Welcome to a site dedicated to the love of spinning.
About
Bio
I have been knitting since the mid -80’s and spinning since 2011. I specialize in the process from raw wool to a finished textile. I also have a deep interest in different kinds of spindles. I run a spinning blog and post spinning videos on my YouTube channel. I teach intermediate spinning in Sweden and online. I also consider myself a student of spinning – every day I learn something new. I am writing a book called Listen to the wool and write regularly on Substack.
Posts, videos and online courses
In the blog I write mostly about spinning, from both a technical and more of a philosophical perspective. Spinning does so much for me and I like to investigate the spinning process in my blog posts. On Substack I write abot other topics in more of an essay style.
My youtube videos are both instructional and documentary style videos. I hope you find something you like.
In my online school I offer both free and paid courses to intermediate and advanced spinners. Support me if you like on Patreon.
Also check out my Instagram feed and Facebook page.
On Substack I share essay-style writing and some occasional poetry.
Articles and patterns
Every now and then I write for spinning magazines:
- Old techniques and new technology: A beautiful marriage. An article about my video making process. Spin-Off magazine spring 2018.
- Sorting fleeces: A study in Gute and Gotland. In the article I sort and compare fleeces of Gotland and Gute wool. Spin-Off magazine spring 2019
- Twist analysis twined knitting. How twist can be used as a tool in spinning in general and in twined knitting in particular. Spin-Off magazine fall 2019
- Heartwarming mitts. Pattern for twined knitting half-mitts using handspun Z-plied yarn. Spin-Off magazine fall 2019
- Selma Margau. A pattern for a cabled bottom-up sweater with raglan shaping. Spin-Off magazine summer 2020
- The Flick. All about an important pice of the supported spindle spinning puzzle. PLY magazine summer 2020, the supported spindle issue.
- Sliding hooks and textile heritage, article in Spin-Off magazine Autumn 2020.
- Knit (spin) Sweden! Book by Sara Wolf, with me as a co-writer. Get it at Cooperative press in the U.S., Amazon in the U.S., Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Book depository in the E.U., and Adlibris, Akademibokhandeln and Bokus in Sweden. On all the Amazon options you can look inside the book and read the first few pages, including Sara’s and my introductions.
- Cecilia’s bosom friend. Shawl pattern in a tuck stitch structure using two different colour singles spun in different directions.
- Knitting with linen, article in Spin-Off magazine Summer 2024.
Podcasts and interviews
- The livestock conservancy, October 2022
- Folk craft revival podcast, November 2022
- A fiber life podcast, April 2023
- Long Thread Media podcast, May 2023
Blog
Japanese bookbinding
Last weekend my friend Cecilia and I took a 4-hour class in the Japanese bookbinding technique Yotsume Toji. The teacher was Miro Burman, a bookbinder with long experience in traditional Japanese bookbinding in both Japan and Sweden. I consume lots of notebooks in my daily writing practice, and when I stumbled upon a class in …
Substack: I trust my hands
Today I have a new essay for you on Substack, I trust my hands, with an ode to my hands whose superpower is to shape my thoughts in lines squiggly enough for me to understand them. “I have filled page after page of handwriting, because now I trust my hands to craft my mind in …
Substack: Hearts of slöjd
Today I have a new post for you on Substack: Hearts of slöjd. I reflect over the kind and heartfilled conversations that emerge among crafters crafting. ”Making in the company of other makers brings something unique to the surface from deep within the heart. The act of making something in a natural material that is …
Videos
Come visit my YouTube channel! I make videos about spinning and wool processing in both documentary and instructional style.