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Tanja moved from Germany to Switzerland to be with her husband. In what seems like another life now she studied Chemistry at university. Miles and miles of stockinette or garter bore her to death most of the time. That’s why her patterns usually have lace, cables or color work and tutorials to go with them so every knitter can join the fun. When she‘s not knitting, she is playing the piano or on the computer, dreaming about moving to Scandinavia, reading, sewing, taking photos or cuddling her three cats.

Just thinking

There’s a saying in German that translates to “if you think you’re thinking, you’re only thinking that you think”. So, while spinning tonight with my lace whorl, I thought I was getting better. Then my yarn broke. I joined again, continued and after a while, I thought I was getting better. But then my yarn …

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Not giving up

In case you’ve been wondering – no, I haven’t given up on my 100 days of Spinning project! I made this on the last weekend Having finished all old projects still lying around, I changed from my regular whorl to the lace whorl I bought a while ago. It’s almost like learning to spin all …

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Day 3

Today has been quite stressful, so this will be just a quickie. 30 g of my treasured Roseberry by Elfenwolle (50 % BFL, 50 % rayon) have been turned into this: 30 g are left for spinning tomorrow and 60 g are hiding somewhere in the chaos that’s my yarn room in progress of being …

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Day 2

Ready and waiting for it’s bath, 330 m / 100 g of Falkland Wool ? For the first time, I’ve done most of the Andean bracelet myself instead of letting hubby watch a tutorial and wrap the yarn around my hand. I don’t know why I have such a hard time with the Andean bracelet, …

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Day 1

I’m pretty sure I’ve written this before about sewing (which I still can’t do), but the same seems to be true for spinning (and maybe even other things, who knows). If you don’t do it, you’re not going to learn it. And neither am I. So I’ve decided to challenge myself and spin every day …

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