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A Bit About Sönna & Wool and Wyrd
Hi! I'm Sönna
Living in rhythm with the seasons, I am inspired by the land around me and find joy in sharing, working, and growing together in community.
Wool & Wyrd was born from this passion. I am proud to create well written patterns that help makers find their own connection to the rhythms of the seasons, the land, and their lives while creating together in community.
Constantly creating, my medium is whatever is before me: be it with wool, school lessons, scrap paper, grocery lists and dinner menus, alters, sketch book and fancy pencils or napkin and random pen, or even rocks and sticks in the driveway.
I'm also a nursing student on the path to become a certified nurse midwife.
Oh, and I love rainbows.
Wool & Wyrd
Creating The Fabric of Our Lives
Wyrd is the fabric of our lives.
Some describe it as fate or destiny, but it’s more dynamic than that because we’re the weavers (or knitters or crocheters). In Norse mythology, the Norns spin the threads of our lives. We don’t get to choose the fiber the thread is made of or when the thread will be cut, but we do get to choose what we make with it. What we create? That’s the wyrd.
Wool & Wyrd honors our creative capacity and inherent power to shape our lives stitch by stitch, weaving connection, intention, and meaning into the fabric of our days.
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"The Norns" by Hermann Hendrich created in 1906
Things I Love
my boys
my man
my kitties
my pup
rainbows
the Boreal Forest
the Grand Mothers in my life
running and using my body to do hard things
my yarn stash
the wool shoppe
the first time I see my breath in the chilled air each fall
the first time I play outside without my coat each spring
the first cup of coffee in the morning
how quiet the house is before anyone else is awake
my Sistas
chocolate
good snuggles
And then there is the yarning...
My Great Grandmother taught me how to crochet at the age of 7 and I was instantly addicted.
Over the years the urge to feel yarn moving over my fingers has brought me in and out of yarn obsessed phases of my life.
I finally decided in the fall of 2008 that I was going to knit and that was that.
Well, that became this:
I DON’T EVER WANT TO STOP.
I'm sure many can relate: I will stay up way too late and wake up too early, I knit at the drive-through while waiting for my coffee, I have knit in the grocery line, but I try to resist the urge to knit at stop light while driving.
If it looks as though I am staring at your shoulder way to hard, don’t be creeped out, I’m trying to figure out the stitch pattern on your sweater