Welcome to Retrofutura – a page about historic and modern knitting design. There is fashionable knitting design, and then there is knitting design that keeps coming back. This page is dedicated to patterns that just live on, to their constant reinterpretation, and to bringing them with us into the future. Retrofutura’s knitting design is biased towards a colorful linear look and stranded knitting. You’ll find patterns and kits in the shop, and a selection of yarn and design in natural materials. Our selection of yarn and design is chosen simply for its beauty, but also for its connection to knitting history. We carry yarns from natural fibers where sustainability is important in the choice of fiber and its processing.

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  Sewing Together a Cowl
  Lately, I’ve been a bit obsessed with knitting cowls in stranded knitting. They are easy projects with a good stretch of nice straightforward knitting, enough that it’s now one of those projects that are done just […]
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  Celebrating Anna Næsgaard
  This April, the summer issue of PieceWork Magazine is about samplers, and contains an article about Anna Næsgaard, written jointly by our textile work group at the Textile Museum in Herning, Denmark. A small excerpt is […]
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  Walker 1_44 Sweater
  It is always a bit festive to release a new knitting pattern, I think. Especially when I have worked on the pattern for a long time, as I have with the pattern for the Walker 1_44 […]
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  Would you like to test knit for me?
  Would you like to test knit? I have a constant stream of knitting patterns in development, and the work from idea to finished pattern is a long one – that the designer cannot walk alone! That’s […]
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  Recomposed
  Recomposed is a project co-created by folk musician Maja Kjær Jacobsen and myself, Astrid Colding Sivertsen. Maja was searching for a knitwear designer who is interested in creating new from the old, and that happens to […]
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  Astrids butik – Astrid’s shop
  It’s finally ready! My new web page, Astrids butik. Until today, I’ve run a web shop here on Retrofutura. But, there is also one on my other page, Midgaards Have, and it is really not practical. […]
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  German Short Rows
  Short rows are the perfect technique for shaping knitting, and there are many different ways to knit short rows. Many of them are a bit fiddly, and some will even make a small hole in the […]
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  A Decorative Rib
  I am writing a pattern for a simple sweater with a simple shape and a gauge of 18 sts / 10 cm (4 inches). I’ll publish it as Walker 1_44 Sweater later. I usually knit several […]
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  Danish Tie Shawls
  The Textile Museum in Herning, Denmark, owns a collection of hand knitted objects from the area around Herning in Jutland, Central Denmark. The collection contains shawls, underwear, socks, and footless socks. I work at the Textile […]

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