My name is Thea Dam Søby.
I live in Copenhagen with my husband, Leif, and our sons, Magnus and Felix.
We live 5 km from Copenhagen City Hall, and still get to enjoy having lovely garden, 2 cats and for the movement 4 chickens (we have an on going controversy with a local fox, who thinks we are supplying him with fresh dinner!)
In the vacation and the long weekends we leave Copenhagen to go to our magical house in Sweden. Its a 3 hour long drive to the big forest, the silence and the open sky.
My swedish grandmother, Birgitta, bought the house in 1966 and my sister and I inherited it in 2000.
The craft
I have been knitting since my 6th birthday.
I wished to learn and my fathers wife, gave me yarn and needles and taught me to knit. What a gift! Somewhere along the way I added crochet skills, sewing, textile printing and more.
Actually I love craft and textile so much that I got an education as a craft teacher and designer. A wonderful combination, cause I love sharing my passion and my skills to others.
Scandinavian Knit
I love knitting, I love Scandinavia and I love storys.
My grandmother, Birgitta, was a very special woman, and I got to spend a lot of time around her growing up. She would make a table it she needed one. Fix the garden, give you some yarn for Christmas and a promise to knit a sweater.
She would tell me about her mother, Ester, her aunt Lisa, about her grandmother Anna. The almost came to live in her words.
In the house in Sweden I found a box on the attic with my mothers handwriting “The Craft museum in Abrahamshult”.
It turned out to be a box of textiles made by my great grandmother, her sister and mother with small notes telling the story behind it. What a treasure!
So here on this page I will tell you about Scandinavia, craft and people.
And more?
Yes, I can’t help sharing pictures of flowers, the animals and other things that makes me smile, but in my life I also experienced my mothers early dead, serious illness of both my sons. I have been suffering from stress and depression, and mental health is a big concerns to me.
You will be able to find it all with me.
Feel free to reach out to me, tell me about you and your story.
Yours,
Thea
Birgitte
Nice blog you have. Have to recieve your newsletter for inspiration.
Thea
Thank you 🙂
Iman Martel
HI Thea,
I am trying to buy knitting needles from Jans Wanell but am having a hard time because I live in the US. Do you have any suggestion of how I might be able to get them?
Thanks!
Iman
Tina F
Thea I can personally attest to knitting and a very particular superior diet combination having healed my depression and many other traumas and abuses recently.
Spending this past July & August summer in unusually hot & sunny Copenhagen helped heal my downward attitude also. Wish I came across your website sooner to have met you there. Perhaps next summer 🙂
I’d love to email you personally regarding help with knitting, can you share your email? I’m unable to find it on your website.
Warm wishes
Tina