Kindling your imagination: A small road in the countryside - leading your vision beyond the horizon.
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| Countryside |
Buying yarn has something to do with having a vision. It is an exciting and rewarding experience, mind-stretching and nerve-racking at the same time. One visualizes the existing stash, colors, textures, quantity, suitability... The very probability of actual use takes second place to desire for more. We split our personality into two, one on the outside, giving us as much positive feed as we want, and one on the inside, the reality person, reasoning, weighing the pros and cons of the potential purchase, but also soberly searching for excuses to add to a vast existing stash and so forth.
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| Doesn't this wrap's shape and strong neon-line colors set your fantasy in motion? |
Then there is the lure of the yarn's presentation! We perceive not just skeins, cones or hard core balls, we visually caress Hankenskeins, and yes!
CAKES and donut balls! See these and more in
this illustration (Interweave). Various known and unknown gadgets cast their spell on us and our credit card. A
Nostepinne (Wickeldorn, Ball Winder)
in various new versions, incredibly easy-to-handle
Bamboo Curved Needle Sets for socks, hats and loops, a true must-have for a dedicated sock or cowl knitter... Dream on, knitters and yarn fanatics!
This wrap created itself in my hands last winter (2016-2017). The meanderings are the opposite to straight lines, back and forth they rise and fall and add peaks and valleys to the structure. Smaller glossy beads and heart-shaped buttons in green, black and purple will catch the eye when the wrap is worn and thus becoming alive. It is a gift for Hélène, our Parisian family member, and - true to proverbial expectations - a très chique and beautiful Parisienne, wearing the wrap with great aplomb
(Glitzy freeform wrap / scarf for Hélène)
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| Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis |
Photographs copyright Valerie Mader + Ute Mader
