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More Olympic spirit

Tekopp — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:28:06 +0000

I just won two gold medals in the Ravelympics. One of them was just fun, an Ysolda hat pattern called Rose Red. The construction of this hat is genius with all shaping coming from the pattern itself (lace and cables). Knit in K1 Yarns Scappa some gift yarn from Edinburgh in a perfect blue/green colour. Love it.

Rose [...]

Damson in Bluegrass

Tekopp — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:40:26 +0000

Not long ago I received the long awaited paper edition of Whimsical Little Knits 2 and despite the fact that I still have a couple of midwinter presents (or christmas presents if you wish) to knit I just couldn’t resist casting on Damson.

I actually started in a red yarn before I realised that it would [...]

Selbu Modern Progress and Orion mitts

Tekopp — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:16 +0000

My biggest passion these last couple of months has been stranded colour work. And not just any kind of colour work, but going back to my roots and knitting traditional Norwegian mittens (generically known as Selbu mittens, even though most of my patterns are not in fact, from Selbu, just Norwegian) and socks. What I love [...]

Swatching

Tekopp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:34:00 +0000

Sometimes, I actually do it. Promise. This time it’s not actually to check gauge, but to see what colour should be the contrast colour, and which should be the main one on the Selbu Modern I’m about to make.

So what I did was to cast on two repeats and on my 3mm DPN’s knit in the [...]

Sari silk rug

Tekopp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:39:10 +0000

Stashbusting! After actually putting 99% of my stash into ravelry I felt an extreme need to use some of it and get it out of the calculations…

Thus the sari silk rug was born

Note: project looks a lot better IRL, especially in sunlight. Unfortunately, the camera can’t capture it :/ but it actually looks good. promise.

Because [...]

Summer is for socks and BSJ

Tekopp — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:37:40 +0000

I don’t even want to think about knitting anything that touches my lap at the moment, small projects it is! Especially considering the heatwave that struck scandinavia a couple of weeks ago…

My First Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmerman. Possibly being knit too small by me as I’m using 3.5mm needles :/ Thinking about [...]

Spidery tank

Tekopp — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:56:53 +0000

I’m surprised over the way people talk about the Interweave knits magazine on some forums and blogs, like the magazine used to contain only brilliant patterns and now doesn’t contain anything of value. I disagree with this, and think that it’s possibly just a shift in the target audience that has happened. I love a lot [...]

Finished Saoirse!

Tekopp — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:58:45 +0000

In the process of knitting the Saoirse (with deserved capital letter) I became completely obsessed. It’s a huge undertaking, using the better part of 11 balls of yarn…

But looking at it now, and wearing it, I would say absolutely that I don’t regret it at all.

At one point before the last increase round (with 1500-1600 [...]

Rebirth

Tekopp — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:36:58 +0000

This handspun yarn has now gone trough it’s third (yes third!) realisation. The reason behind this is the simple fact that it’s handspun and thus I had no idea how much of it I actually had or what to do with this lumpy bumpy spindlespun yarn. It was one of my first things to be [...]

Saoirse “Shawl”

Tekopp — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:15:07 +0000

Currently I’m knitting what I like to call a “shawl” as it in the interweave pictures is pictured as a skirt, but called a shawl. We’ll see what I end up using it for in the end.

The project is a marriage between a yarn I’ve been drooling over for some time at a LYS (Tjorven [...]