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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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m still knitting

Tekopp — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:29:46 +0000

I’m still knitting up my pre-vegan stash (pregan? stash). This time it’s leftovers from the worlds ugliest afghan.

A friend wanted a slouchy hat and offered to buy the yarn to make it. But after a little stashdive that she did (I just dragged all of it out into the kitchen and asked her to enjoy [...]

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 [...]