Versatilely creative, creatively successful – with the workshops of h+h cologne 2022

This workshop was based on a new product line developed by Olga Prinku: Flowers on Tulle Embroidery Kits. Olga guided participants to create a 6-inch embroidery hoop design with dried and preserved plants. She explained how to prepare the embroidery hoop, attach the flowers to the tulle fabric and create a balanced design with six types of dried flowers in pink, white and blue.

Olga Prinku is an artist, maker and the creator of the craft of flowers-on-tulle embroidery. Her first book, Dried Flower Embroidery: An introduction to the art of flowers on tulle, was published in 2021. Born in Moldova and now living in North Yorkshire, UK, Olga studied graphic design and was inspired by her hobbies of wreath-making and knitting to create the new craft of embroidering with dried flowers. Olga has collaborated with brands including Anthropologie and Swarovski, and been exhibited at festivals and galleries including the Aga Khan Centre’s Making Paradise exhibition. Her work has been featured in a wide range of print magazines and on TV.

In order to be able to offer the right products and tailor the presentation and decoration to the customers, you have to know them. Are there perhaps commonalities among customers? What is important to them, what do they like, what distinguishes them? Here, different style types were worked out in small collages using pictures and keywords and thus these profiles were visualised.

Gabriela Kaiser studied textile technology with a focus on design and subsequently worked for 6 years as a knitwear designer for women's fashion in the industry. She has been self-employed with her TRENDagentur since 2002, since then scouting trends in the entire lifestyle sector and dealing with customer wishes and needs. She advises industry and trade on trends, gives lectures at trade fairs and regularly writes trend articles for trade magazines.

Birgit Fischer is a creative, cologne and carnival designer. She has been selling self-sewn and designed costumes under her label "Lieblingskostüm" since 2017. She rounds off her portfolio with matching hats, caps and fascinators. She attaches great importance to originality and uniqueness of her creations.

The course showed beginners how they can present themselves, their products or their shop most successfully on Instagram. The latest tips & tricks for 2022 are included.

Susi Strickliesel/Susanne Ortner is "Germany's coolest knitter" according to a major women's magazine. Since 2012 she has been running her own knitting label and not only makes celebrities happy with her creations. Susi loves social media (@susistrickickliesel) and as an influencer she fills her popular profiles daily with knitting/DIY, musicals/live entertainment, lifestyle and takes her followers into her life as a musicalcaster. In the field of knitting she cooperates with high-quality partners like Vogue Knitting. Through various portraits and interviews in the print media (e.g. Bild der Frau) as well as on TV (e.g. WDR) she is also known to a wide audience outside the DIY niche. Since 2019 her book "Knit happens" is available in bookshops, giving a lot of tips, e.g. for social media.