Tabea Katharina

Travel Diary: Vienna, Once More (Coffeehouses & Shopping)

By: tabeakatharina November 15, 2019November 12, 2019

Life, Sewing, Shopping, Travellingart, cakes and pies, home and deco, jewelry, retro and vintage, second hand, sweatersLeave a Comment

Welcome to the second part of my Vienna travel diary! You can find the first part here and the post with my initial plans for this trip here. This post is about cake, second hand shopping and two huge splurges! LET ME HAVE CAKE If you visit Vienna, you obviously have to go to the…

Firebird WIP

By: tabeakatharina November 11, 2019November 12, 2019

Knittingcashmere, crafting accessories, lana grossa, socks, the enchanted soleLeave a Comment

I’m making slow progress on my Firebird socks. As a reminder, this pattern is from the book The Enchanted Sole by Janel Laidman. It’s gorgeous and very intimidating. I’m still on the leg of the first sock, and I’ve been working on it for two weeks! First things first: I gave up on using the…

Travel Diary: Vienna, Once More (Food & Culture)

By: tabeakatharina November 8, 2019November 8, 2019

Culture, Travellingart, art history, food, history, museums & exhibitions, travel diary, travelling, vienna2 Comments

I’m back from Vienna! It was a great trip. I managed to balance work and free time well: I photographed every document I wanted in the archive, and still had ample time to explore the city! I’m not sure if anyone is interested in this, but this is how my workspace looked in the archive.…

Winterizing

By: tabeakatharina November 4, 2019October 26, 2019

Gardeningflowers, herbs, roof garden, winterizingLeave a Comment

I’ve slowly winterized our terrace garden over the past few weeks, even though it makes me feel sad to say goodbye. 😦 I’ve harvested the last tomatoes and chilis, pulled out the annual plants (mostly flowers, the tomato and chili/pepper plants, some herbs), and planted a few winterproof plants and bulbs for spring. Now it…

November WIP

By: tabeakatharina November 1, 2019November 12, 2019

Knittingcrafting accessories, DROPS, kim hargreaves, lana grossa, socks, sweaters, the enchanted sole4 Comments

I have a nemesis. It’s this sweater. It’s a pattern by Kim Hargreaves called “Calm”. I’m, sadly, not calm when it comes to this project! I’m extremely annoyed. Years ago, this was supposed to be the first piece of clothing I’d knit. I bought white mohair yarn, got to knitting, then gave up because turns…

How many books are too many?

By: tabeakatharina October 28, 2019October 26, 2019

Readingbooks1 Comment

If you had asked me that a couple of years ago, my answer would’ve been clear: there can never be too many books! Right now, however, I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed by the amount of books in my possession. When we moved into our apartment, Phil fulfilled one of my long-time wishes: a wall of bookcases.…

Vienna here I come!

By: tabeakatharina October 25, 2019October 24, 2019

Knitting, Life, Sewing, Thrifting, Travellingtravelling, vienna7 Comments

I’ll be heading to Vienna soon to do another round of archival work for my thesis! As always, I’m trying to make plans for activities when I leave the archive in the late afternoon/evening. From experience, it gets rather depressing just going from my hotel room to the archive and back again every day. This…

Seedlings, made with yarn

By: tabeakatharina October 21, 2019October 20, 2019

Knittinghats2 Comments

A few years ago I decided I needed to curtail my accessories knitting, because I already have so many hats and scarves. But sometimes, knitting a hat hits the sweet spot in just the right way, you know? Especially if you had to temporarily put away another, larger project. This is why I went to…