The Antidote

I am a yarn lover! The feel, the look, the fiber. Going to a yarn store beats all the other stores. It's like medicine for the soul. But what do you do when the yarn is too good? When you think that whatever you will make out of this material is not good enough? This happened to me when a friend treated me to 1 oz. of Qiviut which she bought in Alaska. Qiviut yarn is made out of the extremely fine under hair of musk ox. It is eight times warmer than sheep's wool by weight and it will not felt! Most people will never have the chance to even come close to this fiber since the production is so low.
Well I was lucky and over the weekend on our trip to Chicago I knitted a pair of beaded wristwarmers. I enjoyed every inch of this fiber gold and even the very small 2 mm needles and stringing almost 1000 beads onto the yarn excited me!
Knitting is my antidote! It gives me pride in my work and the ability to apply hard -earned expertise to the creation of something truly special and unique. To make something by hand is a connection in a disconnected world.

CIRCLE CARDIGAN

I have always been a big fan of Habu yarns and Japan! So how much better can it get than to combine this with knitting?! I am using Habu's stainless steel/silk yarn and Noro's Silk Garden Sock yarn to knit a circle cardigan. Everything will be knitted on circular needles in the round  and only knit stitch (for my friends who don't like to purl). I hardly ever knit anything for me but I think this will be for me. I like the colors  and it will look nice with black.... I can hardly wait to get it done.  I am close to setting in the sleeves which of course I still have to knit but it's a fast project and knitting with the Habu thread is not as hard as it seemed in the beginning. It's a matter of needle! The pointier the needle the better.

I will keep you posted on this one!

   

This is of course not knitting related but I am so proud of my Amarylis which I planted on December 6 and today January 16 it is in full bloom! 9 open blossoms!
I would have never thought that I could do this straight from the box.....

Check this out!

This will only last for two days but I got picked for the Etsy treasury page!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=106067

It is really hard to catch the right moment to create a page.....

A BIG Step Into This Blog World!

So now I am doing it! I have had this blog since November and I have thought about what to write every day. Then the miracle happened and Aimee who operates www.studioekko.com got me going. She is/was a big help and without her I would still be at my very first empty first page….So cudos to you AIMEE, you rock!!
It is hard to write the first entry especially when you are not sure yet how everything works.
But I am ready to do this!
So here is a quick introduction to the world about me and Absolute Knits.
I am originally from Germany but I have been living in the US for almost 15 years and I got my citizenship in 2008 – so I am good to stay. To be precise as my 11-year-old son would say: I live in Appleton, Wisconsin and I enjoy living here!
I was taught to knit in elementary school in Germany and we did quite elaborate projects like knitting a snake, a doll with hair and clothes (!) and a sweater! I think I was born to knit, I can’t live without it and there is no day where I am not working on something. Elizabeth Zimmermann is my soul mate.
In 1990 I graduated as fashion designer specialized in knitwear design. But then my mom got really sick and I never got a job in the knitwear industry.
In 1995 my husband and I moved to the US and since 2000 I am happily designing for magazines (I got the cover on the Vogue On-The-Go Series Scarves II http://store.vogueknitting.com/p-86-vogue-knitting-on-the-go-scarves-two.aspx and in spring I was on the cover of Knitter’s magazine http://www.xrxinc.com/flash/knitters/GalleryDetail.php?IssueNum=78&ID=485 ). I still design and make prototypes as my main source of income (Skacel Collections and Cascade) but my strongest wish is to design what I feel is missing. And there is a lot! My days are too short to make all my ideas come true!
I have a store on Etsy called Absoluteknits http://www.etsy.com/shop/AbsoluteKnits
and I am trying to list a new pattern every week. Sometimes I get a bit carried away and then I am crocheting…although knitting is my number 1, 2, and 3 addiction.
I teach knitting classes at least twice a week at my local yarnstore.
http://www.irisfineyarns.com/. It feels like big city to be at this store! It is the best I think! I am so grateful I live only three blocks away J…….
and I have other groups – I teach at Starbuck’s once a month. I could teach and meet with more people all the time but then there would not be any time left to design which is my passion after all.
I am also in the middle of getting my very own website www.absoluteknits.com going as well. My plate is getting fuller and fuller by the mintute! It is not done yet but please check back later!
I am looking forward to writing this blog!
So now I am doing it! I have had this blog since November and I have thought about what to write every day. Then the miracle happened and Aimee who operates www.studioekko.com got me going. She is/was a big help and without her I would still be at my very first empty first page….So cudos to you AIMEE, you rock!!
It is hard to write the first entry especially when you are not sure yet how everything works.
But I am ready to do this!
So here is a quick introduction to the world about me and Absolute Knits.
I am originally from Germany but I have been living in the US for almost 15 years and I got my citizenship in 2008 – so I am good to stay. To be precise as my 11-year-old son would say: I live in Appleton, Wisconsin and I enjoy living here!
I was taught to knit in elementary school in Germany and we did quite elaborate projects like knitting a snake, a doll with hair and clothes (!) and a sweater! I think I was born to knit, I can’t live without it and there is no day where I am not working on something. Elizabeth Zimmermann is my soul mate.
In 1990 I graduated as fashion designer specialized in knitwear design. But then my mom got really sick and I never got a job in the knitwear industry.
In 1995 my husband and I moved to the US and since 2000 I am happily designing for magazines (I got the cover on the Vogue On-The-Go Series Scarves II http://store.vogueknitting.com/p-86-vogue-knitting-on-the-go-scarves-two.aspx and in spring I was on the cover of Knitter’s magazine http://www.xrxinc.com/flash/knitters/GalleryDetail.php?IssueNum=78&ID=485 ). I still design and make prototypes as my main source of income (Skacel Collections and Cascade) but my strongest wish is to design what I feel is missing. And there is a lot! My days are too short to make all my ideas come true!
I have a store on Etsy called Absoluteknits http://www.etsy.com/shop/AbsoluteKnits
and I am trying to list a new pattern every week. Sometimes I get a bit carried away and then I am crocheting…although knitting is my number 1, 2, and 3 addiction.
I teach knitting classes at least twice a week at my local yarnstore.
http://www.irisfineyarns.com/. It feels like big city to be at this store! It is the best I think! I am so grateful I live only three blocks away J…….
and I have other groups – I teach at Starbuck’s once a month. I could teach and meet with more people all the time but then there would not be any time left to design which is my passion after all.
I am also in the middle of getting my very own website www.absoluteknits.com going as well. My plate is getting fuller and fuller by the mintute! It is not done yet but please check back later!
I am looking forward to writing this blog!