Author: Anne-Maj Ling
Anne-Maj Ling was born in the small northern town of Kramfors, Sweden. She did not engage in any handcrafts until after her marriage in 1967 when she learned to spin and dye wool and a neighbor taught her to knit. After a basic course in Two-End Knitting in 1980, it became her favourite technique. Anne-Maj has explored and developed this traditional fabric to achieve exciting new designs and refinements.
Two-end knitting is a unique Scandinavian knitting technique which is well worth preserving and developing. As the word two-end knitting suggests, one knits with two ends of the yarn and one knits "by throwing" in the old way. Both strands are held in the right hand and twisted around each other in the same direction between every stitch. This twisting gives a particularly firm yet flexible character to the finished garment.
