Nåle! -- Needles!

     Uglemor har arvet en nålepude. Den er ikke så stor, kun 7,5 cm. på hver led. Den passer perfekt ned i et af rummene i skuffen i Uglemors syskrin.
     Piraten sad og pillede ved nålepuden og hev den mindste krumnål, Uglemor nogensinde har set, ud af den.
     Der var flere nåle i den, fandt Uglemor ud af, da nålepuden stak hende i fingeren. Vi tog en magnet og fandt ud af at den sad fast i puden flere steder, der var altså mere end én nål gemt indeni.
     Med en lille dåse til at trykke på nålepuden, en pincet til at hive nålene ud, når de stak ud gennem stoffet, og en magnet til at tjekke for flere skjulte nåle, hev Piraten og Uglemor et helt utroligt antal nåle ud af den lille nålepude. Minimax skulle også lige være med, så da Piraten og Uglemor troede de var færdige, fandt han en stor lædernål inden i nålepuden.
     Og så var der ikke flere. Prøv at gætte hvor mange nåle der var i den lille nålepude. Svaret står under billedet.

-- 📍 -- 

MotherOwl has inherited a pin cushion. It is not very big, only 7.5 times 7.5 cm. but it fits perfectly into one of the partitions in the sewing drawer.
The Pirate played with it and pulled out the tiniest curved needle I ever saw. We found out that there were more needles inside the pin cushion, as it stabbed my finger. We found out that a magned adhered solidly to the pin cushion almost everywhere, meaning more than one needle inside it. With the help of a small tin for squeezing the pin cushion, tweezers for pulling out the protruding needles and not least the magnet to check for more MotherOwl and The Pirate pulled out an ungodly number of needles from the small pin cushion.
When finally we were done, Minimax played with pin cushion and tools and pulled a really big leather needle from the pin cushion. Then there were no more needles.
Try and guess before scrolling down. How many needles were hidden inside the small pin cushion?

Nålepude, magnet, pincet og hele femogtyve nåle! -- Pin-cushion, magnet, tweezers and twenty-five needles!
Hvis de ikke er der alle sammen, er    --  If they're not there all of them, it's just
det fordi den store lædernål stadig er indeni.  --  because the big leather needle is still inside.   

Words for Wednesday -March 6 :: Time

Time ... I just could not continue Susan's story with this prompt. I wrote yesterday, but forgot to post. I autoposted back in time to make the reality fit my words.  

Time - the simultaneity of the different.

A part of the fun that is Words for Wednesday is the time when I get the prompts. When River or Elephant's Child are supplying them they are often up when it is still Tuesday afternoon here at my place. But when the prompts come from USA or Canada, it is sometimes Thursday morning here. And of course I think that my time is the right one, or almost the right one, after all I live only an hour east of Greenwich.

Right now, as I sit here and write, it is Wednesday all over.

The Writer just stood up from his work to make our before noon coffee, which we'll still drink inside, as Spring is not yet here. River and Elephant's Child in Australia are probably having their evening cuppa, enjoying the sunset in the Autumn breeze. Meanwhile in USA and Canada the new day has barely begun yet. I hope Delores, Mesymimi, and Cindy are still sound asleep, if not, they are very early risers. Not even WiseWebWoman has stirred yet I presume, as the sun has not yet cleared the horizon in Newfoundland either. I must say that I suspect Delores of autoposting the prompts, as they arrived a little past midnight her time - that is if I can do the maths.

Askeonsdag Gentagelse -- Ash Wednesday Repost

I dag er det askeonsdag.
I dag starter den store faste, der først ender til påske.
Der er tradition for at give afkald på noget i fasten. De forgangne år har Uglemor forsøgt at holde sig væk fra de elektroniske fristelser.
Det ender det nok også med i år, så hvis Uglemor ikke

• skriver noget nyt så tit, 
• ikke straks kommenterer på dit ellers vidunderlige indlæg, 
• ikke straks svarer på et e-brev, 

 så skyldes det fasten og ikke at Uglemor har glemt dig eller ikke synes at det du skrev var godt.

Today is Ash Wednesday.
Today the lenten time begins, to end in joy Easter morning.
In years gone by MotherOwl has abstained from electronical temptations, this is the most probable scenario this year as well
So be warned.
If MotherOwl does not

• post as often as usual, 
• comment on your great post as soon as it is posted - or soon thereafter.
• answer her mail in a jiffy

 It's all due to Lent, not because MotherOwl forgot you or you wrote something bad.

TUSAL -- 3

     Nu håber jeg at Daffycat snart lægger sin TUSAL post op. Jeg har ingen ender endnu, for det der neverkont-strik er ikke færdigt, enderne er ikke hæftede og derfor ikke klippet af endnu. 

-- 🌀 --

 I hope Daffycat will soon post her TUSAL post. I have no ORTs to boast of this month, as my entrelac knitting endeavour is still not finished, the ends are therefore not darned in and snipped off.

Det smitter -- Contamination

Når Uglemor nu fletter så meget, og så begynder at strikke, så sker der nogen gange ... Upsi! Hvad er nu det? Flettet strik, strikket flet eller hvad?

-- ? --

As MotherOwl was folding paper baubles and knitting at the same time this happened. Erm, is this braided knitting or basket woven knitting. What happened?

     Uglemor har længe haft lyst til at lære at strikke neverkont (entrelac). Nu skete det, og jeg har lyst til at prale lidt af min kunnen, opskriften fylder fire sider!
     Det er sjovt. Næste skridt bliver rundt og rundt, og så fra midten og ud. Hvad der kommer ud af det rent praktisk vil tiden vise.

-- 🏅 --

MotherOwl has long intended to learn how to knit entrelac, and now it happened. I hope this earns me some bragging rights. The pattern is four pages long!
It is fun, next steps are entrelac in the round and from the centre out. What practical use it will come to, only time will tell.