Tabea Katharina

Sunday walks in the countryside

By: tabeakatharina July 8, 2019July 7, 2019

We took a Sunday walk to the new observation tower near our town. There’s a hot debate regarding its design, usefulness, and construction costs raging here, but we’ll leave the local affairs out of this blog post. I actually quite like the light wooden lattices on its walls, and think it’s a fitting piece of…

Abloom

By: tabeakatharina July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

Gardeningflowers, herbs, roof garden, tomatosLeave a Comment

A lot has changed in our roof garden since my last post! As you might remember, we were overrun by diverse pests like fungus gnat larvae and Greenhouse whiteflys (and greenflys, and leafhoppers … 2019 hasn’t been kind to our gardening ambitions). I killed most of them using nematodes and neem oil, but not every…

July Works in Progress

By: tabeakatharina July 1, 2019June 26, 2019

Knitting, Sewingburda, cardigans, dresses, gertie, kim hargreaves, lamour dress, retro and vintage, tops2 Comments

This summer’s been heating up over here, and I’ve been a bit lazy crafting-wise because of the temperatures. To be honest, I haven’t touched my Sage cardigan in weeks! I did however finish two sewing projects. I finished the Lamour dress in time for the Rock’n’Roll Weekender in Walldorf, and proudly wore it. Sadly, I…

A pest infestation and climbing plants

By: tabeakatharina May 10, 2019

Gardeningflowers, herbs, roof garden1 Comment

We’ve suffered a bit of a setback in our herb gardening. Some of the plants got sick! Phil googled it after he saw some sort of insect on the leaves, and he says it was probably a Greenhouse whitefly. We’ve been treating the plants with neem oil for two weeks now. They’ve been better (I…

May Works in Progress

By: tabeakatharina May 6, 2019

Knitting, Sewingcardigans, cotton, dresses, DROPS, gertie, kim hargreaves, lamour dress, retro and vintageLeave a Comment

I’ve been planning to knit Sage by Kim Hargreaves in DROPS Belle ever since I bought the yarn for it in spring 2017. It’s been sitting in my stash for two years. Well, actually, I knitted the first row about a year ago, but found the pattern too complicated for my mood back then (which…

April Books: I’m on a mystery binge

By: tabeakatharina May 3, 2019

Readingbiography, books, books 2019, crime and thriller, history, non-fiction, politicsLeave a Comment

14) Friedrich Ebert. Parteiführer, Reichskanzler, Volksbeauftragter, Reichspräsident, Peter-Christian Witt I recently got accepted for a stipend from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (which I’m so happy and grateful for, because I struggled being unable to contribute my share financially before). The foundation sent me this biography together with the stipend agreement. Friedrich Ebert is the first…

44 patches!

By: tabeakatharina April 26, 2019April 22, 2019

Knittingblankets, home and deco, socks, stash-bustingLeave a Comment

I haven’t written about my sock yarn blanket in years, even though I’ve steadily added to it. I started the blanket (pattern here) in 2012 in order to use up my leftover sock yarn. Here‘s my first post about it. Above is one of the pictures I took when writing for the second time about…

My new favourite cookbook

By: tabeakatharina April 22, 2019April 26, 2019

Baking, CookingBaking, books, cakes and pies, chicken, pasta2 Comments

For my birthday in January, I got my new favourite cookbook! It’s called Ekkeharts Kochbuch (Ekkehart’s Cookbook) and is a rare collectors’ item with only two copies in the entire world. My Dad is the cook in our family. He’d make sure I got a homecooked meal every day when I was a child. On…