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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 [...]

Spidery tank

Tekopp — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:56:53 +0000

I’m surprised over the way people talk about the Interweave knits magazine on some forums and blogs, like the magazine used to contain only brilliant patterns and now doesn’t contain anything of value. I disagree with this, and think that it’s possibly just a shift in the target audience that has happened. I love a lot [...]

Saoirse “Shawl”

Tekopp — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:15:07 +0000

Currently I’m knitting what I like to call a “shawl” as it in the interweave pictures is pictured as a skirt, but called a shawl. We’ll see what I end up using it for in the end.

The project is a marriage between a yarn I’ve been drooling over for some time at a LYS (Tjorven [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WIP Fetching

Tekopp — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:02:20 +0000

As I talked about a couple of days ago I’m knitting Fetchings on the train, they have replaced the socks I’m usually making, I still feel a bit socked-out after this summer.

A few notes on the pair I’m making.

3.5mm needles, Bamboo by Idéna. I’m twisting the cables in the same direction on both, since I’m lazy like [...]

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 [...]

Bad blogger

Tekopp — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:18:32 +0000

I obviously suck at updating my blog.

Pictures I should have put up ages ago:

Only 30 rows and the border on top left. And the blocking and giving it away of course… (belated christmas gift)