• Dörte Hansen
• Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Emily St. John Mandel
• Louise Penny
• Jennifer Egan

• Hergé
• Jamie Hewlett
• Paul Grist
• Posy Simmonds
• Taiyo Matsumoto
• Naoki Urasawa

• Edward Gorey
• Chris Riddell
• Jon Klassen
• Chris Sickels (Red Nose Studio)

• Fargo
• Olive Kitteridge
• The Umbrella Academy
• Pulp Fiction

• Kreuzanschlag
• Glatt rechts
• Kraus rechts (garter stitch)
• Perlmuster (moss stitch)
• Abketten
• Zusammennähen

• Peter Aurisch
• Hannah Willison
• NEO tattoos
• Expanded Eye
• tarmasz
• noon
• Kelly Violet
• Gakkin

• A series of unfortunate events
• Anne with an E
• Beau Séjour
• Bloodline US
• Broen
• Downton Abbey
• Game of Thrones
• Grace and Frankie
• Happy Valley
• Mad Men
• Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
• Olive Kitteridge
• Pushing Daisies
• Sense8
• Shameless US
• Sherlock
• Six feed under
• Southland
• Stranger Things
• The Affair
• The Killing US

• David Foster Wallace
• Edvard Munch
• Ernest Hemingway
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Jack London
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Marilyn Monroe
• Sylvia Plath
• Vincent van Gogh
• Virginia Woolf

• Nnedi Okorafor

Honorable Mentions:

• Fatma Aydemir
• Ewald Arenz
• Becky Chambers
• Daniel Schreiber
• Kate Beaton

• Addi (German, own needles, Made in Germany)
• ChiaGoo (own needles)
• HiyaHiya (US, own needles)
• Ito (yarn manufacture, own needles)
• KnitPro (own needles)
• Lana Grossa (yarn manufacture, needles from knitpro and others)
• Lykke (US?, own needles, Made in Nepal fair trade)
• Pony (Indian, former UK company, own needles)
• Prym (German, own needles and from knitpro)
• Wolle Rödel (chain-store and yarn manufacture, needles from knitpro)

• Rinus van de Velde
• Seth Armstrong

• Bergere (F)
• Filcolana (DK)
• Isager (DK)
• Knitting for Olive (DK)
• Lana Grossa (D)
• Lang Yarns (CH)
• Rico Design (D)
• Rowan (UK)
• Sandnes Garn (N)
• TOFT (UK)
• we are knitters (E)
• Wool and the gang

• Alison Brie
• Amanda Peet
• Ana de Armas
• Anya Taylor-Joy
• Aubrey Plaza
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Christina Ricci
• Elizabeth Olsen
• Emilia Clarke
• Florence Pugh
• Frances McDormand
• Greta Gerwig
• Helen Mirren
• Imogen Poots
• Jennifer Connelly
• Judi Dench
• Keira Knightley
• Lauren Tsai
• Maggie Smith
• Megan Fox
• Michelle Williams

• Airin
• Charlie
• Erin
• Evangeline
• Gail, Gale
• Hunter
• Louisa
• Mitch
• Quinn
• Rue
• Sierra
• Solvej, Solveig
• Tekla
• Vivian
• Sasha
• Kim

• Frederik
• Gabriel
• Henry
• Joseph
• Kenneth
• Linus
• Milo
• Phoebus
• Rémi
• Rinus
• Ruben
• Theis
• Tinker
• Titus
• Valentin
• Vincent
• Kim

• ✔ to live in a city, which has good public transportation system or bicycle tracks
• ✔ to live in a city where things are in walking distance
• ✔ finish my Master's degree
• live on a houseboat or in a house at a lake
• or live in the countryside, in the woods
• ✔ have a flexibel workplace (home office, thanks Corona)
• get a rescue dog

Learn

• to play an instrument (in progress)
• to dance (on hold)
• Sign Language
• Japanese (in progress)
• to sail
• ✔ to row
• ✔ programming
• ✔ to knit

• Hong Kong
• Singapore
• Japan
• Peru
• Argentina
• Minnesota
• Iceland
• Rapa Nui

• change of seasons
• dew in the morning
• vanilla
• coffee beans
• bedrucktes Papier
• frische Bettwäsche
• Lavendel
• air after rain
• fresh mowed grass

• Politikens Boghal, Copenhagen
• MARUZEN Marunouchi, Tokyo
• Tsutaya Books Daikan-yama, Tokyo

DK:

• Petite Knit (Mette Wendelboe Okkels)
• Knitting for Olive
• Isager (Marianne und Helga Isager)
• Åse Lund Jensen
• le knit (Lene Holme Samsøe)
• My Favourite Things (Louise Rasmussen)
• Susie Haumann
• Lia Lykke
• Sus Gepard

• Fargo
• Olive Kitteridge
• Riverdale

Like:

• Hifumi - babe
• Yusuke - partner in crime
• Sojiro - guardian
• Iwai - older brother
• Shinya - little brother
• Ryuji - brother from another mother

Don't care:

• Ann
• Haru
• Yoshida
• Ohya

Hate:

• Makoto - dominatrix
• Takemi - tease
• Futaba - annoying little sister
• Kawakami - MAID
• Chihaya - a voice like an untuned violin
• Mishima - famewhore

• Adrien Brody
• Anton Yelchin
• Christian Bale
• Clive Owen
• Colin Hanks
• Dan Stevens
• Dean Martin
• Diego Luna
• Ewan McGregor
• Gary Oldman
• Harry Lloyd
• James Stewart
• Jeff Bridges
• Jeff Daniels
• John Cusack
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Lee Pace
• Matthew Broderick
• Robert Redford
• Ryan Gosling
• Will Smith

• ✔ Hygrometer
• Smoothie Maker
• Bettwäsche
• ✔ Nähmaschine
• ✔ Bodenvase
• ✔ Brotmesser
• ✔ Käsehobel
• Waffeleisen
• ✔ Stapelbare Vorratsdosen (z.B. Emsa)
• ✔ Brotbox
• Topf für Zwiebeln und Knoblauch

• alphabetical by Authors
• by colour of the spine (rainbow)
• by colour (into a pattern)
• by colour (wrap the books in identical paper)
• by genre
• by size
• put the spine to the wall, so that just the book block is visible
• put the book covers in front
• chronological (good for history or art books)
• autobiographical (in order when you read them)
• in stacks (physically better for books)
• by number of pages
• by favourite titles
• by language
• by feeling/moods