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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 [...]

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: [...]