern Sweater - and wondering if it isn't too tight. 😅 Thanks for sharing your thoughts about it. It is such a beautiful pattern, I cannot wait for the yoke to start.
Your dress is already stunning, you have done a great job and I hope you will enjoy wearing it for the festive days together with the bow. Merry Christmas❤
Haha, what a funny coincidence!! Let me know if you figure out something clever to help with the tighg collar! Thank you! I just weaved in the last loose end, so the Christmas dress is done, just in time!! Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Hi Oline, I never doubted that you would finish that dress and it will look so beautiful on you with that red bow! But I hope that after Christmas you will have more time to relax and sleep without worrying about a firm deadline for projects, and then I’m sure that your knitting motivation and joy will return. Thank you for sharing your family’s Christmas traditions. For many years now all of the adults in my family have put their names into a name drawing, and we each draw a name and then buy a gift for that person only. We also set a money limit as to how much we will spend for each gift. We get together on Christmas Eve and exchange gifts (we do still get gifts for all the children in the family). We eat different foods from year to year but my own tradition is to bake pumpkin spice cookies with a maple frosting, and everyone loves them. I baked about 5 dozen today! Have a wonderful Christmas with your family, Oline, and as always I will look forward to your next podcast.
Merry Christmas!! Thank you🥰 and thanks for telling me about your traditions!
The Fern sweater you are wearing is beautiful. Thats on my list to knit. Im thinking of buying the Knitting for olive book which has that sweater in it but there are many in patterns in there that I like as well. Tha Christmas dress looks stunning on you and its not finished yet, but I'm sure you will finish it very soon. I'm still thinking of the porcelain sweater but I need to finish my sons birthday sweater ( his birthday was on Dec 11th). Im Knitting the Fjordflolk sweater with sewn sleeves by Linka Neumann. It is taking longer to knit it than i figured but it will be finished. I love you sharing your Christmas traditions. We celebrate on the 25th but we have celebrated on Christmas eve depending when it works for other family members to get together. Merry Christmas🎉🎉
The Fern sweater is such a fun knit! I almost want to make another one! Good luck with your son's birthday sweater!! He's so lucky to have you knitting for him🥰 Merry Christmas🎄🎅
Polska wesołych świąt Ela ❤😂
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Actually I think most non Anglo-Saxon/english speaking start Christmas on the evening/night of the 24th. At least in Europe.
What's the deal/tradition with elves and trolls and moose 🫎 though? And who brings the presents in your family? Santa/father Christmas or the christ-child, or.... would love to hear more about it. Lots of love and Christmas blessings from Germany!
Merry Christmas!! Ahh, thanks for letting me know! I don't know of trolls/elves and moose directly having anything to do with Christmas in Norway. But Trolls/Elves are a pretty big part of old school superstition/fairytales here. I've never heard of moose having anything to do with Christmas, but it's easier to spot them out and about in wintertime, at least where I live! In my family we have Santa bring some presents and hand them over to the kids. Hope you have a lovely Christmas!!
@@norwegianknitter thank you! And do you have anything for Nikolaus, December 5/ 6th?
@@j.3069 No, we have 4 Sundays of Advent, and Lucia the 13th of December, and Christmas of course. But nothing the 5th/6th of December.
@norwegianknitter and a round circle of green branches and 4 candles also? I think so, no? Moose and rendeer seem to be a lot in Scandinavian Christmas decorations, here we have more angels (which I don't like) . Especially in Bavaria, where I'm originally from. Lots of superstition belief there also, that predates Catholic stuff.
Yes, 4 candles for the 4 Sundays of Advent! When I think about it, we do have quite a lot of reindeer decorations. I have no idea why, haha.
God Jul til deg og din familie ♥ Viktig at du ikke stresser med strikkingen, jeg syns i hvert fall at det er like moro å se fremgang som ferdige prosjekter. Gleder meg til å følge deg videre inn i året 2024. Du strikker så å si alt jeg vil strikke ;) NB! du er veldig fin i Bregne genseren ♥
God Jul! Litt av problemet mitt er at det er så gøy å se fremgang at jeg aldri vil legge fra meg strikkinga eller sove😅 tusen takk❤️
Do you guys put the almond in the risengrød? In Denmark we put it in the dessert Risalamande (cold risengrød with whipped cream, vanilla and chopped almonds)
Yes, we put it in the risengrynsgrøt! Sounds like the danish version is more of a dessert?
@@norwegianknitterYes definitely a dessert, funny how the tradition is the same, but the details are not. God Jul.
@bestofemse Yes! That's why I love to hear how others do it! A lot is so similar, but the details make it something entirely different🥰 Merry Christmas🎄🎅
I never realized most of Norway is secular. Is your family?
A bit of both, actually! One side of the family goes to church mostly because of tradition, and the other is believing Christians.
@@norwegianknitter well Merry Christmas and thank you for your inspiration this year!
Merry Christmas!!
Whats the name of the balaklava??
MinMote Balaklava🥰
www.minmote.no/strikk/a/5GO36O/strikkeoppskrift-minmote-balaklavaen
I wish it was in English as its really lovely.
@@samanthaschlegel1863 you could try using Google translate? That might work