Lay your swatch over the photo to check your gauge! Helga has also added a much-appreciated XL size to each garment. Each garment includes a swatching lesson with a gauge-size photo shown on the facing page. Helga has combined Isager yarns to create unexpected textures and colorways for jackets, cardigans, pullovers, and accessories. These stylish, cleverly rendered garments form the basis of a great knitted wardrobe. Each garment focuses on a single technique: garter, knit, purl, cables, yarnovers, brioche, etc. Helga expertly breaks down knitting into its basic parts.

Here she also runs her popular summer workshops.In this latest collection, Helga Isager has designed knitwear that is the perfect balance between fashionable and wearable, but most importantly, within the reach of new knitters. The other half she spends in Tversted, the area in North Jutland where she grew up. Today Marianne Isager lives half of the year in Japan, where she resides in Tokyo. In addition to this Marianne Isager is the author of a string of inspiring knitting books, published both in Denmark and internationally. The former often have their background in her inspirational travels to Latin America, Asia and Africa, and in her work as an NGO in countries as different as Peru, Nepal and Greenland.

Marianne Isager is also known for her instructive courses, lectures, her numerous exhibitions and classes and her workshop business. Marianne Isager has, throughout the last 40 years, been at the forefront of Danish knit design, and through her extensive production of patterns and books she has been instrumental in maintaining the continuous development of the old craft. Today the book is translated into several languages. In 2013 the Swedish publishers Natur & Kultur (Nature & Culture) published her book Finstickat. Helga Isager is the author of several knitting books published in both Denmark and internationally. Throughout the years Helga Isager has given numerous classes in both Denmark and Sweden, just as she has worked as a guest teacher at Skals – Højskolen for Design og Håndarbejde. Her ability to place traditional knitting techniques in a contemporary context paired with her curious exploration of the never ending possibilities hidden in a ball of yarn and a set of knitting needles, has evoked a response particularly with the younger audience. With her brand Amimono, Helga Isager has since 2005 been part of renewing knitting both as a craft and as a fashion phenomenon. The founder of Isager, Marianne Isager, and her daughter and co owner of the company Helga Isager, are behind a line of popular knitting books. The yarns and patterns are sold in selected shops in Denmark and internationally. The Danish company Isager has since 1977 been supplying patterns and quality yarns made from natural fibres, both known and loved by knitters the world over.

Amimono knit collection