Kari Hestnes

Kari Hestnes has worked as a knitting designer for almost 40 years and has previously published 13 knitting books; she is one of the 6 designers featured in Knit Like a Norwegian , published by Trafalgar Square Books in 2021. She has been knitting and designing for as long as she can remember. One of her most essential lifelong projects has been the Mirasol Project, an effort she and her husband Per undertook to enhance schooling opportunies for children living in the Peruvian highlands,...See more

Kari Hestnes has worked as a knitting designer for almost 40 years and has previously published 13 knitting books; she is one of the 6 designers featured in Knit Like a Norwegian , published by Trafalgar Square Books in 2021. She has been knitting and designing for as long as she can remember. One of her most essential lifelong projects has been the Mirasol Project, an effort she and her husband Per undertook to enhance schooling opportunies for children living in the Peruvian highlands, funded in part by proceeds from the sale of hand-knitted items. Kari currently resides in Oppland, Norway. See less