A few weeks ago, I shared with you my review of my knitting pattern designs that I published throught the year 2025. And I was more surprised than anyone to realize that actually, I had worked quite hard and managed to get some nice stuff done.
And as I was trying to recollect all these patterns (using my own instagram history and gallery on my phone to jog my memory), I also realized that I’d added quite some sweaters to my collection! Which does explain why I’m having a slightly hard time to close the doors of my wardrobe …
So, what designs did I try out and what was my take on them?
First in line, the Gujo Sweater from Aegyoknit. Why did I buy the pattern? The colour. Definitely the colour. And also, the design, I just love oversized and cropped, this super comfy style that works for my size and shape. And then again, the yarn colour! It was also my first time trying out a brioche pattern, and it took my some time to get the hang of it, but the result is quite gorgeous. There is one line where you clearly can see where my mind probably drifted off (cringe) but well, I guess that’s just part of the process of handmade knits, right? The sweater was a bit a time-consuming one, and not a TV-knit-project (if you want to avoid something like my weird line in the upper body), but it is definitely great as a flashy, fashionable garment to compliment basic jeans, for example.
Just keep in mind : these kind of sweaters can usually not be worn with coats, except if you have something like sleeveless coats or vests. I mean, you can try to squeeze into a jacket, but you will most probably look like an overstuffed and overdecorated muffin. Just saying…
Next up, I made another Frankie Sweater. It is a really really nice and easy design, and I had quite a nice stash of Gepard Garn Puno that a friend had gifted me, and decided to make another one. I already have one in a flashy green colour, and decided to add a beige-coloured one. Also, this sweater works both for my daughter and myself, so I feel like a) using my stash and b) knitting for two persons instead of one, is definitely a super responsible thing to do. Brownie points for myself, right?
In the Autumn, BC Garn launched their Brisa yarn, a yarn that is similar to Gepard Garn’s Puno. I was lucky to receive the yarn from Soul wool to test it, and decided to work one of the knitting patterns on my wishlist, Anna Ventzel’s Robinia sweater. In yellow, of course… The result was really really nice, squishy and soft, a super quick knit, but obviously the knitting pattern is great so, a real pleasure to knit. If you want to read more about that knitting pattern, I’ve written a bit about my thoughts on that pattern in a previous blog post.
Then – and this was definitely a late-night-scrolling-on-my-phone-buy – I bought a whole pattern book by Lucía Ruiz de Aguirre, mainly to make the Flora sweater. I chose it also (to be fair to myself), because I had been looking for a design to use some huge stash of a very thin, fingering yarn that I had bought many many years ago in Ebeltoft. I had a stash of white, yellow (surprise there), and two shades of gorgeous greens, and hadn’t found a design that would work with all these colours. So, I used the yarn double, added a mohair, and worked this Flora sweater with it. It was a bit of a pain, because of the heaviness of it all. But the floral pattern is beautiful, and I’m always in admiration of designers that manage to design yoke patterns like these. Definitely something I’d like to learn at some point in my life…
And to my surprise, the sweater is quite light to wear now it’s done. I guess it was just the weight while knitting that felt a bit much.
And last but not least, the big day arrived where my daughter asked for a Lopapeysa (a sweater made with the Icelandic Lopi Yarn). What did I do? I jumped on the occasion, chose a pattern with her the same weekend, and got the yarn a week later, and knit it up in under two weeks. I chose the Hraunadrangi pattern from Litla Prjónabúdin, a yarn shop that I always go to when I go back to family in Iceland. She has great lopi sweater designs, that are well explained and well designed, and, in my opinion, have a slightly more modern touch than other lopi designs. Anyway, the sweater turned out gorgeous, and it fits my daughter perfectly.
A little bit of a fun fact, as I showed this sweater to my aunt who visited us last autumn, and explained who the designer was, she said: “Oh, apparently we are related, she is a cousin of yours actually!”. Now how cool is that?
