Third Floor - Knitting Room

Here we are - the third and final floor. Well actually, after the knitting room is the sewing room but since it was being restored, the knitting room is the final room on the tour.

This is where all kinds of crazy machines, of varying shapes and sizes, turned the spun wool into webs of woven wonder. So exciting!

One thing that really surprised me was all the machines knitting in rounds. Of course up in the sewing room they would just cut the pieces and make whatever they wanted, but I was surprised that so much of it started in circles.

It was also amazing to see that each machine was knitting in different patterns. Some, such as this one, typically Norwegian in style.

The colours were especially lovely in the area where they knitted lots of small details and trims...so pretty!

The most astounding machine for me though, was the sock knitter. It knitted pairs end to end and spat them into a collecting tube. So funny! So clever! Seeing those socks just streaming into the tube, a new one every minute or so, really made me look industrialisation in the face. Kind of entrancing really...

So I hope you have enjoyed your tour of the Salhus knitting museum. The next post will be all about Christmas in Norway. Wishing everyone and their families a very Merry Festivus ;) Eat, drink, eat some more, drink some more, snooze in the afternoon and be merry! Loves of Love and Special Christmas Kisses...