Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens

The SweetGeorgia Show

This week on the show, Felicia is chatting with Claudia Gossens: the owner of the yarn shop Lanaphilia in Germany. Claudia has a joyful passion and excitement for yarn, fibre, knitting, and colour in everything she does and recently began sharing her experiences on her podcast: Wollinspirationen (available in German only).

It’s always wonderful to be able to chat with yarn shop owners from all over the world so we hope you’ll join Felicia and Claudia for their conversation!

"...the feedback is enormous and I love it, it's just like having a huge amount of good knitting friends." - Claudia Glossens on how her podcast, Wollinspirationen enhances her fibre arts world

In this episode, we talk about:

• 1:20 Claudia's nickname
• 2:31 How Claudia started knitting and how it became such a large part of her life
• 5:05 Knitting over language barriers
• 8:47 Claudia's favourite things to knit
• 9:45 Where Claudia finds inspiration for her knitting projects and her goals to finish before 2019 ends
• 12:45 Does Claudia have any other fibre interests other than knitting?
• 13:35 Claudia discusses her interest in spinning
• 15:21 What Claudia does with all her handspun and the difficulties and fun of blending certain colours with carding and knitting
• 19:00 Learning more about colour and the ones that suit you and bring you joy
• 21:32 How Claudia started running her yarn store: Lanaphilia and her biggest challenges in running a yarn store
• 27:01 Claudia chats about her Lanaphilia works as an online-only yarn store
• 27:45 Felicia asks Claudia about what knitting trends she's finding in Germany and online
• 29:45 Felicia asks Claudia if starting her podcast Wollinspirationen has affected what inspires her.
• 36:42 Where you can find Claudia online
• 37:56 Felicia's Final Notes and Giveaway

Here's Where You Can Find Claudia:

Website: www.lanaphilia.de

Podcast: https://wollinspirationen.de

Instagram: @lanaphilia

Ravelry Group: https://www.ravelry.com/groups/lanaphilia

Enter to win a Copy of the Taurus Shawl Pattern:

Claudia is giving our listeners a chance to win a copy of her pattern: Taurus a triangular shawl that plays with slipped stitches. Thank you Claudia!

Click here to enter the giveaway »

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Thank you all so much for your continued support of our show! Until next time, enjoy colour!

Music Credits:

Playbook of Happiness – by RimskyMusic

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