I’m very into the idea of doing sweaters now, knowing that school and fall/winter is coming in not too long a time (realistic, not depressive way of thinking). A little list then. They are probably being made in this order as well, unless something else fascinates me before (probably will, my upcomming lists are a bad joke)

1. 1. The 50`s style sweater from Rowan Vintage Style in Felted Tweed (I love the pattern, I loved the yarn sitting on a shelf, the price freaked me a little…)
2. 2. Josephine from knitty. Most probably in the nicest alpacca I found the other day. And the lady at the LYS encouraged me to pet it as much as I wanted (sneaky, it was so nice anyone would covet it)
3. 3. This in long sleeved version (I’m thinking light grey or deep muddy red)
4. 4. wrap/cardigan from the rowan book mentioned above

I have some other ideas as well. Some Fair Isle/stranded patterns, and the Eskimo pattern in some variation of it.
I’m allready looking forward to my fall knitting. This year thick woolen socks and funky sweaters are the main things on my list. Sock pattern list comming soon as well.

Put your feet on the table (in the new pair of socks you adore, even though it’s way to hot to wear them at the moment)

knit on something you enjoy (first pair of trekking socks works)

and ignore the fact that you are, in fact, not in a park, but on a roof (look, the cars are so tiny down there!).

One of the blogs I’ve just started reading (and enjoy a lot, I love finding good blogs) is tagging people with a meme. So straight from Neglecting My Kids I have this:
Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Wardrobe person at steak resturant
2. Road builder (for the state)
3. Working with “special” children
4. Sandwich Artist.

B) Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Amelie from Montemarte
2. Pride and Prejudice (bbc filmed)
3. Girl, Interrupted
4. Lord of The rings (lumping all three together)

C) Four places you have lived besides where you live now:
1. Tromsø (northern norway)
2. Hønefoss (southern norway)
3. Stokmarknes
4. Mosjøen (middle of norway)

D) Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Futurama
2. The news
3. Wildlife shows on animal planet
4. House

E) Four places you have been on vacation:
1. Scopolos, Greece
2. New Delhi, India
3. London
4. Roskilde, Denmark

F) Four websites I visit daily:
1. KnittyBoard
2. Bloglines
3. Neopets
4. 43things

G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tortilla Chips
2. Garlic Bread
3. Subway Wraps w/sweet chili
4. Porrdige

H Four places I would rather be right now:
1. In my own appartment (I must just get one first)
2. In bed
3. Drinking coffee at “Bare Jazz” (music store/coffee shop combined)
4. In a comfy sofa, knitting and listening to audio books

I) Four friends I think will respond:

If you read this, you are tagged. It’s that simple. That means you too Kristian

I’ve been having a couple of strange crafty ideas lately. Involving things other than knitting. Finally, something good has come out of it, I think.

Stitch-markers, in true DIY style I suddenly wanted to make them, and I did.

They are by no means perfect. But I got a little better at it with practise. The first one is to the right, and the farter left, the more ok they work. My first try at beading

Plastic Bag Crochet

As the hippy I am, I recycle as much as I can. This is old plastic bags, stripped into loops, banded together as to make it resemble yarn, and crochet with a 7mm hook. In the picture the bottom part of my (hopefully) new shopping bag is taking form.

Pomatomus mistake nr1.

Somewhere in this picture I’ve managed to do something strange. And made this needle nr1. instead of it’s original position as nr3. Go figure. This is just one of the three realy silly mistakes I’ve done so far. But since I probably will do more before I finish this pair (almost at the heel at nr2 now) details will come later. Luckily only one is visible to the untrained eye.

Trying not to get sucked into the alure of Second Sock Syndrom with these. After grafting the toes together, I left the needles bare for about… 2 seconds. And cast on the other sock. Pomatomus in action.

The tank top I posted about previously has gotten cast on, and I’m done with the bottom of the back. 25-30% done. Sounds a lot better than 75-70% left of knitting. Closeup of the easy peasy stitch pattern included.

The only real problem with this is that I’m finding that cotton blends dosen’t look as good as animal fiber in lace. Actually, I can’t think of a less forgiving yarn… except maybe wire, but that’s a real maybe.

Beading: I have off course been sucked into the whole stitchmarker frency. I’ve been using some plastic thingies not really ment to be on the needle, but placed on the knitting. It’s been working, but not great. Therefore, I present you with

The beading set!

Some of the wires and things like that are not in the picture.

(Hopefully) Coming up on Tekopp.net: Finished socks. Tank top modelling. And a list of patterns going to be knit (a few will be crochet as well)