24: The One with the Sourdough
What we talked about:
Maria’s Me Made May day 1. Wearing an Audrey dress while having sewing night at the fabric store.
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On/off/under the needles
Maria didn’t knit a thing, but finished some great lounge trousers which she wore on the plane and worked on some modal baggy trousers (modal is a great summer fabric). She also finished a bunch of tank tops from a new pattern she’s releasing. In Bali she had to get extra sewing kits at the hotel so she was able to sew on buttons.
Tini talked about her WIPS: Cria cardigan and Maeva socks. Tini talks about baking with sourdough, which is like a new hobby for her (for Maria it’s just a household chore…). Tini also talks about her Ottobre blouse, which is not really working out for her. She also finished a project bag.
Screen shots from the draw
Maris’s got a notion
Marias husband made her a height adjustable cutting table – which acts as a dining table as well.
Maria also talked a bit about her vacation to Bali and of course about her vacation souveneir fabric shopping (she went to Alta Moda Textiles in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia)!
A Great Sewing Show:
We talked about The Great British Sewing Bee which we love!! Go watch. It’s great!
Me Made May
Maria is participating in Me-Made-May 2013. The Flickr group where you can see all the participants pictures can be found HERE. Maria’s Me-Made-Mays can be found on her blog and in her Flickr set.
Episode 23: The one, where you can win Wollmeise!
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Maria is giving away a seam gauge and a marking pen (chalk) as an incentive as well as a 3 meter long measuring tape in a cute bin for the people who sew.
On/of/under the needles
Tini finished her Spiral rib cowl by Ann Norling from Knit red! out of handspun Polwarth (from cloudlover 69 on etsy in the colourway Absynthe).
Levenwick and spiral rib cowl
Also finished are the stripey socks, but they need to be photographed. (They are drying at the moment). Since there was so much yarn left, she made a simple hat for one of the dolls of the twins out of some of the leftover yarn but there’s still so much yarn left over. There’s another hat done too, so that both kids have one!
Currently work in project for Tini are Maeva by Stefanie Bold from Knitty 2011.
Maria hasn’t fixed her knitting needle, so no work on her Owls sweater but has started a pair of plain vanilla socks in some nice Ripple crafts hand dyed yarn.
Tini’s revisting Ysolda Teague again. This time she’s knitting Cria from Little red in the city (go, buy the book!)
But there has been sewing for Maria. She has released a new pattern for the Audrey knit pattern. The dress pattern is available in a B-Cup or a C-Cup.
And the patterns have a new way of aligning, so that taping the pattern pieces is so much easier.
Maria is also revealing, who she’s drafting for!
Maria has worked on some trousers and tank-tops.
Tini has finished the UFO-Quilt and Maria has done some crochet for Easter!
Tini’s sewing. Still the blouse Nr. 1 from Ottobre 05/2007. And she has problems! While Maria was waiting for her pattern to arrive, she drafted a pattern for a shirt with cap-sleeves, that she will sew in a red polka dot fabric.
Tini has been spining as well.
I’ve got a notion
Maria has a new sewing machine! She loves her new Pfaff and Tini won’t comment on Pfaffs 
Life in Denmark/life in Germany
We talk about Easter in Germany and Denmark and the different traditions
Episode 22: Sixth time is a charm!
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(Marias part of the shownotes will follow soon)
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On/off & under the needles
Tini finished her Levenwick cardigan by Gudrun Johnston out of handspun and has had major problems with the buttonbands… (hence the title of the episode)
Maria is actually knitting and has picked up her Owl Sweater by Kate Davies again.
Tini has also finished her Spectra Shawl by Stephen West.
Soon to be on the needles for Maria is another Baby boy 5-hour sweater for her niece (to be born) by Gail Bable.
Currently a WIP for Tini is the Spiral Rib Cowl by Ann Norling out of the book “Stitch red” and she’s also knitting some plain vanilla socks.
Maria is going to release a pattern for a new knit dress soon and has also worked on a pattern for somebody else to release, so it’s a big secret.
Sewingwise Tini has made quite good progress on her UFO quilt and has cut out a blouse from Ottobre 05/2007 (which Maria wants to make as well) and a jacket using Onion 1032.
There’s been some sewing for the twins. The pattern is Amelie by Farbenmix.
A recap of our sewing weekend
Tini has enjoyed a sewing weekend in Aarhus, unfortunately Maria got ill.
Find the interview with our sewing instructor Celia Banks here.
Palmer-Pletsch: Fit for real people
Other Stuff we mention
Tatort (German Wikipedia)
Episode 21. The one with the cat that was once male
You can listen to the episode here or via itunes
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The quilt of doom – finally finished and delivered
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On/off/under the needles
Off
As a christmas goodie Maria offered a pattern for fleece socks (now available as very inexpensive pattern for sale!) so she made a couple (thousands!) of those.
Maria has accepted a sewing dare and made some colourful lounge trousers and a coordinating top. The pattern will be released at some point soon.
Tini finished a whole lot of stuff. She put herself on a dare to sew up all the fabric in her craft room (not all her stash, easy now!) before they remodel the addict.
The quilt of doom has been finished and delivered
Tinis day-to-night top has also been sewn and came out lovely.
Maria participated in Jungle January and sewed up a leopard pencil skirt – which she wore for the christening of her Goddaughter. 
Maria Apologizes for being totally out of line - it wasn’t Italian women she meant to describe- she was thinking about some of the women in My Big Fat Greek Wedding! (so she just offended some greek-americans – SORRY! Totes didn’t mean to!)
(And we jumped a tangent on the show and talked about the different Baptism Rites of Denmark and Germany – so it’s Life in Denmark/Life in Germany)
As a last minute gift for Christmas Tini made some wristwarmers out of some leftover wool felt. The pattern was an Adventcalendar freebie from Farbenmix but it’s available for sale as well.
Maria made a playing blanket for Sofie, with (not over the top cute, just cute) Winnie the Pooh fabric and matching fleece fabric. She also got all teh guests at the party to paint a square of cotton each, which she’ll sew into a blanket for Sofie – sometime before Sofies Confirmation…
The twins actually got to wear the Minikrea 20002 dresses for Grandma’s birthday and christmas.
For her friends little daugther Tini made another sleeping bag using a burda 2652 pattern (looooong OOP), that she had used 5 or 6 times already (at least).
She also revisited ottobre pattern no. 9 from their issue 03/2004 twice.
Maria also made some cool box bags as samples for her sewing class, and a costumer tried to steal it (not really).
The velvet Christmas dress (and some content from the doctor bag
Then there was knitting! At least Tini did a whole bunch!
Also (not mentioned in the podcast, because Maria forgot) Maria also actually finished some knitting: 2 pairs of mitts – one for her FIL and one for her husband.
Tini mentions the UILI Challenge by the Stash and Burn Podcast Group.
Tini finished the Riverton Cowl by Valerie Hobbs and the Pretty Thing Cowl by the Yarn Harlot. The latter was made out of Qiviut, a gift from Maria.
For a friends birthday, Tini pulled out some oooooold Trekking XXL and made a pair of Monkey Socks by Cookie A.
Spinningwise: Tini spun of green and white Rambouillet Rop by Cloud Lover 69 (available from etsy) and some lambswool roving, that she carded herself on a drumcarder
On/Under the needles and on the wheel
Tini: Still the Spectra by Stephen West and new Levenwick by Gudrun Johnston out of gray handspun Merino.
Under the needle: Besides tons of mending Tini is working on her quilt of doom no. 1
There’s also more spinning. Tini’s spinning a selfdyed Falkland top, the colourway is called Supernatural in honor of the tv series.
Maria found a project she had forgotten about – the cat face mittens. So she is working a bit on that.
On the horizon
Tini is planning to sew the Onion 1032 out of some bottle green wool felt, that she got on a fabric market in 2012.
Knittingwise Tini plans to make more socks.
Maria has a pencil skirt in fake leather cut out and partly sewn. And she is working on patterns for two dresses (a knit dress and a 50′s styled dress) that are not even in the production plan, but they might be made into patterns, still.
I’ve got a notion
Tini got some really nice Knitpro Karbonz circulars from Maria and her Christmas elf. Maria talk about buying cutting mats marketed for graphic designers at 1/6 of the price for when they are marketed for hobby people.
Life with twins and teens
Tini tells about the girls singing a lot, loud, ALL THE TIME (because they got gifts for singing at Christmas:-)).
Episode 20: The one with last minute gift ideas
Welcome to a special no-edit episode, in which you’ll hear about how we actually did something from earlier Horizons, talk about dancing around trees, and even hum!
Off, on and under the needles:
Off:
Tini finished Knotty by Julia Müller and Dads boring gray socks. She also a finished the quilt!!!!!! Yay!!!! (and one of the Christmas dresses while we recorded!)
Maria finished two winter dresses – one is the lovely Christmassy Christmas Dress. She also made the shower curtain she talked about in the last episode and a drape top – for which she has released a pattern.
On and under:
Tini is currently working on Spectra by Stephen West and on Minikrea 20002 dresses for the girls.
Maria is finishing up some gifts and making more fleece socks.
On the horizon
Tini wants to do a waterfall top (the drape top from before) when she is done with the dresses. She also has plans for cardigans. Maria might pick up the giant yarn ball and owl sweater again, but is also working on last minute gifts. Next sewing-for-fun project will have to be some skinny leather trousers that might be made into a pattern at some point..
Last minute gift ideas
A couple of years ago, Maria did some blog posts on handmade gift ideas – many of them being suitable for last minute gift giving:
Here is a list of handmade gift ideas for the picky men in your life and here is the post with ideas for everyone! Maria also talk about hemming pieces of cotton voile with a rolled hem and making scarfs as gifts. And easy placemats and napkins.
Tini also had great project ideas! Here are the Knitting projects: Riverton Cowl by Valerie Hobbs, Turn a square hat by Jared Flood aka Brooklyn Tweed, French Press felted slippers by Melynda Bernadi, Dishcloths/washcloths. And the Sewing projects: Jersey infinity scarf, Pincushion, Mini christmas tree runner.
Christmas in Denmark/Germany
You get to hear about food and gifts and the how and when of German and Danish Chrismasses. Also a bit about the Danish Dancing around the Christmas Tree.
Episode 19: The one where we can’t speak
Welcome to episode 19 – a little late, but long, and hopefully worth the wait!
Find this episode here and on Itunes!
We mention a lot of new members, and we also talk about how lovely it is to hear from you guys – totally makes our day!
Off,on and under the needles:
Off:Tini has finished a pair of felted slippers (the one from the last episode with the 8mm dpns) and that is all knittingwise that she has finished. We talk about the German need for house-shoes, as mentioned in the article How to be German in 20 easy steps.
Maria is going to be teaching a few knitting and sewing classes in the new year and she has been knitting samples for the knitting classes. She also finished the hat she was working on for Sofie.
Sewing was slow for Tini, the only thing she finished was a needle case for knitting needles. She has also been working on the quilt. Maria has made trousers from the new pattern she released – and has been finishing the very detailed instructions. Also she is doing a trouser fit-n-sew-along on her blog, which is also a big project! Besides that, she has been sewing some drape front tops, or waterfall tops as we call them, which are the next pattern to be released.
On and under the needless:
Tini is still working on the boring gray socks for her dad, featuring the sweet tomato heel by Cat Bordhi. The only new thing on the needles is a pair of Knotty Gloves, a free pattern by Julia Müller/Laris Design.
Maria is not knitting actively on anything except samples right now, but she is sewing a bathrobe for Rasmus – her 15 yo son.
Tini traced and cut out the fabric for christmas dresses for the girls, using MiniKrea 20002. In a Christmas red crushed velvet. Which means we are both working on something for our kids – which is very unusual, as none of us really do that normally..
On the horizon
Tini has bought MORE yarn and is planning to knit a Spectra by Stephen West. And she is going to finish the girl’s dresses.
Maria will finish the bathrobe for Rasmus and finish another waterfall top. Also she might be making new pillows (!!) and a christmas apron for her mother.
I’ve got a notion
Tini bought herself a new Ipod touch and is quite smitten! And is absolutely happy, that she now can listen to more Harry Dresden Books
Maria has borrowed a Coverstitch Machine (Bernina 009DCC), which is making her happy.
Other crafty adventures
Tini has finished her Advent Calendar (package by Permin of Copenhagen)
Life in Denmark/life in Germany
We talk a bit about Advent Calendars (including hidden doctor bags), advent wraiths and cookies, esp. the ones that include lard…. I’m still looking for an English recipe, so the link is for a German translation…
We talk about different ways of decorating and if you’d like to see more of a Danish christmas – here’s is a post about Marias typical Danish Christmas two years ago.
Tini actually knows a lot more about Danish cookies than Maria. She makes all kinds of cookies and even met up with friends – without kids – to bake cookies. We also talk about Kollabora.com, where Maria has an account (as MariaDenmark, as always).
Episode 18: The one with Dr. Martens shoes
Find this episode here or here (itunes)
Off the needles
Tini finally has finished her Arcadia Shawl by Janel Laidman from the Sock report, that you are most likely pretty bored with by this point but it is finished blocked and has been worn several times already
The Arcadia shawl
Wollmeise is pretty hard to capture in pictures….
Maria finished the cardigan for her newborn niece, who is called Sofie. The pattern is the Baby boy 5- hour Sweater by Gail Bable
The 5 hour baby sweater (and that’s about right – if you always remember to bring your extra skein of yarn and actually knit on it)
The Scandinavian Baby Cap also was finished by Tini and took up less yarn then expected.
There has been gift knitting and Tini finished two washcloth mittens out of some deep stash cotton yarn.
There’s been progress sewingwise: The Knipmoden trousers are finally done! Now we just need a picture.
Maria has also finished the Jersey-Cover for the breastfeading pillow and a pair of 1 seam baby pants using MiniKrea 10400 It took Maria a wooping 36minutes to finish it.
And the next pair of leather slippers has been sewn by Tini as well.
On and under the needles
Maria is knitting on another Buzzbee hat by Wooly Wormhead.
Knittingwise Tini has picked up the boring gray socks for her Dads Birthday (which is at the beginning of Decembre). Plain vanilla toe up socks using a 6ply light gray Opal yarn.
The only slightly interesting fact about these is the sweet tomato heel by Cat Bordhi, which Tini incoporates into a heel-flap heel. And there’s a pair of felted slippers on the 8mm DPN set, that came with the package of felting yarn Tini bought recently.
When it comes to sewing, Tini is done with the quilting of the quilt of doom and now the quilt just needs a binding and it will be done!
Other crafty adventures
Maria wants to give up buying new clothes in 2013! We mention the Nicole from the Stash and Burn Podcast.
The reason why Tini hasn’t done more sewing or knitting within the last month is, that she is frantically doing counted cross stitch embroidery, so that the Advent calendar for the twins will be ready on Decembre 1st. The Advent calender is a complete package from Permin of copenhagen and features a Jule Nisse.
On the horizon
After purchasing more yarn from a destash, Tini reaaaallly needs to knit more sweaters. She’s dreaming about starting the Briar Rose Tunic by Elisabeth F. Parker from the Winter 2011 issue of Interweave knits out of an Alpaca-wool blend. Tini also mentions her Hallet’s Ledge Also there are the annual christmas dresses that will have to be sewn soon for the twins as well as the winter coat. There’s a mentioning of Ottobre magazine
Maria is drafting a waterfall-neckline top and wants to sew that out of a nice rayon jersey.
Inspired by
Tini’s totally inspired by her friend Ute, who has a gorgeous blog at Suo ergo sum. Also she’s inspired by fall and wants to make all the sweaters NOW.
Maria spend a weekend with patternreview friends in Barcelona and met up with the incredible designer Paco Peralta. She was gifted 2 patterns and is totally inspired by them. Maria also took an interview with Paco, that will air as a bonus episode soon!
I’ve got a notion
Marias favourite notion is a flexible ruler, to get of the right curve for the crotch seam.
Tini’s favourite notion is the Prym Needle twister
Life in Denmark/Life in Germany
We talk about Halloween in Denmark and in Germany
Other stuff we mention
Dr. Martens esp. the Dr. Martens Sylvie shoes.
