Welcome to the Kammebornia podcast, about life in general and knitting in particular
In the Kammebornia podcast we want to invite you to our world
that is full of thoughts, feelings and discussions
caused by the scent of the coffee and the soft peaceful rhythm of the knitting
Kammebornia is our art project as well as our own kingdom
Kammebornia is about our wish that everyone could live in their own fairytale kingdom in this place we call reality
and it is about our wish that everyone could be the king or the queen in their own life
We are Dennis and Pia and we live on Gotland, the island of roses and fairytales in the Baltic sea
We wish for a softer, more kind and warm world
Love and respect, does it have to be so hard?
Without the woolen threads, I get lost
but if I can knit one more row, and one more, I can find my way home again
Through the magic of the threads I take my way through the days and the nights
With a rhythm like the waves and the beating of the heart,
I knit one stitch after the other and one row after the other
at the same time I collect my thoughts and feelings
Welcome back to a new episode of the Kammebornia podcast!
It is autumn here where we live. It is so fascinating to reflect on the fact that it at the same time
is spring in other places
The leaves are falling here and the days are getting shorter
I always think of Thoreau this time of the year, an American author that came to mean a lot to me
already as a teenager. Somewhere he wrote something like:
The monetary wealth is only reserved the few
but the gold of the maples are spread equally to all
I think that is also the true gold
And real wealth is to understand that
This world can be so wonderfully beautiful if we can focus on that
And then we can also better deal with the real problems
Because then we know what we have to protect and care for
If we only focus on the problems, we can only see darkness and misery and we do not get any strength
to build up and share our own energy to the world
If we can understand that we should be constructive and share our energies
instead of being destructive, critisize and take what we want with no thought of others
Then we can get more happiness
Because it is by giving that we can get and only if we can accept the things we can not change
we can get strength and courage to change the things we can and want to change
To carry anger inside is only hurting ourselves
To be stingy and greedy also only falls back on ourselves
We shall be kind to each other and treat others the way we want to be treated
Then we can get a softer world and more people can see the gold in front of them
We have had an intense summer and autumn with lots of nice encounters and jobs
Most things are about knitting and social media
It is such a lovely thing to get a richer life in the so called reality through social media on our screens
Metta is one of our Instagram friends @metta_syrostickar
We have followed each other for a long time and the first time we met we already knew each other
This last summer, she came here and visited us on Gotland
We had a lovely day when we could sit and chat, have coffee and knit together
Another dear friend we have found through Instagram is Susanne, @garden.women
We have met many times, on Gotland, on the Swedish mainland at different places, and even in Scotland
This autumn, Susanne moved to Germany with her family and we look forward to see each other there
Before they moved, she came here to visit us, together with one of her daughters
We had lovely days together, having good food, taking walks, chatting and knitting
It is such a wealth to have friends
Together with each other, we become who we are
And friends can be the family we choose
I love being close to people that I feel good to be close to
Many people on the mainland were wondering what we were going to do on Gotland in November
It was almost as if they thought the island is sinking during winter
That is not the case! I have never loved November so much before, it's so beautiful here during autumn and winter
I love to take windy, misty walks by the sea
and this time of the year, I feel closer to the creation here on our island
everything feels so close and so real
Coffee, talk and knitting
Hello Pia!
Hello!
Hello everyone! Welcome to episode 8!
I will begin by asking you something. Autumn?
What does it feel like?
I love the autumn
But I know it has also been a hard time of the year for you
Ok. I have always loved the autumn, but I have had big troubles with November, the late autumn.
What has November done to hurt you?
Early autumn, with all the leaves and the crispy air, apples and all those things -
no problems, I have always loved that.
no problems, I have always loved that.
There has always been a melancholy feeling around it, because everything passes so quick and
the soft summer is disappearing, and life is like the seasones perishable
I think it is the darkness that comes that has been my enemy
It has been like a symbol of evil
I do not like to get cold
No, of course you don't
I have always been identifying myself with Anne of Green Gables when she says
I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers
Exactly!
But November has been a big problem
I used to use the word November as a curse
Yes, I know, I remember that
I used to wish we could move November and put it in between May and June
Now I wonder how I would ever manage that
I still love May and June but it's enough, but I don't think I would cope more of it every year
It would be to intense and too little sleep, I need some November too
You are like a bear that needs to hibernate
Yes, I need the cycles
There is light and then there is darkness and then there is light again
Otherwise there would not be a balance
Where we live, there are four seasons and I really appreciate that
But I have been struggling a lot to get to like November
It's hard to make it disappear!
Yes, that is what I realised and then I decided to cope with it instead of fighting it
I found it unnecessary to wish my days to go away, I would miss out on much of my own life
I want to be present in my life and enjoy and be grateful for what I have, not be angry for what I do not have
And when I changed focus, I discovered so many lovely things with November
and those were things I have always loved, that was not the problem
The problem was I could not focus on them before but now I learned to do so and I could enjoy it better
Many of the things I did not like with November have disappeared from my life now.
Like go away from home in the morning and come home in the evening to a cold and dark house
Wake children up that do not want to wake up and go away, and the same for myself
I do not want to wake up before I have got enough sleep and especially not when it is cold and dark
Where we used to live, we had to make a fire to keep warm and if we went away from home, the house got cold
Everyone was hungry and tired and cold in a dark and cold house...
It's very nice for us living in this modern society to have central heating
We can go away and do things and come home to a warm and cosy house
But at the same time we loose something, the feeling that someone is at home and keep the fire burning
Yes, the home and the hearth, the fireplace like the heart of the home
Yes, it is important but it has been replaced by something else
But to know that someone is at home and takes care of the home, I like that
That is, if you like you home
Yes, and right now, we do not have a fire place in our home and we miss that, but it is also nice not to be cold
It feels vey luxurious to have central heating
We do not have to fight and struggle to keep warm
But it can also be satisfactory with some form of struggle to keep warm, if you have the time
Yes, that's a fact
Both you and I like to be at home
We are all different and some of us like to be away a lot and others like to stay at home a lot
Then, we have to support ourselves in different ways, that may force us to go away from home even if we
do not like it
Yes, that's right
I am so happy that I can work from home now!
But this thing with the children growing up, I don't know... it's complicated
Sometimes I feel like Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia, Grow back down again!
But of course I am happy that they grow up, I want them to - it's a part of life
It's wonderful that they get their own lives and their own things to do
Stop growing!
Well, I am in a period of melancholy
I am happy that things are like they are, but still, it is so sad that those lovely days never comes back
It is another kind of wonderful now, but I miss November nights in front of the fire place, with the children
all the games and fairytales
Each thing has its time
Yes, you have to cope with that
It's the same kind of balance as with the seasons and the light and the darkness
But do you like November?
Well, I have never had those kind of problems, all the seasons are merging with each other
You have made it more clear to me, to see the changes and the differences
I usually get a small depression both in the autumn and in the spring, because of the change
I don't want it to be cold for example
But for you, that is mostly in the beginning of the autumn, not in November, then you are already adjusted
Yes, when November comes, I am already there and used to the cold and dark days
This was interesting, to talk about the autumn
Yes, and it's both a time for reflection and rest
and at the same time an intense period of work, kind of low impact
I create a lot during this time of the year
There are less visits and less time outdoors and more time for work
So there are many things going on here, concerning my patterns
We have not even had time to present my two latest designs here on the podcast
So, now we are going to show you!
Let's watch!
Bits and Pieces, a little bit of this and a little bit of that
Bits and Pieces is a halfmitten, nice to wear when it's too cold to be without mittens but too warm to wear ordinary mittens
You can still use your hands to knit or whatever you want to do
As we visited Trondheim I was enchanted by the beautiful old town by the river Nidelva
As I came home, I could not stop thinking of the old houses by the water
With the Norwegian yarn I brought home from my visit, I knitted these mittens as a memory from my travels
Precious are all the meetings I had with lovely people in Norway and I will always remember the October walks,
in crispy autumn air among the falling leaves, around the Nidaros Cathedral and through Bakklandet
together with Dennis and Ella
You can find yarnkits for the Trondheim mittens at @knitography in Norway and at @thewoollythistle thewoollythistle.com in the US
Wow! Have you made those?
It went sp fast, I did not realise what happened
No, me neither, especially with the Trondheim mitten, it went so fast
We came home a month ago
I think Trondheim affected you
It was such a lovely place!
Ad I bought this yarn there, a Norwegian yarn
and I love to use Patricia's mitten blockers
She makes them by hand, out of wood from her own farm, close to Trondheim
It is nice in so many ways!
She also makes sock blockers
So beautiful!
And now I am working on new patterns
This is a sneak peak of my sock that is planned to be released in December
A winter sock
And you are working on your Riddari?
Yes, I am, it takes time, but it has to do so
Yes, of course it can take time! It must!
It looks so good!
It will go well together with my blue!
I knitted this blue one to lie ahead in the Riddari knitalong I am hosting this autumn
All the posts in the knitalong can be found on my blog kammebornia.se under the category Riddari knitalong
They are translated into English
This is my second one, and it is going to be a cardigan
You are almost finished
Yes it will be a cropped cardigan
I will cut this steek
I can do that
This is what we are doing right now
Do you know what you want to do after the Riddari? Or maybe you are not there yet?
I am making a hat, from a pattern I got from Sarah @fibertrek
Rob, Sarah's husband has knitted it
We are hoping for them to come and visit us here on Gotland and wouldn't it be nice for me to have that hat then?
Yes, we will look sweet together, for sure!
Now, we will give you some more November
More of November
Dark November days
Glancingly light
A daily reminder of life's beauty and fragility
To light candles, to land
to rest, in the small things, like the buds on the trees
they are resing, waiting for spring sun and the song of the nightingale
and adjacent, the old brown leaves falling
for a short time, they are close to each other on the tree branch,
what is already finished and what is not yet become
cycles and orbits, what and who are we close to?
Wo and what do we want to be close to?
Melancholy, beautiful, fantastic
not taking anything for granted
Now I would like to show some nice yarns that came home with us from Norway
These are plant dyed by hand by Patricia @p4chen
or @knitography
I choose these because I want to make a mitten in the colours from the beach where I love to walk
The sand, the sea, the sky and the grass
It's like you see the mitten on the beach? Imean you get the inspiration there?
Yes, from the nature. And they are plant dyed.
Very lovely!
She has also dyed this red and it felt so "Christmassy"
I am not sure what to make of them but they are nice to squish and enjoy as they are
There is one more yarn that I want to show
I almost never buy yarn without knowing what to use it for
I have a lot of yarn
and I already have many projects going on and even more on my to do-list
But that yarn, maybe you can give it to me?
It is from a yarn shop in Stockholm called Fingerborg
It's a nice place
I can really recommend a visit to Fingerborg if you are in Stockholm, what a place!
Katrin that runs the store is such a lovely person
I love going there and get inspired and feel the warmth
Yarns, embroideries and of course Katrin herself
It is such a cosy atmosphere there
This is a Highland tweed yarn
It was calling for me
I know many people buy yarn even if they do not need it but as I said, it is not something I usually do
I have not decided what to make of this but I it is possible that it can become a Vintersol by Jennisfer Steingass
It is produced in Great Britain right?
Yes, it is!
At first I wanted to make you a sweater in this colour, I think it is perfect on you
Well, now I don't know, but if I have a sweater in that yarn I will match you when you have the cabled sweater
I am almost finished knitting for you, in the yarn from Life long yarns from Scotland
We will see what happens!
We have a giveaway going on for our patrons
We are so glad that so many of you have become our patrons, thank you!
You can read more about this on patreon.com/Kammebornia if you want to know more about this
We are working on more things to share with our patrons
There are really nice prizes to win in the giveaway
Stitch markers and a project bag from @_bed_of_roses
And that is a necklace made by a Swedish girl called @hannas_finheter
This is a beautiful necklace with a picture from an old botanical illustration of Water Avens
We also have 3 copies of Maja Karlssons new mitten book
We also have one copy of our own book, Picknick
All you have to do to participate is to be a patron and share your best ways to make November cosy
There is a mitten I am knitting from Maja's book
I also want to tell about a yarn I have tried from Blacker Yarns, it is called Tor
I guessed it would be perfect for my Wisby mittens and I made a small sample knit
It is very close to the same gauge so it works well for the Wisby mittens!
it is a bit thicker than the yarn I have used before
It is a very cosy yarn
I have also made cables and other patterns
I got this yarn to try it out and I really like it
I guess we can finish our talk here and I will get back with a book recommendation
How nice, thank you for today!
See you soon! Good bye!
Books
1859-1989 there was a textile factory, called Salhus tricotage factory, making knitted fabric in Norway
They knitted fabric that then became sweaters and other garments
This book is inspired by all the patterns on the swatches made in this factory
It is called Ruter og lus and it is in Norwegian with lots of pictures
It contains new patterns inspired by the old swatches
The new garments sometimes have new colours but the same patterns as were being made in the factory
Here are some of the swatches
I find it so interesting reading about textile history
So the book contains both textile history and new patterns for garments inspired by the old patterns
So it is new knitting adventures in a retro mood
One of you viewers of this podcast can win a copy of this book
To have a chance to win this book, just write a comment here below on Youtube where you
share your best knitting memory
Tell us about your best knitting memory! I am thinking of all the moments knitting with my grandmother
I get a bit nostalgic about this book, my grandmother was a seemstress
I carry a lot of textile history with me through her
Now I am curious about your best knitting memories and you can win this lovely book!
Good Luck!
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many of my own patterns are knitted in yarns from Ullcentrum
Järbo has an inspiring site with knitalongs, a blog and other things (mostly in Swedish though)
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