Maarit Knits is a homegrown knitwear studio located in northern California, and currently being set up in Hawaii. Maarit learned to knit, crochet and weave at an early age growing up in Finland from her seamstress grandmother. She perfected her hand-operated machine knitting skills in a knitwear program at the Art Academy of San Francisco. Her love for color, exquisite yarns from Maine and embellishments of fine leather/suede and Swarovski crystals are essential elements for her custom-made knitwear collection.