Maria Lärkäng

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Knitting: Pullover
Björk is a long sleeve, V-neck sweater. It’s knitted in the round top-down, in one piece. Not a single seam is required! I have knit it in fingering weight merino/nylon as well as pure merino, but if you want a cooler, more summery sweater, cotton or bamboo would also work well.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
A palindrome is a sequence of characters, like a word or a phrase, that reads the same whether your read it for- or backwards. These socks look the same from the toe as from the cuff, hence the name. As a twist, they’re knitted with reversed colours, like photonegatives of each other.
Knitting: Mittens
From a distance, the pattern on these mittens will look like the classic houndstooth pattern. Up close, you can see the little cats.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
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Knitting: Cardigan
Joan is a cropped cardigan with half sleeves, perfect for wearing over dresses. It’s knit bottom-up without a single seam - if you don’t like sewing, this is the cardigan for you!
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
In November 2014 I released the mitten pattern Gudrun, born during the Swedish election the same year, and named after one of my feminist heroes. This sock pattern is the footwear companion piece of the Gudrun mittens, also named after a feminist hero of mine - Rossana Dinamarca, a Swedish MP who tirelessly and fearlessly fights for equality.
Knitting: Mittens
This pattern was, as several of my other designs, taken from the doodles I used to fill my lecture notes with before I started knitting. When it became time to name them, I searched high and low for a plant which resembled the pattern. Then my partner, ever the pragmatist, suggested that I simply name them for what they are instead of trying to...
Knitting: Mittens
Fight both the cold and the patriarchy this winter! The theme for these mittens has been brewing in my head since I started knitting, but the pattern itself was born during the Swedish election in autumn 2014. A big thank you to Clara Falk, who in addition to test knitting also suggested the name.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
Going trick-or-treating this Halloween? These fabulously creepy-crawly fingerless mittens will keep your hand warm in the chilly fright night air, while leaving your fingers free to open candy wrappers (or perhaps make some mischief?). They can be knit in the classic Halloween colours as shown, or in any other colour combination for year-round ...
Knitting: Cardigan
Margaery is a light, lacy cropped cardigan perfect for wearing over dresses. Knit in a cotton/wool blend, it is great for cool summer evenings. It is worked seamlessly from the bottom up. Body and sleeves are worked separately up to the underarm and then knitted together.
Knitting: Mittens
These mittens are knitted in stranded colourwork from the cuff upward. The design includes a thumb gusset for a perfect fit. Pattern includes charts for both mittens as well as written instructions.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
Fresh leaves on swirling tendrils; the perfect springtime socks! With leafy lace and twisted stitches in the front, increases and decreases which add subtle waves to the sides of the socks, and a simple yet stylish cable along the back of the leg, these socks are interesting from all angles as well as fun to knit.
Knitting: Mid-calf Socks
These socks are knitted toe-up using Magic Loop. Since the pattern is worked across the entire front of the socks with twisted stitches, I would not recommend knitting them on DPNs.
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These fingerless mittens are knitted in stranded colourwork from the cuff upward. The pattern requires basic knowledge of knitting including increasing and decreasing, and should be fairly easy for any knitter who is somewhat familiar with stranded knitting and following a chart. The cuff incorporates a little bit of lace, but it’s a very simpl...
Knitting: Fingerless Gloves
These fingerless mittens are knitted in stranded colourwork from the cuff upward. The pattern does not offer very extensive instructions, but these should be fairly easy for any knitter who is somewhat familiar with stranded knitting and following a chart. The cuff incorporates a little bit of lace, but it’s a very simple two-row lace pattern w...
Knitting: Mittens
These mittens are named after a wonderful cat who is long gone from the world but never from my heart. Zammet was a slender, elegant girl with an enormous heart. She loved her two-legged family, and her favourite way of expressing this devotion was by kneading, hence the many paw prints in the pattern. :-)
Knitting: Mittens
Any Harry Potter fan will be familiar with the motif for these mittens: the silver doe as it appears to Harry in the Forest of Dean. And a tribute to my favourite character; really the true hero of the story, in my mind.
Knitting: Mittens
I have been a student for over five years now. Before I started knitting, I used to fill notebook after notebook with doodles, as I found that keeping my hands busy helped me to focus better. Repetitive graphic patterns seemed to work best, especially if I found the subject difficult. The patterns on these mittens are taken from a notebook I us...
Knitting: Mittens
I am a zombie fanatic. I love those undead, shuffling, flesh-eating monsters. I watch so many zombie movies that I frequently have very vivid zombie dreams - which I usually enjoy. So I simply had to make a pair of mittens to show my appreciation for the undead.