Anu Ahoniemi
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Knitting: Dress
Tuttu juttu is an easy summer dress. You can use your creativity to create it your own!
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
ABA wrap is a classical cabled unisex design, but the construction is modern. The wrap is worked in pieces and it is easy to take along as “handbag knitting” for nomad urban knitters. Despite creating a long wrap, your carry-on project weighs less than 100 grams.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Chic & chaud is an easy classic shawlette which gives you a Parisian Chic look. It is a quick make so you can easily give a fashionable update to your wardrobe with the colours of the season. Choose a light mohair or a silky laceweight yarn for a luxurious feel on skin.
Knitting: Cardigan
Juhlallinen is a simple cardigan with a cropped straight body and a boxy look. It is knit top down in one piece starting from the folded collar. No seaming or steeking is included. Juhlallinen features easy eyelet rows which hide the yoke increases. Double yarnover rows make knitting quick and create a loose and airy fabric with a false lace ef...
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Padot shawl is started from the lower corner. The main body is easy garter stitch and stockinette welts give the shawl a rhythm. After last garter section, the shawl is finished with a double I-cord border. Padot is an enjoyable and mostly a mindless knit. The construction of the welts is explained in the pattern. You could easily make the shaw...
Knitting: Scarf
Kaveri shawlettes are knitted together with a friend. You both choose your favourite colour, and together you knit the yarns into two friendship shawlettes. Your favourite colours will intertwine with each other and warm your heart like a good friendship. You create two shawlettes which are similar in pattern, but like mirrors in colour. Two sm...
Knitting: Scarf
Fat lizard is a hood and a scarf at the same time. It is designed to keep you warm in cold winter breezes when you need to wrap yourself in the warmth of wool. And you could also use it under your bicycle helmet when you need a warm layer to keep you going during the colder months.
Knitting: Pullover
Penger is a warm top down, yoked pullover with feminine details. It fits tightly on waist and has a slightly A-lined hem. The yoke has three welts in contrasting colour. The curved hem is created with short rows and is longer at the back. The neckline, hem and cuffs all have contrasting welts and are finished with a double knitted seam. The sle...
Knitting: Dress
Savi is a long yoked dress in light and airy lambswool, worked top down. It fits tightly on the upper body and lets the hem flow freely with the winds. The coloured yoke part of the neckline is first cast on and knitted upwards in stockinette, with decreases. Working is continued upwards in grey double seed stitch with decreases going on. After...
Knitting: Cowl
Hidas is your cowl when the weather gets colder and you need something to warm up your – or your friend’s – neck quickly. It is knitted from one small skein of luxurious silk blend which caresses the skin.
Knitting: Pullover
This sweater is knit bottom up, starting with sleeves which are then joined with the body. Both the sleeves and the body have a high ribbing to flatter every body, and the sleeves are extra long to give warmth to your hands. The sweater is symmetrical on back and front, no short rows needed here!
Knitting: Pullover
Papula is an easy top-down sweater with short sleeves and is totally seamless. The collar is shaped with some short rows to create a better fit on the neck. It also is very flattering to your body as it has some decreases to mark your waist and an a-shape construction for the hem.
Knitting: Cowl
Harha cowl has a pretty hourglass shape which gets narrower in the middle and wider on both sides. This clever construction creates a cowl which will cover your neck tightly, keeping you warm in the winter breezes. The cowl is slightly assymetrical so you can use it either way.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
Stiplu is an easy shawl and perfect if you hate purling – it is totally knitted and does not contain any purl stitches. You can knit a stockinette shawl with circulars and with no purl stitches! This makes it a quick mindless knit. The tassels decorate the shawl to look festive but you can of course leave them out.
Knitting: Shawl / Wrap
When you just want to knit, knit, knit and you don’t want to think, think, think. This is your option! A cosy shawl which can be knitted in any yarn you just happen to have in your stash lying around. Choose a favourite colour and let yourself go!
Knitting: Pullover
Jopo sweater is designed for cyclers, both male and female. It is knit top down in one piece without seams and has some ease in the body. The sweater features all-round striping where you can play with the colours of your choice.
Knitting: Scarf
This mens’ scarf is a lifesaver for those who tend to lose their scarves. The scarf is knitted in an easy ’knit six, purl six’ –pattern and has I-cord finishing on all edges to keep it neat. It is attached with three buttons to keep you from losing it. You have eight buttonholes so you can vary the position of the scarf around your neck. Choose...
Knitting: Cowl
This cowl is light and airy and filled with lots of champagne bubbles. It takes you on a festive mood even when it is quite chilly. The cowl is quite an easy knit using basic decreases, increases and yarnovers. The knitting might become addictive because of the anticipation of the next bubbles. Choose one skein of your favourite fingering weigh...
Knitting: Ankle Sock
These socks are knitted using the skills and the technique that I learned at school when I was 9 years old, so they could be called very basic Finnish-style socks (just a bit modified during the years…)
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Silmukka beanie is a quick knit and it is perfect to warm your head in the winds. The tubular cast-on makes the edge nice and stretchy and gives it a good fit. The pattern is simple with some increases and decreases which create a fluffy look for the beanie. With only 40 grams of fingering weight yarn, this beanie is a perfect stashbuster!
Knitting: Beanie, Toque
Solmu beanie is an easy knit with a cable in front. It is knitted in DK yarn which will keep you warm even in a colder climate. The beanie can be used in several ways according to your style. Roll it short and show the cable on your forehead or let the tip of the beanie hang loose on your back of your head. The cable will look identical on the ...
Knitting: Legwarmers
These legwarmers bring a touch of french luxury into your everyday with the champagne bubbles in the leg section and the ruffles in the ends. Still, they are warm and practical for a colder weather and a quick knit with one skein of DK yarn.
Knitting: Pullover
A basic sweater knitted in one large size to keep a man warm even in the colder weather.