A beautiful good morning to today's Saturday coffee! I wish the dear Ninja a very special day! A very special day ... that is it today for them this Saturday! Yes, Saturday again. It's really incredible how fast the weeks go by. I have found a few nice links for you to browse through. Have fun!
We had already recently once the topic "Poncho". Goes always, I find! At Rowan there is just a whole pattern booklet only with ponchos! A poncho collection. I like this one best.
Last week I linked to a photo from Melody's Mandarine blog, it was about Faire-Isle. Melody has started a new podcast (crazy how many podcasts there are now, I've linked to a few here on the net whisper). This one is a video podcast where Melody shows off her current and recently finished projects. I think it's great! She talks very slowly, when knitting in the evening on the sofa it's comfortable, however, in the long run I'm rather someone of the "faster" kind and get bored when the information flows too slowly. The first episode is very much about Faire Isle, I find her projects incredibly beautiful and Melody herself, by the way, is also a very, very magical person, hop over and check it out!
Somewhere on the net I stumbled across the books of the two Norwegians Arne and Carlos, I think it was during my research for Faire Isle and Norwegian pattern. They have recentlypublished a book with various pattern in the Norwegian pattern.I don't know it, can you guys recommend it? Anyway, then again I also came across their lovely book on knitted Christmas baubles - called Julekuler - and judging by the reviews, it seems like a very successful book! I think knitting tree ornaments is a lovely idea! Hach and how cozy is the idea to knit red-white Christmas balls at Advent time with warm candlelight in the evening on the sofa? Since I come glautt in the anticipation mode.
Speaking of books: Jessica from Schönstricken asked me about my favorite knitting books. One of them I present to you today over at her blog! My absolute favorite reference book!
Do you already know the project "make29" from Elise? She turned 29 this year and to celebrate she came up with this special - pretty crazy - project. On the 22nd of every month she puts a special handmade product in the number 29 or 290 in her store - so a respective special edition. This month it's (ATTENTION:) 29 knitted baby blankets that she spent a year knitting. She's telling a bit more about it on her blog right now.
By the way, Elise also has a podcast. Not specifically about knitting, but rather directed at all those who are just building a "handmade business" in the smaller or larger sense.
So and if you now still have desire, then hop but again to "On the needles in November", because there are already many beautiful projects gathered!
Today there was a lot to read! I wish you a nice weekend!
The other day I told you about my knitting friend Cécile, who knits the babies in our circle of friends with blankets and pillows. Today I show you her absolute favorite baby blanket (I've christened it "Paul & Paula") and because it is so simple, she also quickly wrote down the pattern for you, then you can get started right away.
It couldn't be simpler: stockinette (stockinette stitch) in two colors without any border (I like how it makes the blanket curl up at the edges):
Always alternate per color one row right (there) and one row left (back).
Depending on the sample, you need to calculate the number of stitches for a baby blanket. A size of 80x80cm is sufficient.
You need for this baby blanket of each color 3 balls Sole of Pascuali. The knitting pattern with stitch count etc. can be found free of charge here in the store or you simply order the knitting kit, which of course also containsinstructionsttern free of charge as well as the required amount of yarn in your desired colors. The blankets are very easy to care for, you can wash them in the washing machine at 30 ° C, they do not fluff and are well suited for newborns, also for sucking, nibbling and whatever else the little ones do with it.
By the way, Cécile has i-m-m-e-r such a blanket on the needles, quasi the counterpart to the obligatory socks for in between!
A very good Saturday morning I wish you! Today is a very special day for us and we celebrate it with a few colorful balloons. For Saturday coffee I leave you a few links to browse:
In Munich there is a wonderful creative store with yarns, fabrics and haberdashery. Even an integrated small café belongs to it. I think I have to go there soon, I know Die Mercerie because so far only from Maki's pictures. Anyway, there is now also a new online store and there you can find great neon yarn. Is neon still in? I don't know, but I think it's pretty cool. I can't link the color directly, but look, I mean the Madelinetosh Merion Light in the colors Firewood and Neon Peach!
Have you seen the great, great new Knit Kits from Nina? The mohair scarf Silky Cloud is awesome, it gives me that want-to-knit feeling... if only I had a few more evenings! However, if you don't want to knit yourself, these kits are certainly super good to give as gifts!
Looking at this, I really want to learn Faire Isle soon. Or is that even Faire Isle? I have no idea at all about color pattern knitting. Can you explain it to me?
Attention podcast lovers: Ashley from the awesome blog Woolful is starting a new podcast! For knitters, shepherds, dyers, spinners and all who belong.
Are you also interested in the way to the beautiful yarn? Then take a look at Käthe's site. There she writes in detail and vividly about carding fleeces and the problems involved. I would love to visit her spinning workshop. Unfortunately, too far away and here in Berlin I have not yet found.
Have a great Saturday!
You've probably already noticed that I'm a very big Instagram fan. I look there several times a day and love to scroll through the pictures, get inspired, or just look at what other friends and acquaintances are doing. A few weeks ago I stumbled across Susanne's account paulastrickt. I don't even remember how - she had probably just "liked" one of my pictures. She was still very fresh on Instagram, but I immediately liked her knits and pictures, so from now on I just "followed" her too. For her fine label Paula_m Susanne knits in chord. At some point I had to ask incredulously: Do you actually knit all this yourself? Yes... she actually knits all the pieces herself by hand. Amazing! So I wanted to know more and wrote Susanne an email. With many questions!
How old are you and how long have you been knitting and how did you get into it in the first place?
I am 33 years old and have been involved in needlework since early childhood. At the age of 7 I started to crochet, my two grandmothers have "taught" me. I can still remember well my first attempts, from orange wool a pot holder should arise (square)...it became a triangle. I kept at it despite the first disappointments and got better and better. Eventually I was able to crochet clothes for my Barbies and stuffed animals. I often spent the summer vacations at my grandma's and it was not uncommon for us to crochet filet doilies together. Even today, it's usually all about knitting and crocheting when I visit my grandma.
I taught myself to knit relatively late, in 2007 after the diploma thesis I had 2 months break before I started in the working world. So I bought a book and started knitting, my first project was socks. I actually got it down on my 2nd try and at that point my passion for knitting and crocheting completely erupted. There was no stopping me.
What do you do besides knitting? Or do you run your label Paulastrickt full-time?
I am actually a graduate restorer of stone objects and work in this profession mainly in the summer on construction sites at churches, castles, etc. all over Germany. But my dream is to make my passion my main profession, so this year I took the plunge and put my restorer job on hold for the time being.
How did the name "Paula_m" come about?
Paula_m stands for Paula Müller and that's my dear grandma (see above), who laid the foundation for my knitting and crocheting passion. Even today I can talk shop with her the best. The last time I visited, she presented me with a giant stack of knitting magazines (vintage 1960-present). After I completed my happy dance, we looked through every single magazine and I was allowed to take what I wanted :)))) Great source of inspiration!
The decision to open a Dawanda store was made in 2011. At that time I worked for a long time on a construction site in Amsterdam and due to this brilliant city had ideas for knitting projects non-stop. I even smeared knitting pattern on the backs of construction and mapping plans while I was at work, and then tried them out after work. Of course, this did not go unnoticed by my colleagues, and at some point the first orders started coming in. Topmotivated I then knitted a small "collection" for my own Dawanda store. And so it all started with Paula_m.
Photos: left: The saying on my shirt is program ;), right: a bunch of finished orders for the online store.
What does your everyday knitting look like?
Here I have to decide quite clearly between spring/summer and fall/winter. Spring/summer is the creative time, I try out a lot, look for ideas, dig through my "knitting library", look for knitting pattern and make a lot of swatches. When a pattern convinces me, I think about what I could make out of it. Hat, scarf, headband ....
Photos: left: Susanne's wool store. Right: Workplace where Susanne knits every day.
Once this decision is made, the most nerve-wracking part begins: knitting, unraveling, knitting, unraveling, and so on. Until the respective model fits perfectly. I rib up to 6 times a finished hat, just so I can see if it looks better, for example, if I cast on 2 stitches less. Highly crazy, but I can not help it.
In autumn/winter I just knit what my customers order in the store. If there are a lot of orders, I knit day and night. Very important: my pattern book, in which all my pattern, which I have worked out spring/summer, are. And so that the whole thing is not boring, I knit very much according to customer wishes. All my things are customizable in color and size and I'm actually always happy when I can fulfill an extra wish.
Photos: headband AVA, my favorite headband, I own it in almost all colors.
Is there an absolute favorite yarn that you "must" buy and knit over and over again?
Difficult question, there is no absolute favorite. I like Debbie Bliss because the colors are great and the wool is so "unexcited", i.e. cable and structure patterns come out very well. I also like Mirasol wool very much at the moment, because I have fallen madly in love with the qualities "Sulka" and "Ushya". A perennial favorite and to be found in all corners of my apartment, is wool from Isager. With this wool you usually knit multi-threaded and combine virgin wool, alpaca, cotton, linen and mohair with each other. There are wonderful patterns by Helga Isager to match the yarn. Last but not least, I've recently started knitting with handspun wool from Kathrin of backtothewheel. Kathrin spins wonderful yarns and you can even have her spin the yarn of your choice. Mostly she knows the wool suppliers, i.e. sheep, alpacas and angora rabbits personally. Together with her I have also designed a small Knit-Kit collection of handspun wool.
All the beautiful wool I love to work into hats and headbands = a quick sense of achievement ;). Textured patterns and cable knits are my favorite, and I also love knitting in two or more colors. In the Fair Isle area, however, there is still a lot for me to learn.
Photo: Susanne's color cards for custom orders.
Do you actually also have a blog or your own page? I got to know you via Instagram (sooo beautiful pictures always, by the way)? Do you have more in this regard in planning?
I currently sell only through Dawanda, but my own website is definitely in planning. Friends and acquaintances have long been in my ears with the fact that I am much too dependent on this platform. But when it comes to marketing or self-promotion, I'm a real zero. But I'm trying to improve, my Instagram account is already a good start.
Photos: left: photo shoot 2013, not a posed photo, we went by bike through Hanover and looked for the most beautiful places. right: This is how my hats, scarves and headbands are created......they fall from the sky 😉
Thank you, Susanne, for this beautiful and authentic interview!
Are you not from so taken by these beautiful pictures and knits? Then follow Susanne on her beautiful Instagram account and hop over to her store. Christmas is just around the corner! You can not knit everything yourself.... can't you?
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A very good morning to you! Grab your Saturday coffee, I have collected again a few nice links to browse:
I am absolutely totally in love with this scarf. Is it the color combination? Or this pattern interplay? Anyway. Please stop me from signing up to try knitting. You know... There's enough going on needle-wise around here!
Last Tuesday I was at the "Crafty Caffee Clatsch" by Stoff'n in a beautiful wool store in Kreuzberg, which I did not know at all! Carla has created a super pretty little store with Needles & Pins, where you can not only buy wool, but also knitting classes are offered.
This fairy wand would certainly go down brilliantly here!
Last week I showed you the crocheted provisional stop based on a technique by Ysolda Teague. Basically the same, but executed differently, you can find at Purl Bee! I don't know what I find easier.
I have countless scraps of yarn accumulated in a large box - in all imaginable colors. From this I could actually make lots of colorful pompoms. Quasi as a leftover recycling! Good idea, right?
What a pity that the prince is already running around, I would otherwise like to knit him such pants.... but they are only suitable for lying children. Much too bad otherwise! Maybe a nice Christmas gift inspiration for one or the other of you?
By the way, there is already a lot going on this month at "Auf-den-Nadeln"! So hop there from time to time, there are always new contributions!
I wish you a wonderful weekend! Tomorrow evening I have here on the blog once again visit. You may be curious!
Via Hannah Fettig from Knitbot I came across the site Customfit. What a brilliant idea somehow! You choose one of the designs and after entering your own body measurements and the gauge with any yarn, you get the pattern individually tailored to you and the selected yarn. There are not yet instructionsttern online, but the basic idea I find good.
When I'm knitting, I really like listening to these podcasts right now.
A tutorial for pretty, fingerlorse children's gloves I found here. Sure, the fingers must also be kept warm, but what children like to wear gloves with fingers? Or even mittens? With the former, you fiddle around for hours in vain to maneuver all five fingers to the right place each time (at least I rarely succeeded last winter). With mittens, on the other hand, they feel too restricted. Can certainly bring the one or other tantrum with it. Fingerless gloves I find there not a bad compromise.
Oh and also in the last week a few projects have migrated to the list of On the Needles in October! So hop over again and look who knits this month there all!
Have a great weekend!
Are you actually on Instagram too? I love it! I'm almost a little addicted. I like the quick communication via pictures, sharing inspirations and everyday life. I check in several times a day and just realized I've been on there for 124 weeks... quite a bit of knitting since then:
Since last week I even have over 1'000 followers, wow(!), and didn't even notice it! For this I want to leave you today a few of my Insta-favorites in terms of wool and knitting here:
Madebysiri shows beautiful knitted children's clothing in warm colors | Camillabeate73 shows a lot of wool, work-in-progress and knitted children's clothing | Clairedupont shows besides a lot of everyday life also many knitting projects and knits beautiful sweaters and shawls | Knitbot is Hannah Fettig, knitwear designer from Portland. She shows her projects and designs | Moiens - super beautiful projects in always beautiful colors | Bmandarines shows beautiful hats-in-progress and sweaters, with lots of pattern | Susiehaumann, shows the creation of her knitting designs.
Do you have Insta-favorites in terms of wool, knitting & Co. Will you tell me about them?
In the mood for spring? Here you can find spring yarns 
Neu - Sandnes 2407 - Sommerbaby 
Neu bei uns - Lankava 
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