by Thea | Feb 12, 2015 | Knitting, shawl, Storytelling
Knit like a fairy godmother or why I call the shawl Oxygen To me a shawl means warmth, comforting and protecting. A way you can embrace yourself with love and support. This shawl is dark in top – dark and neutral, you are protected and invisible. The lower part...
by Thea | Feb 7, 2015 | Knitting, Pattern, shawl
– a beginner knitting tutorial “I can tell you – it’s a wonderful shawl” quote Miss Fluffy This beginner shawl pattern is made with inspiration from the traditional Faroese shawls. WARNING: New technical term may occur. Don’t...
by Thea | Feb 1, 2015 | Knitting, shawl
I have always dreamt about shawls, huge, warm, beautiful and handmade. I knitted my first two shawls in 2000. In a week in february and a week in june, both of them to keep my hands working while I was in grief. The first shawl was very warm, not that huge and not...
by Thea | Jan 28, 2015 | Greenland, Sustainable knitting, Yarn
Softer than cashmere and warmer than wool… Sounds like the beginning of a knitting fairy tale. I first lay hands on the fiber in a yarn shop in Copenhagen. I was looking for something special to knit for myself – just looking and willingly to fall in love....
by Thea | Jan 24, 2015 | Handdying, Sustainable knitting, Yarn
It has been snowing to night. Somewhere in the Danish countryside a clothesline looked like this in the morning. It means that Louise Schelde Jensen and Anne Støvlebæk Kjær, the women behind (G)-uld, was doing their magic yesterday: Hand dyeing alpaca wool. I have...
