Two books I’m reading right now

No Sheep for You is a great book all about knitting with non-animal products. It does include silk, so the book isn’t completely vegan. But it does contain a lot of information on how and why different yarns behave like they do. And when a pattern calls for wool, this book gives you a lot of help picking the best alternative. Be it soy, cotton, hemp or synthetics.

The book even takes it a step longer, and not only tells you, but gives you an example. The editor of the book (Amy Singer) has said that she tried to show that everything you do with animal fibers, you can do without them as well, except felting…

For me right now, the only problem with the book is that it makes me want to spend lots of money on yarn, so that I can knit some of the projects. I am knitting the tuscany shawl out if it already…

Vegan Freak: being vegan in a non-vegan world is basically a book about how you can be vegan without losing your marbles. It talks very briefly about why you need to be vegan, and the rest is tips about how to interact with friends and family, the world, shopping and some other stuff.

I haven’t finished the book yet, but so far I really like it. The things I’ve learned so far are mostly stuff the people around me are going to benefit from, not me though. Because it forced me think about not being to preachy. I know I have preached a little about veganism on my blog lately, but that’s why I have a blog, here I talk about stuff to get them out of my system

The podcast the authors of this book produces is great as well, and I recommend it highly. It’s what made me seriously consider cutting out the crap and go vegan instead of vegetarian.

Tags: Books, knit, podcast, Vegan, vegetarian

Life has had me going/doing way to many/much places/things.

That’s why my pictures of the Tuscany shawl I started when Amy Singer was teaching a class here in Oslo(!)
In the picture the shawl kind of looks like it does in real life, color wise. Not really, but sort off (yay Photoshop!).

I met Theresa at the class as well, and got to praise her a little for her tutorials at knitty. Meeting her reminded me that I needed finish up the fuzzy feet I had put in hibernation. I haven’t finished the pair yet, but now I’m working on it

Tags: amy singer, knit, lace, shawl, silk, tuscany

I was knitting on my sock today while I waiting for the train to take me home after a long day, listening to a podcast and minding my own stuff.

A woman taps me on the shoulder “excuse me, the sock you are knitting, aren’t you knitting it in the wrong direction? How do you do that?”
I talked to her about it, just a little bit, at first, how I found stuff like that online.

She was so nice! And just as obsessed with knitting as me, and sooo happy when I gave her the directions to get a pattern like that!
Great!
So we talked until the train got there and both left smiling.

Stuff like that makes me want to knit in public more often

Tags: kip, knitting in public, socks, toe-up sock

I’m going to a class with Amy Singer the 19th october. If you are in the area around oslo, or can be, you can too. Just go here and see.
Actually, the info on the page isn’t that good, but still, it’s a knitting festival! In this part of the world!!!

Oh, and Opal has came out with a new rainforest collection. One of the colors are called the same as my sweetie, so I’ll pick that up soon. Probably.

Why probably?
Because I’m having some issues, not with opal. I love Opal yarn, it’s not the softest yarn to knit with, but the socks lasts a lot longer than the softer nicer yarn.
No, because I’m thinking about going vegan.

Yup, vegan. The crazy people that don’t drink milk or knit with wool or silk.
It’s possible to still be a knitter as vegan. I can even get great boots as a vegan.

I’m thinking about it. There are lots of good reasons for it, but right now it’s too much for me to think about to talk properly about it right now. More on that later.

Tags: amy singer, milk, opal, Vegan, yarn

The new knitty is up!
And, it has the sollution to my problem of finding a hoodie pattern with Roam.

Let me say it like mutts does: Yesh!

(Neiman got my attention as well)