About me

I am a proud mother of five amazing children. An avid cloth diaper enthusiast and educator and a passionate knitter. When I am not working or spending time with my family, I am knitting. I spend all my free time talking about cloth diapers or knitting. Thinking about knitting - or thinking about yarn.

For the most of my adult life I have been travelling and living abroad with my family, living in two different continents and four different countries + living full time on a sailboat for a few months.

I knit in the car, on the plane, while sailing, while watching the television or listening to an audiobook, while sunbathing, in the movies and in many other places. Having five children means that I use all the extra time I possibly can, to knit.

I first learned to knit at around age 10. It was mandatory in elementary school as a part of arts&crafts class. The assignment was to knit potholders as a present for our parents. Two potholders, meant a knitted square piece of fabric times two! Knitted in a simple pattern of knit and purl stitches on long double pointed needles. If memory serves me right we had a couple of months to knit the pair. I felt the assignment was terrible. I was a bit of a perfectionist and had to frog (unravel) it so many times, that after 6 rows of funky stitches the art teacher felt so bad for me that she took the assignment home and knit one potholder for me overnight. I swore to myself that if I’d ever knit again I would do things differently. Needless to say that I took a break from knitting for a few years.

When my first child was born I decided to take up knitting again as I wanted to knit her all the sweaters, mittens and hats I could think of. Living in Iceland means that you wear a Lopapeysa or another knitted wool sweater almost daily all year round. This was before social media so when I took up knitting again I had some amazing women in my life guiding me through as I learned knitting again. That year I made sweaters, dresses, hats, mittens, wool socks, dishcloths and wool nursing pads.

For the last 17 years I have been knitting daily. I usually knit by heart or knit Icelandic Lopapeysa, both for friends and family and by order. I have been self drafting patterns for many years
and helping others interested in knitting, reading and understanding patterns. Always with the dream in my heart that I would publish my own patterns at a later date and teach interested people to knit. Even opening up a little yarn store or knitting café one day.

Forward to this day, when I am finally letting my dream come true.
Please stay with me and see what is in the pipes.

Please feel free to reach out to me if you think I can help you learn to knit. If you are interested in learning, don't give up, even if your first project doesn’t go your way. Keep trying! I even bit the bullet and decided to knit a pair of simple potholders again this year.

All the best.