Sari silk rug

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 [...]

Rachmaninoff

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 [...]

2008 goals

It’s the last day of january today, it seems like a good time to make this years resolutions regarding knitting, and especially one aspect of it has been on my mind the last couple of days.
Stash… (long pause)

In 2006 I had no money, bought next to no new yarn except on a couple of occasions [...]

Swappy time

I love participating in swaps
Rigth now it’s a Vegan post-holiday swap, over at the group Vegan knitters and crocheters at ravelry. The swap was a great idea, and the fact that ravelry exists makes it so much easier to join something like that.

I haven’t sent mine yet, but I hope to do it [...]