I have been knitting since forever. There is actually a picture of me knitting a sweater in my aunt’s summerhouse garden in Austria. I was twelve. After that, I have been knitting in periods. The latest\u00a0period has lasted over 15 years so far.<\/p>\n
In 2011 I was talking about knitting with my friend Anna. She told me that most \u00a0of the wool in Sweden is wasted because no one wants it or knows how to take care of it. And I couldn’t have that. I found a weekly class at \u00d6verj\u00e4rva g\u00e5rd<\/a> in Stockholm and Anna and I started to learn how to spin on a drop spindle. A “beginner” spindle, weighing about 90 g and with a shaft not very unlike a broom handle. I wasn’t very good at it, Anna quickly got a nice and even thread but mine was mostly involuntarily thick-and-thin. But I practised.<\/p>\n After a few weeks I asked if I could try a spinning wheel. I could, and I really enjoyed it. After another few weeks, I dived into heaps of bunched-up Polish weekly magazine pages on the living room floor and delivered my very first spinning wheel, a Kromski Symphony. And we’ve the\u00a0best of friends ever since.<\/p>\n A few years later, I started visioning a film featuring all the steps from fleece to sweater. While planning the film project, I started thinking about drop spindling again. It would look so good on camera. So I bought a few drop spindles and started practising again, and this time I really enjoyed it. And a video\u00a0was eventually published, Slow fashion \u2013 from sheep to sweater\u00a0(Swedish title Slow Fashion \u2013 fr\u00e5n f\u00e5r till tr\u00f6ja<\/a>).<\/p>\n