Family Threads is a short film I animated and fabricated with music composed by Katrina Rushing and narration by multiple of my own family members. I created this film for the opportunity to hear more about my family. I wanted to create a film that serves as a love letter to my family members, both old and young, and that depicts Icelandic culture as communal and inviting. As my Icelandic is not fluent enough to interview my family members, I sent my mother, who is the interviewer throughout the film, to Iceland for the goal of collecting as many stories as she could. In the end, she recorded anecdotes from my grandfather, great-uncle, great-aunt, and a few family friends. Together, they told stories from their childhoods in the 1940s and 1950s in Iceland. I set out to recreate these stories with stop motion animation using a medium Icelanders hold dear, wool. Wool is a staple in Iceland's culture. The wool is used to create our traditional sweaters, Lopapeysa, and lamb is eaten by nearly everyone there. Some of the family members in the film also lived and worked with sheep their whole lives on their farms. In the film, all appearances of yarn are real, authentic Icelandic yarn.