After years of dreaming, planning and saving money I went back to school last year. I’ve found a course that combines my nerdiness with my love for textiles: I’m now on my way to becoming a textile engineer! One semester down, this far we’ve had courses in knitting and weaving (and lots and lots of math).
In knittning class we’ve learned to use both hand knitting machines and big industrial ones, and in weaving class we’ve worked with several kinds of weaving looms. And I love it, especially the labs. It’s not often that school is so fun you forget the time. 
A sample of what I’ve been doing:
Owls from an old cross stitch book that me and my lab partner modified to work as a weaving pattern. The owls are about 2 cm wide.
A knitted skull fabric I made on one of the big circular knitting machines. Each skull is about one cm high. (I put the coin there to show the scale, and only afterwards realized that it’s probably not so useful if you don’t use Swedish money and know how big it is. )
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wow. I am so insanely jealous!! The looms look like so much fun. I got offered one once but we couldn’t fit it in the car and I was quite devastated.
Love the owls. Made anything out of your fabric yet?
xox
That’s my kind of school, though I’m not sure about the lots of math part…
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Yes, the machines at school are amazing. They even have knitting machines that can knit metal wire!
I’m sorry to hear about the missed loom opportunity. I’ve got a hand weaving loom in storage that I haven’t got room for and that is bad enough! Wasn’t there any way to get it home?
I haven’t had the heart to cut either of the fabrics up, to be honest. Don’t know if I’ll be able to.
where are you attending school and how can we find out about this program??
thanks….
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Epic! (Vilken skola har detta?)
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It’s the textile engineering program at the Swedish School of Textiles.
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