Tampere, Finland

Enikö is a freelance scriptwriter and singer and hopefully future full-time knitwear designer who lives in Tampere, Finland. In her spare time she snowboards, walks, and knits a lot. She loves colorwork.

IG: @baloghenikoe  |  #enikoknits

Aistė was born in Lithuania, a small country with deep and broad knitting traditions where almost every woman knits. Having knit her first sweater at age eleven, she has been passionate about knitting for as long as she can remember. Now Aistė designs knitwear. Strongly believing that patterns should be tailored to fit you perfectly, she focuses her designs on garments that fit the curves of all women. Read her secrets for successful knitting at www.vilnonis.net (vilnonis means woolen in Lithuanian).

IG: @aisteb1973 | #aisteb1973handknitwear

Vilnius, Lithuania

La Mesa, California

Born and raised in San Diego, California, Shayla developed an interest in fiber arts while attending college and learned to sew, embroider, and crochet. She taught herself to knit soon after and quickly fell in love with knitting. In mid-2019 she decided she wanted to give knitwear designing a go and published her first pattern, Tarweed, in May 2020.

IG: @waxflowerstudio | #waxflowerstudio

Nataliya Guseva is a sock knitter designer from the Volga Upland region of Russia. Knitting and designing socks is her favorite game, finding the perfect combination of color, pattern, and texture.

IG: @Pauk_tkach_tro | #паукткачтроглодит

Cheboksary, Chuvashia, Russia

Kaluga, Russia

Originally from Orenburg, Maria lives in the beautiful Russian city of Kaluga, the birthplace of cosmonautics. She learned to knit as a child, watching her grandmother who dyed goat down and sheep wool to be hand spun as fine thread and knitted into weightless Orenburg shawls. These days, Maria is pleased to dye yarn for bright and unusual projects as she tries to come up with innovative new designs.

IG: @glamourknits | #mkglamourknits

Olya is a life-long maker who loves to play with color, texture, and design elements while combining traditional techniques with modern styles. Having studied art in college, she enjoys a variety of mediums for artistic expression, from oil painting to pottery to fiber arts. When she is not busy homeschooling her five children, she loves to learn new fiber-related skills. In 2020, she discovered knitwear design and began working on projects for numerous publications as well as publishing her own patterns on Ravelry and LoveCrafts.

Ravelry: oliya

Mequon, Wisconsin

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Paula is a knitter, designer, and teacher who believes that inspiration comes from people, art, and nature. She is passionate about working with yarn and needles as tools to transform daily life inspirations into garments and accessories. Her work focuses on textures, great fit, smart details, and interesting constructions in handmade knitwear.

IG: @paulapkl | #paulapereiraknits