Introducing Helen and Chester Johnson, the 2001 king and queen of Stoughton’s Syttende Mai! Syttende Mai is a Norwegian holiday celebrating the birth of Norway. Now people eat it just to say, “I’m Norwegian-American.” It’s dried fish that has been cooked again and served with lots of butter. Lutefisk is a dish that poorer people used to eat. For instance, on special holidays people could always go out with their bunads on. Stoughton is a very rich town culturally. Ĭarol makes Christmas tree ornaments and says that she plans on having an all-Hardanger tree. Then you carefully sew around the holes over the thread that’s left. You repeat this step until your ? only an intricate pattern of fabric all around the doily.
Then you pull some threads out in the form of a square. First you sew a pattern or outline, which will be the basic shape. The 22-count fabric used for Hardanger lace has tiny holes that you can thread the needle in and out of. Now the traditions are being broken a little, and you can get other colors too, like red, blue, green, and a couple others. Traditionally you do Hardanger lace either white thread on white fabric (white on white) or you do ivory thread with ivory fabric (ivory on ivory). She makes things like dolls, pillowcases, baptizing gowns, sheets, Christmas tree ornaments, etc. Carol Sklaven has lived in Stoughton all her life, and like many others in Stoughton and all over the world, she makes Hardanger lace.
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