Ep. 4 Sit and Knit for a Bit on a Sunday with ARNE & CARLOS 

Carlos 😂 omg!! "Post traumatic 🐭 disorder" Such a funny and entertaining story, guys 😂 thanks so much for sharing 🩵 And thanks again for running the fun contest--- we are all winners just by watching your Advent episodes, knitting along and enjoying your sweet company ❤ Happy and Healthy 2024!

I think the mouse story deserves to be a children's book. The New Year's Visitor

I pictured Carlos chasing the mouse and it was so hilarious! :D It was so funny to see Arne laughing about Carlo's fear of the mouse! Hahah!

OMG!!! I've been watching your videos for years and have been enjoying your company for so long! I feel like your channel is a natural part of my life! I watch all your videos and they always, always bring joy, happiness, cheer and inspiration into my daily life. And now I won your competition! I am so grateful for this and for everything you do! Thank you! Thank you, Arne & Carlos! 🤩❤🥳

The mouse story was so funny. I would be as determined as you Carlos at getting it out of the house and not resting until I did! Congratulations to the winners of the contest.

Oh please. I would love to do another stocking!!!!

Who can't find something helpful, interesting, enlightening or new by listening in to SAKFAB?! If I knitted during SAKFAB, I would have a perpetual UFO as you fellows are so engaging. Off to a great new year...thank you! 😊😊

OMG! I can't believe it - how exciting!! Thank you so much!!

A few years ago I made 78 doll dresses in one winter. I still have all of them, my Granddaughter had outgrown dolls by then.

The saga of the Mouse"s Visit to the Lake House is hysterical! Great giggle to start the year! Thanks!

It was Mercury retrograde over the holidays which explains the ski trip, the highway, the broken cups, and the mouse! All the best for 2024 🎉😍

0C sounds tropical at the moment since in Northern Alberta we have had -40C to -45C for the last week. It warmed up to -16C during the day today. We had a wonderfully long autumn with a brown Christmas, which is very unusual but we got hammered in January. We do have black bears and grizzly bears in our region but the polar bears are in Northern Manitoba, Nunavut, and the North West Territories. We definitely enjoy knitting and knitted garments are definitely appreciated. Keep warm and knit on!

Happy New Year! 🎉 ❤to sit and knit and listen to your shenanigans! 😊 the stocking was so much fun! 🤩 Thank you, Arne and Carlos!

i would be screaming too with a mouse. me and rodents don't mesh. i wanted to say, the stocking pattern was prize in itself. thank you both for hosting the knit along advent stocking. Congratulations winners.

Happy new year 2024! I just loved the MKAL. My daughter fell in love with the stocking. It ended up as one of her favorite presents. I did end up with a loose gauge and the stocking was pretty big……but more room for many gifts!

OMG the mouse story had me rolling! Arne giggling at Carlos fretting over that tiny mouse was too much. Congratulations to the contest winners.

It was -20c when i woke up this morning and it went up a bit, -15c when i went for my morning walk. I am in Ontario Canada and this is normal temperature. I remember many years ago, march 8th, we had a big snowstorm similar to yours and many were stuck in their cars for many hours. I dropped my daughter to work just before it started snowing. A mere 15 minutes away from home. It started snowing on my way back and an hour later, i wanted to go back and pick her up because it was getting worse. But she phoned and said there was no way i could go because the roads were already closed. Luckily she slept at a friend’s home which was close to the little grocery store where she worked. -10/-15c is perfect weather to go skiing or snowshoeing 😊

Arne! Been watching old videos and you were talking about Jo Nesbo. I'm getting ready to start book 1 the bat. 😊 you and Carlos are so fun to watch! ❤

Yes, the video will be great! I loved doing the stocking and finished it. I was at my daughter’s house for the Christmas season and knitting away. She hinted that her 5 children’s stockings are worn out. So the stocking went to the youngest. My plan is to knit each a new stocking of your design. I intend to join whatever the knitalong is next December. I started really late due to other knitting priorities; I didn’t start until Dec. 12 and finished it by Christmas Eve. Thank you for everything you do!

Once, at work, a tiny mouse ran into the bathroom in the school's health room. I went in after it (the bottom of the door was sealed with a towel ) to catch. I squealed when it climbed up my leg😅, but eventually caught it. Your story brings this memory back to me.

I moved to Karlskrona in January 1987. We had a snowstorm and -25°C. That was cold in a coastal town. Then we didn't have snow for seven years. Not even in Gävle where I moved to 1989. My Spanish Waterdog Elmer loves the snow here now. Love Eileen

I am with you Carlos, even thought the mouse is so small I have an extreme reaction to them. It was a good laugh. I am almost finished the heel of pair if socks while you entertain me❤

So enjoyed making the Christmas sock, and yes it was so doable and enjoyable to make. Not being a fast knitter though I loved making the Christmas baubles and tiny jumpers, the Stocking was really achievable in your time scale :-)

Happy New Year! Thank you for your funny stories and and for inspiring projects on this -35C Sunday in Canada. My grandchildren are now keen to start making clothes for Barbie and learning how to knit as a result of my 'cleaning' yarn to make them little accessories for toys and a hat from my yarn leftover stash for Christmas!

We have our coldest weather now here in southern Minnesota. Our Christmas was above freezing this year. We have wind chills of -31 Celsius right now. Brrrrrrr. Your mouse story made me smile.

Arne, I really can relate to you! The pandemic took the wind from my sails and I lost interest in my hobbies. I too can go a year without seeing the top of my desk!

Happy New Year! The mouse story had me laughing so much I dropped a few stitches on my sock knitting😅. And my Christmas stocking is staying up all year. I just love it. Thank you so much for all the joy you have brought me throughout the years. Peace and love!

Living in the country, near a forest or at the lake means sharing the environment with all kinds of little creatures! Mice can fit through the tiniest hole to find their way in. Carlos, I’m like you, I can imagine them everywhere once even only one has presented himself. At the same time, Arne, once one is caught and let go, I worry about how it is surviving. What a conundrum! Happy New Year. Starting the year with an adventure suggests there is promise ahead.

Arne you crack me up! 😂😂😂. Your not the loser! So much laughter when I watch your content. Never a dull moment with Carlos!

Loved the story of the Mouse Debacle! With multiple cats, we rarely have a mouse debacle - but when we do, we always work hard to catch the mouse and free it outside before the cats can "help."

Just before leaving UK for winter in Nov 23, we had a visitor scrabbling about at night. Didn't trouble me, but hubby not so happy. We had the specialist visit, unable to find. So we used sonic pest deterrents. Worked. So hopefully when we return end of Jan 24, we don't have the same. Thanks for the chit chat.

Your butterfly on the wall is pretty 🦋 I found one on my porch while cleaning up last fall, it was black and yellow. I carefully picked it up an placed it on a shelf with some of my decorative tea cups! ☺️ The dress is beautiful, all of those lovely doll clothes need a wardrobe and a matching luggage and garment bag set! 👗Oh my the mouse story is fun, lol, i used to have pet rats, but don't want any wild mice running around! Congratulations to the winners!🎊 Thank you Arne and Carlos for the knit along and the generous giveaway!!💖

Love love that tablecloth, very vintage looking as well. The little dress looks so pretty with the pink beads! The quilting cruise will be interesting, which i was going. Thanks for the great video. 😊. Carlos, that laugh when Arne was talking about his desk, so cute.

My Norwegian grandmother grew up in Hamar. I have never visited there, though. She raised her family in Western Washington State in the USA and returned home to visit only twice.

It’s minus 13C here in eastern province of Quebec, Canada and we have a lot of snow. Perfect for knitwear. I’m wearing wool socks all winter long and there’s a country skiing path just behind my house.

I found your mouse story very interesting and decided to look up the meaning of mouse as a totem or spirit animal, here's what I found "Meaning of mouse in the house is about letting go of the details. It may even be as literal as stopping your obsession over cleanliness and organization. Instead pause to appreciate the beautiful home and life you have. Start a list of things that you are grateful for." Hope you get something out of that. Happy New Year to you.

Oh my gosh! I laughed so hard about the mouse story! I love it that you put your camera in the bathroom to see what she was doing. If you haven’t seen it, watch the movie Mouse Hunt. It is a very funny movie with an extremely smart mouse causing trouble!

Love the mouse story!!! I enjoyed making the stocking, learned some new techniques. Would love to see your new kitchen.

Happy New Year! I think it will be a fabulous 2024! I live in Oregon USA. Yesterday we had freezing rain all day long. Trees are down everywhere, power lines are down. 130,000 people in Portland are without electricity. That doesn't include surrounding areas. I don't know what 'snow' is like because it's always ice, not snow, and incredibly dangerous road conditions. I would love to experience snow sometime. Snow you watch coming down from your window and you know you'll be able to walk in and play in just outside your door. Staying home can be a great option, and I totally love it if there's power. I'm lucky to have have power, several of my relatives and friends do not. Hooray to the winners of your contests! Good Job! Happy New Year again!

I loved to hear your story about the mouse I kept thinking of Tom & Jerry a cartoon when I was little You made me laugh so much. I love your videos you are very interesting and have so much to share with everyone. Many thanks and a very happy MOUSE FREE new year 😂😂❤

Hahaha the trouble with mouse in the house! To much work darn mice! Remembering the movie Mouse Hunt! Glad your mouse free! Love your table cloth!

Hooray, you're back. I am about to start the second sleeve of a stranded colourwork seamless sweater I started on Cristmas Day, once the stocking was completed. By the time the next SAKFAB is on, hopefully I'll be on my next project. As for your Mouse Tale/Tail. Having been brought up in the wilds of Scotland, I know how that goes! Through your retelling of this adventure, can tell which of you is the old school country boy and who is more of a townie! I did laugh though. I loved the advent knit along so much.... please please please please please please please please please do another one. It was the most fun I have had once every advent evening in December since about 1968. We always opened our advent doors before we went to bed. We have been very lucky here on Merseyside; the Northern lights have been visible as far south as us!! By the way Arne, there has been a wonderful show on the BBC recently called Wild Scandinavia. The photography was stunning. I hope you get a chance to see it. So lush to have you back on our Voodoo Tube screens!

Hi guys happy new year to you both it was great to see you loved the crochet cloth that is what I do so I know the work that goes into that the doll dress are beautiful ok thanks for telling us about your things you do take care ❤

I just love sitting here with my headphones on, crocheting while I listen to you both! I wouldn't miss sitting & knitting for a bit with my favorite youtubers! Thank you from Australia 🦘🦘

Loved your adventures. We will be seeing you in February, looking forward to it!

Happy New Year fellow Norwegians! I don't think you have peanut butter but that's a great food to put in a mousetrap! But you got the critter and now you can spend more time on your beautiful creations.

SAKFAB is my favorit, thank you for sharing your Stories 😊

Thank you so much for every little thing.....I love everything you do =)

Hope you had a nice trip. I did enjoy the stocking days. ❤

This is my first sit and knit…and I got a lot done on the border of my Shetland shawl. Great to listen to you two the whole time. Thank you for the SANFAB. ☺💕💕

Happy 2024 and welcome home from Sweden. I hope you had a grand visit with your parents for the holiday. I wouldn't change a thing about SAKFAB. I adore both of you like you w Are my family

I wish to do a wintersleep and wake up in springtime…! Even in the Netherlands, the winter is not so cold as there by you..!

Happy New Year dear Arne and Carlos. It’s sooo good to see you and listen to all your shenanigans. Eeewww , I’m with Carlos about how mice gross me out. When I was newly married, my husband and I lived on a small farm. One night, it was a very cold winter’s night, I woke up and said to my husband, stop touching my toe. He said I am not. I threw the doona back, and there was a mouse in the bed. I screamed non stop for a long while. I still have mouse ptsd. Anyway that’s my yukky mouse story, and like you Carlos, I would have checked the bed. Arne, you said another ‘Arne-ism’, that is a tshirt worthy slogan, ‘I’m soooo over it!’ 😂 I think I have said that at least a couple of times already this year 😉 Wishing you both a fabulous 2024. Big hugs from Australia ❤

Arne the crochet filet fabric is just beautiful. Hours of work I would guess.

Happy New Year Arne & Carlos! Thank you so much for the Christmas stocking knit-a-long. It got me back into knitting. Seeing how quick Arne knits with the Norwegian method I decided to see if I could learn to knit that way as well. So now at nearly 78 years young I am knitting a pair of socks for myself using the Norwegian method of knitting. So far so good! Thanks for the videos showing the Norwegian Knit and Purl. They were so helpful! Thanks again,

Cheers to 2024- I hope it is a Happy, Healthy, and Rewarding year for you! I am in Chicago where it is presently minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of minus 30. It is sunny at least and I am about to go for a walk as it will get much colder soon. I embrace your Scandinavian motto “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.”!

So good to see you both again and congratulations to both of you the winners🎉🎉🎉🎉

Would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall when you were trying to capture the mouse! Never a dull moment in your life.

You two are the best!!!

Lovely to see you back guys. I sympathise with the mouse issue. We've had mice in the past, despite having 2 cats. My husband won't go near them so I have to do the necessary. All the best for 2024 xxx

Yes, please do another stocking for xmas this year xx❤

Happy New year!! It’s -27 feels like -31 Celsius in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada today.

Sooo glad to start a new year hearing about your antics.

Thank you for continuing to do SAKB in 2024. Sorry about the mouse 🤣

I missed you guys... even though I saw all your advent videos.. enjoyed your mouse odessy on new years day....

Would love a new knit along for Christmas this year.

Happy New Year to you two.😊 Do you happen to like MacKenzie-Childs teapots etc? Arne, I love to crochet doilies and tablecloths too. Yours is beautiful ❤️.

Loved this chit chat guys. Brilliant - thank you.

Lovely episode. So nice to hear about the latest shenanigans, particularly the New Year's day🐁🐁🐁 I loved the Christmas KAL and would love to do this every year. The competition was very fun. Congratulations to the lucky winners. We finally have snow in Upstate NY. Good knitting weather. I just completed my first sweater of 2024. Goal is one sweater each month. We'll see how it goes. XOXO

Ooo I would love to read the new Edvard Munch book. Thanks for the suggestion. I am currently half way through "Kristine Lavransdatter" ( I am sure you know the book). However, I am now laughing out loud at the mouse capers SOOOO funny!! p.s. Arne, your crochet work is absolutely beautiful. p.s.s. congrats to the lucky winners!

Happy New Year, guys. The mouse story is hilarious! I understand the anxiety they can create. They just need to live outside. The crocheted table cloth is beautiful.

It's the same here in Canada...everyone think snow and polar bears!...but here in Vancouver (west coast) we usually only have snow for a couple day's...and the whole city shuts down! We do have polar bears in the province of Manitoba..and more snow in the rest of Canada

always interesting!

Love the mouse story - I had a similar experience and was amazed at its ingenuity in hiding. I was convinced it was laughing at me. Also I completed the Christmas stocking KAL and six rows a day was such fun - I would never have made one in time without this idea. So yes, I’d love to do something similar again.

Never had a day off school due to snow in Norway. My first day off school due to snow was when I went to school in Colorado aged 18.

Happy New Year! from Canada ❤ the mouse story 😅😅..reminds me of me leaving a door open in summer and a squirrel ran into the house but he made it only to under our potatoes bin, I screamed, and it rushed outside😅😅 just enjoying my skolleboller I baked yesterday, and espresso listening to your stories and while knitting a hat!

Congratulations to the winners, and Happy New Year everyone! My husband is really afraid of rats, and we recently had rats in the garage, so he wouldn't go in and was frantic to find an exterminator. I think they're cute and intelligent, so we got a place that does rat-proofing and live removal, and evicted them. Some of them accidentally got a free ride to the city dump when we got rid of the boxes they had chewed into -- I have to think it's a rat's paradise there. Anyway, they're all gone now, but he reacted pretty much the way Carlos did. :)

Words cannot express how much you both warm my heart!!

Once again, a great episode. The mouse story had me laughing really hard. And it is the way you tell it. In MN we have lots of snow equipment, but because it is typically much colder than where you are (today the high is -1F -18 C), we do carry a shovel and warm blankets. My mom used to drive about 30 miles each way to work so she always had chocolate in her car. As kids we knew we could NOT sneak that chocolate. It HAD to be available if my mom did get stuck. Fortunately, she rarely needed it.

Yeay~ Another year of Arne and Carlos! I'm so happy you guys are back 😃💕

This past New Year will be one you will remember for a very long time. What a way to start a new year - - with a Mouse Hunt..... that was a very fun story with great images going through my mind.....

I love seeing and hearing from you both. You make my day!

Arne and Carlos, you should watch the movie "Mouse Hunt". Sending warm hugs from Indiana, USA.

I couldn’t watch this on the day you posted because I was buried under a huge pile of snow! In western Michigan we get system snow and lake effect snow when the wind comes in off Lake Michigan. Lots of shoveling helps keep me in shape! Now it’s really cold, which is unusual here, but very normal where I grew up, in northern New York near the border with Canada. Speaking of Canada, I just discovered a shop in Toronto that carries Hillesvåg Sølje, Vilje, Tinde, and Sol that is not too far off the route I take when I go to visit family in New York. So while I’m disappointed that I didn’t win the competition, at least I know where I can go to get more of the Norwegian yarn that I love.

Happy New Year and yes, I ordered one of your books and so exited to do the flower blanket!😍🤩🥰

If you do a knit along for Christmas next year, please think of us in New Zealand,I had to finish the stocking on Christmas day and couldn't put it on display on Christmas eve .

Thanks so much for the 15 mins 😉 with Arne and Carlos. So glad you were able to visit with your Mom and Dad during the Holidays Carlos. We had a bird fly down our chimney last year and into the woodstove. It was Summer so no fire going. It flew around the house for a bit and my Husband managed to throw a towel over it and put it outside...it was a European Starling. Also had mouse issues at a another house we lived in but won't go into that. Nice that you were able to let the mouse outside again...I'm sure it was fine in the snow. Yes, we Canadian are pictured living in igloos with Polar Bears in our back yard. Funny how others depict other cultures. We have similar weather here in Nova Scotia as you have in Norway. -9C here tonight...no snow.🤗🥰🇨🇦Sharon.

I love my European Vloggers. I have learned and seen so much of your country and of the places that you have traveled that I otherwise would not have. Thank you.

Can’t imagine spending so long on a holiday trying to catch a mouse! Too funny

Happy New Year and welcome back! Love seeing what you have been up to since the holidays. So glad you resolved the mouse situation. Ick. Looking forward to another year of fun with A&C!

Don’t worry lots of people loves you both

I'm glad I can use my library website while I listen to you

I'm here for SAKFAB with a 100% cocoa hot chocolate with oatmilk honey and two caps of Baileys Irish Cream!

Wauw Marleen, wat een PRACHTIG vest is het geworden! Het is iedere keer een genot om naar jouw vlogs te kijken. Je bent zo heerlijk enthousiast en hebt zo'n leuke humor. Ik geniet ervan, dankjewel!

Happy new year to you two! I did the kal and it was the first time for me using double pointed kneedles. I was impressed with myself and my tension was just right even with switching the yarns from right go left no dominance just the right tension! Thank you for the wonderful pattern, now my boyfriend has already claimed this Christmas sock for himself and I will have to fill it for him next year 😂

This mouse saga is too much!! Arne is the hero of the story. I would scream too with mice in my space.

We've always used peanut butter. And be patient for a day or two. They will not climb into bed with you. Spiders? Maybe another story if they drop from the ceiling.

Congratulations to the winners 🎉

Happy New Year. If I found a mouse, 2:33 I would scream. You make it sound so funny. But I would be freaked out. I visited the Munch Museum when I was in Oslo. I love it when you talk about places I've been. Glad to see SAKFAB is back. Love you both! ❤

Its meant to be summer here in the SE of South Australia. 19 degrees celcius when it should be in the 30s. Unusual lightening/thunderstorms. We have snakes in our wood heap. Had to evict a brown snake when moving the pile. I took a video of a mouse that got into the kitchen cupboard when I lived in Adelaide 8yrs ago. A very camera shy mouse, then all of a sudden, a flick of the tail. Caught it in a live trap then let it go in vacant land near where I used to park my car near work.