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.
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.
My youtube videos are both instructional and documentary style videos. I hope you find something you like.
In my online school I offer courses to intermediate and advanced spinners.
Also check out my Facebook page and Instagram feed.
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.
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
Nathalie
Nathalie is the name of the seed variety I use for this year’s experimental flax patch. Today is the day I sow them and think about what I learn from them. Sweet little flax seeds, shaped like almonds, glistening in the sun. The beds in our community garden allotment are ready, soil nutritious, loose and …
Fulling candidates
In just a few weeks my wool traveling club and I will go on our 2024 wool journey to a fulling mill. We have all woven fabrics to full and today I’m presenting my fulling candidates. I love planning our wool journeys. We have planned this one for over two years. On the 2022 wool …
Silk shawl
Last summer I spun a lot of singles silk yarn on a supported spindle. I used the small skeins as dye samples in my experimental dyeing with fresh Japanese indigo and woad. I started a striped weave in January and this week I finished my silk shawl. If you are a patron (or want to …
Videos
Come visit my YouTube channel! I make videos about spinning and wool processing in both documentary and instructional style.