Sari Nordlund
Sari Nordlund is a professional knitwear designer from Finland. Her work has been published in many of the prestigious knitting magazines, such as Laine magazine, Pom Pom Quarterly and Amirisu. Sari has also worked as a freelance designer for leading yarn companies, including Woolfolk and Brooklyn Tweed. Sari’s book ”Softly – Timeless Knits“ came out in October 2023 and it has been an instant bestseller.
Sari’s designing work is inspired by Scandinavian minimalism and Nordic nature. She loves to create timeless classics and brings her love for contemporary Scandinavian design into her knitting patterns. Sari loves knitting cables and all kinds of textured stitches using rustic natural fibers in neutral colors, but doesn’t shy away from color work or lace either. Her most popular knitting patterns are the Laulu shawl, the Poet sweater, the Kuutar pullover and the Seleste pullover.
Workshops:
Sari offers four workshops in English.
Workshop(s) of Sari Nordlund
Sari Nordlund: Creating your own cables
Learn to create own cable patterns, the arrangement of cables to create fisherman style cable designs, combining cables, adding texture and creating new cable designs from scratch.
- Day:
- Sunday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Language:
- English
- Price:
- 129,00 € incl. VAT
Sari Nordlund: Poetry Pullover
Learn the techniques you need to knit an own Poetry pullover. We will prepare a swatch, where you learn to read charts, knit the lace pattern and learn the Tubular Bind Off technique.
- Day:
- Sunday, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
- Language:
- English
- Price:
- 129,00 € incl. VAT
Sari Nordlund: Cables for advanced knitters
This class will dive deeper into the cable technique, explains how to knit cables without a cable needle, more complicated cables, add them to other patterns and how they affect gauge.
- Day:
- Saturday, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
- Language:
- English
- Price:
- 129,00 € incl. VAT
Sari Nordlund: Cables for beginners
In this class we will cover the basic left and right cables and their easy variations, how to read basic charts and how to measure gauge over the cabled pattern.
- Day:
- Saturday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Language:
- English
- Price:
- 129,00 € incl. VAT
When you purchase a workshop ticket, a festival ticket for Saturday and Sunday is always included.
Designer
We are proud to welcome ten fantastic international designers. The workshops will be held partly in German and partly in English.
Vendors
We're also delighted to welcome nearly fifty fantastic international exhibitors, and there may be even more to come.
Photo gallery from 2015 and 2017
Here are some vivid impressions from the past two yarn festivals—perhaps you'll remember them, too. Many people met each other in person for the first time here.
