After a rainy start up the hills, we drove down to sunny Alta (https://www.altamuseum.no/en/) to see some rock art.
Is this Norwegian rock art, no it‘s Swedish knitting by Anna Bauer. The knitting style called „chicken strikken“ originated in the 1970s in Denmark. The idea was to knit using your own imagination and to combine symbols and patterns into colourful garments. When Anna Bauer discovered chicken strikken, she loved it. “I think it’s time to set knitting free again! Embrace the unknown, let go of firm land and get out on the slippery ice!” Anna Bauer.
As a dedicated odd-socker Kim was delighted to read that Anna Bauer prefers odd mittens.
The real rock art was outside of course, spread along a beautiful fjord-side walk in a birch forest.
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The experts now think that the rocks near the sea were originally coated in a red layer of iron oxide like this and the figures chipped into the surface were light grey.
Great view out over the fjord.
It’s the end of May and here the trees are just coming into leaf. Lovely!
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Get a look at Alta’s church, not to mention the irreverent swinger!
On our way to Storslett, where we found a fantastic car park to spend the night in a forest next to the fjord.