Mohair.
Five strands of mohair. One very clear vision.
Saara Autere's apartment in Helsinki sounds like a concert. The album covers on her walls are not decoration. They are a color brief.
She photographs festivals by day, catching light on a lens, then comes home and does it again with yarn. Her signature move: five strands of silk mohair held together like a chord. The result is not a yarn so much as a weather system. Green and purple appear in almost everything. She will tell you it is not a rule.
She has been knitting this way for years, one more stripe always winning. Now she is writing her first pattern. Other people can finally get inside her process. The colorways they are choosing are, predictably, wild.
"Some people take notes at a concert. Saara takes color swatches.”
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