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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 [...]

Olympic Sweater

Tekopp — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:28:22 +0000

I’m knitting a Iclandic yoke sweater for this years ravelympic

the Ravelry entry contains more info. So far, so good. All I’m really worried about is if it will fit in the end and not least of all the STEEKING!

Heart

Tekopp — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:37:41 +0000

I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve…

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 [...]

Cold sheeping it!

Tekopp — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:54:40 +0000

A couple of months ago a thread started over at the stash and burn groupies boards on Ravelry. The thread was originally about “going cold sheep for a year” meaning, a full year of yarn dieting.

This coincided with me realising that my yarn chest (an old seaman’s chest) was unable to close due to [...]

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 [...]

Possible change

Tekopp — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:23:30 +0000

I’m thinking about changing up this old blog that has been neglected for months. Putting it away and starting afresh…

The problem is my lack of skill with these things, but I hope it will come with practice. Also, putting away all of the old could be nice as that will clear out all of 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 [...]