Before the turn of the year 2017/2018 the ”Kalakukkoneulojat” knitting club was founded. The knitting patterns published so far are really beautiful, and I hope that the shrug/shawl I designed will be as appealing as the earlier club garments.

The ”Kierot Puikot 2017” knitting retreat needed its

My mother turned 50 recently, and in

The Fell Shawls series’ final shawl is the delicate, asymmetric lace shawl Malla. The shawl comes in two sizes: Pikku‐Malla (fin. “Little Malla”, knit with fingering weight yarn) and Iso‐Malla (fin. “Great Malla, knit with lace weight yarn). The Malla Fells are located in the municipality of Enontekiö, at the shore of lake Kilpisjärvi. At the f...

Song of the Spruce

Halti is the fourth shawl in the ”Fell Shawls” series. In Nordic legends, Halti is described as a mighty dude, leader of the Halti giant tribe. In reality, the Halti fell is part of the Scandes mountain range, and the highest elevation in Finland. The Finnish half of Halti is located in the municipality of Enontekiö, while the rest of the fell ...

This scarf was created as part of a scarf design project of the EnVisions forum. It was born when a lovely, merinowoolly ball of sock yarn literally jumped into my lap from out of the caches of my yarn boxes. In the end, my joyfully yellow skein (the color’s name is sunshine) was transformed into a boomerang-shaped scarf. The form came from the...

My small but large-headed son wished a new hat and cowl from Santa; the old ones were already beginning to be quite worn out. Over here, minus 30 degrees celsius happens every winter (seasoned with a biting wind), so the project had to be carefully considered. The garments had to fulfill three requirements: they had to be windproof, breathable ...

Saana is the third shawl in the ”Fell Shawls” series. This shawl is knit beginning from the neck. First, mountain avens are knit on a stockinette background; then follows a beautiful lace fell row; and finally a border of Lapland rosebay. For the flowers’ lace patterns I sought inspiration from patterns in the “Kunststricken” magazine published...

Taivaskero is the second shawl in the “Fell shawls” series. Taivaskero (also called Himmelriiki) is the highest peak of the Pallastunturi fells in Muonio, Finland. “Kero” literally means “peak” and “taivas” means “heaven”, so Taivaskero is the “heaven peak”…

The planning of this shawl ended a long inspirationless phase in my life and spawned the (so far) five-part “Fell shawls” series. Instructions for all shawls will be published one after another, first in Finnish on ullaneule.net, followed by translations in English and German on Ravelry.