About me
I’m a twentysomething living in Germany, currently working on my Master Thesis. When I was a child, my mother taught me how to sew and crochet, but knitting wasn’t really part of this early fiber-education. I chose sewing, and spend hours and hours creating garments for myself, costumes and other useful things. I learned a lot, but finally I felt like there isn’t that much to learn anymore. Nothing really, really new. Nothing I had to learn from scratch. I know that the field of sewing is great enough to occupy someone for his/her whole lifetime, but this is what it felt to me. So I searched for something new and after a few crocheted items, I moved on to knitting. I found a friend who taught me how to knit and to purl, and I completed my first knitted piece. (A hideous fun fur scarf. Don’t tell anyone. I had no idea about good yarn at that time). Some time went by. I marveled about people who were able to knit tubes on the tiniest needles - I started with a 10 mm circular. Everything below 4 mm was unbelievable small. I bought some dpns and some sock yarn and tried my luck. But as my hands still were too unfamilliar with the whole thing, it was awefully slow. After 20 rounds I gave in. Some time passed until I stumbled upon magic loop and I fell in love with it. Even today I still prefer a long circ over dpns (big advantage: twice as many sts on the needle when knitting fingers).
Some time afterwards, when I already made some hats, scarves and other basic things, I thought of writing my own patterns. When I take a look at my first patterns today, they make me smile just for being the first pieces I ever wrote down. Not that they are anything special, but they are one little piece on the road that took me where I am today.
My head is full of ideas and the only problem is to find enough time to write them down.
Some quote of Charles Dickens really nails it down:
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Once I have a new idea it stays in my head, get’s reshaped, turned around, and at some point I fall in love with it. Suddenly I HAVE to knit it, just to see it with my own eyes and try if the idea turns out the way I envisioned it.
I hope that each pattern I publish will bring the person knitting it an equal amount of joy and a treasured pair of gloves.
Julia
