Sockpixie

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

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Ear scalpelling

A couple of months ago I got my earlobes scalpelled. They were already stretched to 10mm (known as 000g or maybe 00g in non-metric places). Not just because I wanted them bigger, but because how the original holes were shot forever ago. Apparently it’s pretty common not to have the original holes placed properly, this [...]

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 [...]