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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Swappy time

Tekopp — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:38:27 +0000

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fetching

Tekopp — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:47:10 +0000

I recently bought this yarn, and I’m now trying to make some fetchings out of it.

I know it’s not the warmest yarn (bamboo) but I wanted to make something small at first just to test run it… So far, after casting on and just having made a couple of rounds, it feels like velvet. I [...]