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 make tongue tie itself into a know when I try to say them, it’s fun )

The special thing about them is that they are, in fact, my first pair of completly vegan socks! made in panda cotton. A yarn so lovely that I’m considering buying enough for 5 more pairs of socks…

For the rest of the details, check them out at ravelry.

As a ps. I’m not knitting as much as I used to these days, I don’t know why, I just dont. So these socks have been with me for a long time, and I’m still not finished with them.

A week ago I wen to a studio, as a nerveous little wreck, and made an appoitment.
This monday, in the evening, I lay on a bench with a bunch of small needles quickly piercing my skin, putting in colour.

And now… I’m itching a little (but not scratching, that would only make it worse). And while I’m itching I’m thinking about what my next tattoo will be, where it will be. Planning my second before the first has fully healed. A sign of a new obsession?

It’s a sparrow-hawk. I’m not able to get a picture of the entire tattoo at once as it curls around my arm a little. It’s located on my upper left arm, almost at the elbow, and at the back.
I’m looking forward to it being completly healed though as well.

I don’t have a good picture of you Medusa, as you never stood still long enough for me to take one.

You will be missed.

It’s the easter holiday. This means that I got nothing I should be doing.
So I made stitch markers today, with the beads I found while reorganizing my workplace yesterday.

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 and was really modest about taking in new stuff just because I had no choice.

In 2007 I got my economy somewhat on my feet, and vowed to build myself a stash, just so that I would have a backup plan if I was back in the position from the previous year. I also went vegan in october, and stopped buying animal fibers.

And now it’s 2008. I got my stash, some of it is pretty, some of it isn’t, and most of it isn’t vegan. It might be a little late to have resolutions for the new year now, but I do.

• I will continue to not buy animal fibers, and knit down a lot of what I have
• I will try to use more from the stash than I put into it
• I will learn to knit socks without wool that I can love as much as the ones with wool
• I will make at least one hoodie, that I will wear regularly
• I have joined a stash-turnover group at Ravelry and I will follow it’s lead. By adding new gorgeus yarn to it, and use up the old