I'm very passionate by all hand/home made things and knitting is one of my favorite things. I really enjoy it a lot. it's a great way to sit down, channel myself and express my creativity. A few years ago, I just had the urge to knit. I think it was probably an urge to express myself through creating things, to release some of the accumulated stress and tension from the couple of previous years. I have clearly noticed that I really need to let the steam out in one way or another otherwise after a while I have a build up of tension that hasn't been released and it starts to affect me emotionally. If I look back it seems obvious: when I moved to London I stopped photography for a while as I started to work as a campaign coordinator for an Animal Rights organization pretty much 27h a day, 10 days a week. In this job I was under quite a lot of stress and pressure and it was taking so much space in my life and my brain that I didn't have time for anything else, not even for my pregnancy! then I had Thom, stopped working and I was left with a build up of frustration, and that's how I started to immerse myself into cooking. Back then, when Thom was a few months old, that was my way to express myself and be creative. It was also a way to reconnect with love. The love I wanted to offer to my family, the love of food that I had been neglecting... then when Thom was about 1 and half I had this urge to knit so I reached for some knitting needles and some yarn and I started to just knit, knit, knit... my first project was a scarf for Thom :) Now I see knitting as a way to express my creativity but it also reconnects me with a few other things... Through knitting I'm discovering a feminine side in myself that I never allowed to emerge, and I realize that I actually really enjoy making clothes! It also makes me connect with sheep a lot, as I've been spending some time with them lately, and I've asked them what they thought of all this. Their answer was amazing! Our conversation lead me to go down the ecoknitting route. So now I look out for sales on the internet to buy cheap eco friendly organic yarn, I select carefully where I source my animal yarn from (when I can I buy it from my local biodynamic farm, where the wool comes from sheep that I know), and I also look into eco fibers such as organic cotton, hemp or bamboo... I'm also thinking of ways I can re use and re purpose old yarns and clothes. My conversation with the sheep was very profound. In a nutshell, the sheep don't want people to eat them but they don't mind people shearing them as long as it's done ethically, in a respectful way and as humanely as possible. I think I will write an article about this, to share my communication with them :)