Usually I don’t name my socks. But this is the exception. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a composer of classical music. And the one that wrote the piece I spent some time knitting to indoors on a fine saturday afternoon, KIP’ing away. It’s not a great story, but I liked the name (russian and french names always make tongue tie itself into a know when I try to say them, it’s fun )

The special thing about them is that they are, in fact, my first pair of completly vegan socks! made in panda cotton. A yarn so lovely that I’m considering buying enough for 5 more pairs of socks…

For the rest of the details, check them out at ravelry.

As a ps. I’m not knitting as much as I used to these days, I don’t know why, I just dont. So these socks have been with me for a long time, and I’m still not finished with them.

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

On the way home after a long day (I have to get up before seven and got home about ten today) I listened to the latest episode of stash and burn that I had on my ipod. The picture gave me a little kick, lots of clapotis’, guess which one is mine, there is no prize if you guess right though… I’ve spent all my cash on cookbooks

A new episode of the podcast downloaded when I got home. That always makes me happy. It’s a great show.

Tags: knitting in public, podcast

Tomorrow is going to be a long day.
First school, then a meeting (student politics) and then the fun; S’n'b.

A stitch’n'bitch in Oslo. yay!
I’m going, taking my current sock in progress and hoping it will turn out ok.
Thankfully I’m too tired to be nervous.

Tags: knitting in public

As I talked about a couple of days ago I’m knitting Fetchings on the train, they have replaced the socks I’m usually making, I still feel a bit socked-out after this summer.

A few notes on the pair I’m making.

• 3.5mm needles,
• Bamboo by Idéna.
• I’m twisting the cables in the same direction on both, since I’m lazy like that.
• On the finished one I messed up the distance between two cable rows, oops.
• Lengthened the part after the tumb to 8 rows instead of 4 before cable twist
• The yarn is splitty, and has a gazillion plies.

I love them, even though they’re not going to be the warmest fetchings ever (in that respect, bamboo is a bad choice).

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I recently bought this yarn, and I’m now trying to make some fetchings out of it.

I know it’s not the warmest yarn (bamboo) but I wanted to make something small at first just to test run it… So far, after casting on and just having made a couple of rounds, it feels like velvet. I love it!

One of the reasons I started it was a realization I had, that I hadn’t knit in public (KIP) in weeks! It’s amazing how much more complete I feel with a small project in my bag…

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