52 Weeks of Easy Knits: Beautiful Patterns for Year-Round Knitting

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For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Nina designed Diamond Twill, a warm and lightweight vest knitted in unspun yarn. Japanese Megumi Shinagawa has been designing knitwear for five years. She is inspired by music, art, vintage fashion and travelling. When Megumi was young, she wanted to become a novelist, and for her, there is something similar in designing knitwear and writing a novel: top-down garments also have their “introduction, twists and turns, and resolution” phases, like those that you can find in a novel. Teti Lutsak is a proud Ukrainian living in the Netherlands. She started knitting to escape from the stress of her PhD life, and later designing became her full-time job. Teti is a botanist and nature inspires her the most. At the moment, her designs are all about romantic shapes, floral colourwork motifs and delicate textures. As a scientist, she also makes sure that her patterns are well-structured and easy to follow. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Ida designed Witre: a warm, oversized vest with high splits at the sides. Evgeniya Dupliy lives in Hanover, Germany, but was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She describes her design style as minimalistic and modern with the focus on shawls. Evgeniya started knitting in 2013 and with time, knitting became more than just a hobby. It is her way of escaping the busy world and recharging energy.

For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Lindsey designed the Fledgling scarf that combines wide and narrow stripes. Maija Kangasluoma is a journalist who lives in Helsinki, Finland with her two kids. She has been knitting since she was a child, and these days she can combine her beloved hobby with her work as the Managing Editor at Laine Publishing. Maija’s favourite knits often feature an interesting stitch pattern, but their structure is straightforward – so once you get going, the knitting becomes meditative and effortless.George Cullen is intrigued by the combination of different materials or different types of yarn. He likes simple textures applied to simple shapes that allow the characteristics of a yarn to shine out. Using leftovers is his forte – George can find creative ways to use even the smallest scrap. George lives in London and works at Knit With Attitude, a knitting shop selling ethical and eco-friendly yarns.

Bernice Lim – also known by her designer name Yamagara – lives in Singapore, where she works as a knitwear designer, art teacher and potter. Bernice often uses yarn as the starting point for her designs and likes to enhance the characteristics of the yarn. She is happiest when she hears knitters say that they enjoyed the knitting process, learned something new or thought that a certain detail in her patterns was clever. Meiju K-P learned her first stitches from her grandmother, and as a teenager, was already designing her own sweaters. Laine Publishing released Meiju’s debut book, Contrasts: Textured Knitting, in spring 2022. Meiju lives in Helsinki, Finland, with her husband and three boys. As a designer, Meiju likes challenges. She is thrilled when a sweater that looks complicated can be turned into a pat­tern that is actually easy to knit. Nina Pommerenke lives in a little town in Southern Sweden with her partner and two girls. Her mom taught her to knit when she was around six years old, but her passion for knitting and designing started when she attended a year-long course where she learned to shear a sheep and process the wool to a finished garment – so magical! Nina is inspired by nature, her family and beautiful yarns. Anna Heino lives in the little town of Hämeenkyrö, Finland and runs her own yarn shop Kässäpuoti. That is also why she ended up designing knitwear: Anna wanted to get good patterns for the Finnish wool yarns that she sells. Anna is inspired by folklore, music, books and movies, as well as beautiful materials and colour combinations. She likes knits that are quite simple to make but at the same time beautiful, well-fitting and wearable. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Natalya designed Knitword: a big, snuggly scarf featuring eye-catching KNIT letters.For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Dami designed Cresta: a triangular shawl featuring Garter Stitch and simple colour ridge sections. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Veera designed Viimein: a scrap yarn sweater that is also featured on the cover of the book. Sidsel Grau Petersen lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She likes to bike everywhere, and sometimes she gets ideas for her designs in the bicycle lane when she sees people wearing nice knits. Inspiration can also come from vintage clothes that have an interesting texture or a detail. Sidsel is especially good at numbers and the technical side of knitting – she can look at almost anything and tell how it is made. Jenny Ansah learned to knit from her grandmother, and still knits with her today. Jenny lives in Helsinki, Finland, where she studies at the university and works as a free­lance knitwear designer, as well as a substi­­­­­­tute teacher in upper and lower secondary schools. She loves comfortable and relaxed garments and describes her style as “earthly and sim­ple with a twist (stitch)”. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Renate designed the Capreoli scarf that invites you to play with colour combinations.

Elise Damstra’s designs come from a passion for knitting and wanting to make items for herself. She loves simple textures and finds constant inspiration in new techniques and yarns. Elise lives in Stavanger on the west coast of Norway. Lindsey Fowler became a knitter and a knitwear designer after the birth of her twin boys. She wanted something she could work on in the nursery – and also needed an identity outside of motherhood. Lindsey lives in northeast Ohio, USA. She loves intuitive knitting that has easy-to-memorise repeats. Her first knitwear book Salt & Timber was published by Laine Publishing in autumn 2022. In this blog post, we have gathered links to some useful videos to help you get started. Watch and learn! Casting on StitchesFor 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Rebekka designed the Kreuzberg slipover that features wide stripes in seven colours. Weeks of Easy Knits offers you knitting inspiration for years to come – the only difficult thing is deciding what to knit first!

For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Tuuli designed the Viikka hat whose 3D look is created with changing ribbing sections. This method uses three needles for seaming live stitches, for example at the shoulders of a sweater.For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Tiina designed the Marshmallow balaclava knitted with two strands of yarn held together. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Isabell designed two patterns: the Juttu cardigan and the Helmi sweater. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Teti designed Funky Turtle: a relaxed, cute pullover worked from the top down. Renate Kamm lives in San Diego, USA and has been knitting for more than 60 years. For her, crafting is a part of life and a puzzle to be solved. Renate’s designs are aimed at teaching knitting skills: it might be a new cast-on technique for a beginner, or a new stitch pattern for the advanced knitter. She is always looking for new ways to simplify a complicated project, and then share it with other knitters. For 52 Weeks of Easy Knits, Erin designed Poseidon Ridge: a classic triangle shawl that’s engaging and easily memorised.