Alho

Alho is the name of an old farm. It’s the name of the land that gave life to my great grandfather, my grandfather, and then, my mother. I’ve never lived there but it is the land I belong to.

Alho is a seamless sweater worked top-down. The sweater has a round yoke with a delicate lace pattern and long sleeves with the lace repeated on one cuff. The sweater has plenty of positive ease and an A-line shape increasing towards cropped hem. The neck is shaped higher and the back hem longer using short row technique. Alho gets its beautiful texture from the combination of cashmere and mohair/silk strands held together, while the lace is worked with only mohair/silk.

Yarn Holst Garn Noble (95% wool, 5% cashmere, 333 m/50 g) and Isager Silk Mohair (70% mohair, 30% silk, 212 m/25 g), or other light fingering and lace weight yarns held together. Shown in colors Rococo and 63. 3-3-3 [3-3-4-4] 4-5-5-5 skeins of Noble and 4-4-4 [5-5-6-6] 6-7-7-7 skeins of Silk Mohair.