Norwegian Sweaters and Jackets - by Kari Hestnes (Hardcover)

About the Book

"The best of Kari Hestnes's decades-long career in a single collection. Kari Hestnes has been a knit designer for almost 40 years--and she's a perennial fan favorite for her focus on gorgeous details and stunning embellishment, her flattering garment shaping, and her playful, vivid use of color. Now, she's revisited those four decades of challenging and endlessly rewarding work in order to bring together the best of the best, in one extraordinary collection: classic cabling, dynamic textures, and brilliant multicolor patterns for sweaters, cardigans, and tops, all featuring Hestnes's inimitable style and characteristic aesthetic flourishes."--Amazon.com.

Book Synopsis

The best of Kari Hestnes's decades-long career in a single collection.

Kari Hestnes has been a knit designer for almost 40 years--and she's a perennial fan favorite for her focus on gorgeous details and stunning embellishment, her flattering garment shaping, and her playful, vivid use of color. Now, she's revisited those four decades of challenging and endlessly rewarding work in order to bring together the best of the best, in one extraordinary collection: classic cabling, dynamic textures, and brilliant multicolor patterns for sweaters, cardigans, and tops, all featuring Hestnes's inimitable style and characteristic aesthetic flourishes.

• Patterns using a variety of techniques and design elements, with instructions included for a minimum of five sizes
• Full-color photographs of each project--plus additional nature photos were taken by Kari herself
• Decades of timeless design inspiration, now available in English for the first time

Review Quotes

"If fine colorwork Scandinavian knitting excites you, take a look at this new Norwegian knitting book. The designer does take her broad cues from traditional Norwegian knitting, but she is also a nature photographer ... Full of lovely sweaters that also encourage you to look at the natural world and its colors a little deeper."--Knitty.com

About the Author

Kari Hestnes has worked as a knitting designer for almost 40 years and has previously published 13 knitting books; she is one of the 6 designers featured in Knit Like a Norwegian, published by Trafalgar Square Books in 2021. She has been knitting and designing for as long as she can remember. One of her most essential lifelong projects has been the Mirasol Project, an effort she and her husband Per undertook to enhance schooling opportunities for children living in the Peruvian highlands, funded in part by proceeds from the sale of hand-knitted items. Kari currently resides in Oppland, Norway.