For Loni Mailler, she sells her knitwear at the Christmas market for the first time in her life

Created: 11/26/2022, 12:57 p.m

By: Christiane Breitenberger

When she knits, she is happy: Loni Mailler sells her things at the Christmas market for the first time in her life.

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The Christmas market season in the district of Dachau has begun.

For the first time in her life, 87-year-old Loni Mailler rents a hut and sells the things she has knitted.

Indersdorf

– Advent means Christmas market time in the district.

Christmas friends can enjoy culinary delights and discover homemade products everywhere.

Every year new stand operators join the traditional ones.

This is also the case this year in Indersdorf.

But in the hut with the number 22 there is no offspring.

At the age of 87, Loni Mailler decided to rent a stall at the Christmas market for the first time in her life.

There she offers the results of her great passion: knitting.

It was mustard yellow, she still remembers that very well today.

Loni Mailler, then still called Baumgartner, was five years old and said to her mum: “I want to be able to do what you can do there too!” So ​​mum showed little Loni how to knit, and she had it before her first day at school made her own table cloth.

In mustard yellow.

Knitting has been her passion ever since.

"It just makes me happy," says the 87-year-old.

"It calms me down." A stressful day?

Loni Mailler knitted.

Someone teased you?

she knitted.

"Everything was always fine after that." Hundreds of individual pieces were created over the years.

Anyone who chats with her in her cozy kitchen-living room will immediately believe her when she says that her doctor recently “estimated her to be in her early 70s”.

It was "always my wish to be able to sell my stuff somewhere," she says.

But so far in her life there has never been the right time.

Again and again she also supported social projects with her embroidery goods, 50 pairs of gloves for Nepal, for years she supplied the BRK with self-knitted things for people in the Ukraine.

Now, because of the pandemic, she's been knitting booties, jackets, scarves and hats again.

"You have to do something, you can't just clean all the time." And because the boxes with the colorful works are now piling up in the hallway, she has made the decision to sell her things this year.

An Advent market is just the thing for your premiere.

The 87-year-old loves the Christmas season. "My home used to look like a Christmas market," she says and laughs.

She just loves it when her family gets together when there's time to gossip.

She now has four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, all of whom are provided with grandma's unique items - and they absolutely love them.

The boys keep ordering new things from her too – exactly what they imagine.

Like back then with the traditional socks for her granddaughter's husband.

It was a completely dead sample, one “that you can actually only find in museums,” she says today and laughs out loud.

But Loni Mailer, with her 87 years, just bites through.

It took her four weeks, then she got the hang of it and her granddaughter's husband wore traditional socks that make others jealous.

"At the folk festival he was immediately asked where there was such a thing," she knows.

By the way, the pattern was called Sauzipfe.

Loni Mailer's things are not only made with a lot of love, they are something for life, if you want it.

When her granddaughter was born, she knitted a baby blanket for her.

The granddaughter is now 41 and a mother herself.

When her boys were babies, she used her grandmother's baby blanket to keep them warm.

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Loni Mailler will sell just such blankets, jackets, slippers and hats in different colors and patterns in hut number 22.

There will also be traditional jackets – “made from good Schachermeier wool”.

She is now madly looking forward to the market on December 3rd and 4th.

Of course, she doesn't want to keep all of her profits - "if there's anything left over, I want to give something to the home club".

She doesn't know yet whether she wants to sell again next year if things go well this year.

Her back, her shoulders, they both bother her, but she doesn't really talk about them.

"Whying isn't going to help!

That doesn't change anything!'

You can find more current news from the district of Dachau at Merkur.de/Dachau.