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Kindred Knits: Patterns from My Estonian Family Archives
Aleks Byrd
Alek’s Byrd’s Kindred Knits: Patterns from My Estonian Family Archives is a captivating collection of designs inspired her grandmother's old sketchbooks and her family’s heirloom crafts. The patterns are innovative and modern, yet rooted in tradition.
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“Knitting stitches many things together, far beyond the literal loops of yarn. In this book, it has stitched together generations of my family.”
Aleks Byrd’s Kindred Knits: Patterns from My Estonian Family Archives is a captivating collection of knitwear designs inspired by the old sketchbooks of her Estonian grandmother, Hilja, and some of her family’s heirloom crafts. The book features 15 patterns, ranging from socks and hats to sweaters and cardigans, worked in a variety of techniques — including lace, cables and colourwork, as well as Roosimine, the traditional Estonian inlay method. The designs are innovative and modern, yet rooted in tradition: an homage to previous generations and their shared love of craft.
Aleks Byrd is an illustrator and knitwear designer with Estonian, Canadian and American roots. She is particularly well-known as a moderniser of Estonian knitting traditions. Aleks has introduced techniques such as Roosimine and Vikkel to knitters around the world. Kindred Knits is her second knitting book: her innovative debut, Traditions Revisited, was published by Laine Publishing in 2022.
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“I only had nine short years with my grandmother Hilja, and during that time together, she wasn’t able to knit, so these mementoes of her knitting life are extra special to me. Flicking through each page and unfolding every magazine clipping carefully collaged in the precious sketchbooks was like getting to know the creative soul of my vanaema (grandmother).”
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