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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 [...]

Sockpixie

Tekopp — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:47:23 +0000

Socks made from my basic sock recipe, but this time in vegan sock yarn, hand dyed from Sockpixie colorway: Manner of Yves St Laurent 2.5mm bamboo needles

Rachmaninoff

Tekopp — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:40:13 +0000

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

Tekopp — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:00:08 +0000

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 [...]

WIP: Azure and Quant

Tekopp — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:24:05 +0000

I’ve been a slack knitter this holiday, partly because I decided to not do any christmas knitting this year. I love not having to knit anything, the only problem is that as a result I almost didn’t.

Except: A sweater, in the pattern Ester. Unfortunately I’m not really finished with it yet, it needs a few [...]

My sock knitting recipe

Tekopp — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:13:32 +0000

Exams are coming up in a few weeks and I’m getting really stressed out about that. I don’t have the energy to write a proper post today. Instead you get to everything about how I like to make my socks. Exciting huh?

I stole this from Jaimie that had taken it from someone else as well [...]

KIP’ing

Tekopp — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:50:28 +0000

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 [...]

A knitting meme

Tekopp — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:27:30 +0000

I’ve seen this around before, but took it now from Damnknit’s blog

Mark with bold the things you have ever knit, with italics the ones you plan to do sometime, and leave the rest.

• Afghan • I-cord • Garter stitch • Knitting with metal wire • Shawl • Stockinette stitch • Socks: top-down • Socks: toe-up • Knitting with camel yarn • Mittens: Cuff-up • Mittens: [...]

WIP: Embossed Leaves

Tekopp — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:56:48 +0000

The embossed leaves socks (second pic on the page) are going nicely. Well, sort of nicely. It asks for a tubular cast-on, and since I was casting on at my parents house, there were no instructions on how to do it. So I just did the regular long-tail. Ooops. Not knitting just wasn’t an alternative at [...]