6. september 2026 – 12. september 2026 Denmark
Knitting on Læsø with Annette Danielsen
Læsø and knitting have proved to be a brilliant combination. The nature and the stillness invite you to settle into a sheltered nook with your needles out. Not to mention the history Læsø has with wool, yarn spinneries and knitting clubs.
Knitting is one of the great trends of our time, and during the corona crisis even more people have thrown themselves into yarn and needles. If you, like so many others, love to knit, you now have the chance to become even better when, in September 2025, we are once again visited by star knitter Annette Danielsen.
If you can knit a sunset - you can surely also knit a brunsviger. It takes a good imagination, a pair of knitting needles, a calculator, a little yarn and a good cup of coffee - then you are almost there. We will try out different techniques, combine colours and qualities, be inspired by Læsø and perhaps an idea will pop up in your head that you can carry out on your knitting needles afterwards.
Daily workshops
During the week on Læsø there will be daily workshops, where you get the chance to try out a range of different knitting techniques in different yarn and with inspiration for how to use them. You will receive tips, tricks and guidance on small personal adjustments to the craft.
We will talk about design, fit and pattern adjustment, and there will be plenty of chances to ask questions and get sparring on knitting techniques. In addition to top-quality knitting workshops, the week on Læsø will be spiced up with visits around Læsø - among other things we will go and look at seaweed houses, we will have lovely nature experiences in Læsø's unique nature and talks with some of Læsø's passionate locals.
We have arranged all the visits with local enthusiasts, businesses and so on, and we make sure that you set off well and are warmly received. But we do not necessarily take part ourselves in the various arrangements.
You don't have to be a super-knitter to take part, but you must at minimum be able to cast on stitches, knit and purl, increase and decrease - and have a great desire to geek out and learn more.
We try to help with car-sharing options, so participants can drive together and share the costs of transport.
That is why we ask you to write on the registration whether you will provide a car for car-sharing or not. Car-sharing can be on the way to and from Læsø - but especially also on the little trips out on the island. Here you pay 25,- return to your driver.
Folk high school song and community
On the Læsø folk high school course we love to sing, and we have bought a proper stack of Folk High School Songbooks. Besides singing, we simply get to be together in a genuine folk high school community at our own lovely B&B with the most beautiful orangery, where our meals take place. In the communal room we knit, and in the park-like garden you can easily find a sunny nook, as the island is the sunniest place in Denmark.
You can see more of our lovely venue here at Østergård Kultur B&B
If you would like to stay at Østergård Kultur B&B a day or two more, we give a 15% discount
We try to help with car-sharing options, so participants can drive together and share the costs of transport.
That is why we ask you to write on the registration whether you will provide a car for car-sharing or not.
Welcome to our folk high school course on Læsø.
Subject to changes
Alle kan være med
Du bestemmer selv dit tempo, og programmet tilpasses holdet. Er du i tvivl om noget, så ring til os — så tager vi den sammen.
Sunday 6 September
16.50 Ferry from Frederikshavn. You are welcome to take an earlier ferry and can check in at the folk high school from 16.00. The course starts with dinner at 19.15
18.20 Arrival Læsø - drive towards Østergård Kultur B&B a little outside Byrum
18.30 - 19.15 Check-in
19.15 Dinner
20.00 Presentation of the programme and who is who? We round off with an evening song or two.
Monday 7 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 Tour of the venue with Østergård Kultur BB owner Kim Juul, who is married to Anna from Annas Højskole
10.30 - 13.00 Workshop 1 with Annette Danielsen
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Visit to the Museum Farm, which lies a 10-minute walk from the folk high school. We meet museum manager Simon Kyhn-Madsen, who tells about the farm and the seaweed houses on Læsø.
16.00 - 18.00 Cake and coffee/tea and workshop 2 with Annette Danielsen
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: "Why do we knit at all?" by Annette Danielsen
Tuesday 8 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 12.00 Knitting workshop 3 with Annette Danielsen
Break - you decide for yourselves what you want to do, but we can recommend a walk down towards the bathing lake, for example.
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14.00 - 16.00 A visit to Storhaven, where we take part in Solveig's Tuesday knitting club - we bring the songbooks. We get cake and coffee/tea
Break
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: Meet Seaweed-Henning and hear about Læsø past and present
Wednesday 9 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 11.00 Knitting workshop 4
11.10 Departure towards Læsø Saltworks
11.15 Visit to Læsø Saltworks, which lies 4 km from the folk high school
13.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Knitting workshop 5 - cake and coffee will be served around 15.00
Break
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: Song evening - we sing various songs from the Folk High School Songbook
Thursday 10 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 13.00 Knitting workshop 6 with Annette
13.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14.00-17.00 Time on your own
19.00 Dinner
20.00 -21.00 Workshop 7 with Annette
Friday 11 September
8.00 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 Morning song
9.00 -12.00 Workshop 8 with Annette Danielsen
13.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14-17.00 Round-up of the workshop with Annette Danielsen. Cake/tea and something sweet will be served
19.00 Gala dinner with a fish and shellfish buffet + dessert and folk high school songs
Saturday 12 September
8.00 Breakfast in the orangery with the chance to make a packed lunch
9.00 Departure after breakfast
9.40 Ferry towards Frederikshavn
Programme
Sunday 6 September
16.50 Ferry from Frederikshavn. You are welcome to take an earlier ferry and can check in at the folk high school from 16.00. The course starts with dinner at 19.15
18.20 Arrival Læsø - drive towards Østergård Kultur B&B a little outside Byrum
18.30 - 19.15 Check-in
19.15 Dinner
20.00 Presentation of the programme and who is who? We round off with an evening song or two.
Monday 7 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 Tour of the venue with Østergård Kultur BB owner Kim Juul, who is married to Anna from Annas Højskole
10.30 - 13.00 Workshop 1 with Annette Danielsen
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Visit to the Museum Farm, which lies a 10-minute walk from the folk high school. We meet museum manager Simon Kyhn-Madsen, who tells about the farm and the seaweed houses on Læsø.
16.00 - 18.00 Cake and coffee/tea and workshop 2 with Annette Danielsen
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: "Why do we knit at all?" by Annette Danielsen
Tuesday 8 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 12.00 Knitting workshop 3 with Annette Danielsen
Break - you decide for yourselves what you want to do, but we can recommend a walk down towards the bathing lake, for example.
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14.00 - 16.00 A visit to Storhaven, where we take part in Solveig's Tuesday knitting club - we bring the songbooks. We get cake and coffee/tea
Break
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: Meet Seaweed-Henning and hear about Læsø past and present
Wednesday 9 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 11.00 Knitting workshop 4
11.10 Departure towards Læsø Saltworks
11.15 Visit to Læsø Saltworks, which lies 4 km from the folk high school
13.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Knitting workshop 5 - cake and coffee will be served around 15.00
Break
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Evening talk: Song evening - we sing various songs from the Folk High School Songbook
Thursday 10 September
8.00 - 8.50 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 - 9.00 Morning song
9.00 - 13.00 Knitting workshop 6 with Annette
13.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14.00-17.00 Time on your own
19.00 Dinner
20.00 -21.00 Workshop 7 with Annette
Friday 11 September
8.00 Breakfast in the orangery
8.50 Morning song
9.00 -12.00 Workshop 8 with Annette Danielsen
13.00 Lunch at the folk high school
14-17.00 Round-up of the workshop with Annette Danielsen. Cake/tea and something sweet will be served
19.00 Gala dinner with a fish and shellfish buffet + dessert and folk high school songs
Saturday 12 September
8.00 Breakfast in the orangery with the chance to make a packed lunch
9.00 Departure after breakfast
9.40 Ferry towards Frederikshavn
Beliggenhed & ophold
Here you'll find our folk high school on Læsø:
Annas Højskole, which runs the course, has invested in a large B&B - Østergaard KulturBB, which lies near Byrum in the middle of Læsø.
Læsø is also known as Kattegat's pearl and is the largest island in the Kattegat - even larger than Samsø. There is plenty of nature here - in fact nature makes up 70% of the island's total area. And Læsø dune plantation therefore lies close to us.
Læsø has a very special nature and history - among other things, it is here you find the very special seaweed houses and it is here that the world-famous Læsø salt is boiled, which you will come to hear much more about.
In the middle of the island and close to everything lies the large, beautiful Østergård Kultur Bed & Breakfast a little outside Byrum. Here there are 12 lovely apartments with rooms in various sizes and numbers, there is a large communal room and a truly fantastic orangery, overlooking the park-like garden, which forms the most beautiful setting for our meals.
In the garden there is plenty of garden furniture and lovely sunny nooks, for Læsø is in fact the sunniest place in Denmark.
We also have several fire pits, and we light a fire when the mood calls for it.
In the evening when the sky is clear you will experience the wildest starry sky, because there is no light pollution on or near the island.
It is quite simply magical on Læsø!
You can read more about Østergård Kultur BB here: oestergaardkulturbb.dk
Meet your instructors
Annette Danielsen
"I have always knitted, but really began designing in 2006 when my first knitting book was made. Since then it has grown to more than 35 publications and well over 500 knitting designs", says the knitting-mad Aarhusian Annette Danielsen, who also runs a number of courses and knitting workshops. "I love letting myself be inspired by things around me - going about mulling over how 'this and that' can be turned into knitting. What techniques will it require, which colours go together ... or is it the fit that can express my inspiration. It is a great pleasure to teach, inspire and unsettle other knitters. I enjoy knitting in a group, experiencing that we can inspire and help each other, experiencing that it doesn't matter so much who we are, but more the fact that we are knitters. I am known for being a 'technician', so from the participants' side there will be an expectation of knitting techniques of various levels of difficulty".
Henning Johansen
Henning Johansen, or just Seaweed-Henning, is the local thatcher who has revived the old craft of thatching a seaweed roof. That is what it is called when it is seaweed, or rather eelgrass, that you lay on the roofs of the characteristic seaweed houses on Læsø. Læsø is world-famous for its roofs of eelgrass. In fact they are not found anywhere else in the world. The 33 seaweed roofs on Læsø are so unique that Henning Johansen, Læsø Municipality and many more are working to get the seaweed houses and Læsø Saltworks onto the Tentative List, which is the forerunner to UNESCO's World Heritage List. We will hear about the seaweed roofs, and we will see Henning in action on one of the houses he and his men are currently working on.
Praktisk & pris
How to get to your folk high school course on Læsø:
There are several ways you can get to Læsø. You can either take the car to Frederikshavn, from where you sail to Læsø. The trip takes 90 min - and takes place on a large ferry at a nice, calm pace, where you really slow down and get ready for the relaxed island tempo.
You can also take the train/bus to Frederikshavn and then board the ferry.
If you are without a car you can take the bus from the ferry berth, which runs every time there is a ferry, and then you can ask the driver to drop you off close to Østergård Kultur B&B Musumsvej 2, Byrum.
It is about 100 metres from us. Book your ferry ticket in good time. You can always cancel and get your money back right up to 20 min before departure.
A link to the Læsø ferry can be found here
We also try to help with car-sharing options, so participants can drive together and share the costs of transport. That is why we ask you to write on the registration whether you will provide a car for car-sharing or not.
Price includes
- 6 nights at a lovely large B&B with delightful orangery and park-like garden
- Full board at the course venue - consisting of 3 meals and afternoon cake / or evening cake every day
- Teaching with Annette Danielsen
- Materials in the form of yarn and compendiums we will use during the week
- Talks with exciting speakers
- Delicious gala dinner + dessert for the closing dinner
- Østergård's bicycles for free use
- Charge to the Travel Guarantee Fund
Price excludes
- Transport to and from Læsø
- Transport around the island - it takes place in private cars with car-sharing
- Experiences on Læsø outside the programme
- Drinks
- Payment:
- On registration we ask for a deposit of kr. 1000,- The balance must be transferred 2 months before departure.
- In special cases it is possible to pay by Mastercard; please write on the registration if this is desired.
Billeder
What our guests say
“Tak for en fantastisk oplevelse, ikke mindst takket være Anna og dig. Du var en inspirerende rejseleder, der gjorde turen til meget mere end bare en pilgrimsvandring.”
“Skøn tur som puttes i rygsækken med fantastiske oplevelser, smukke fotos og den bedste kursusleder Michael Birkkjær Lauritsen. Elsker oplevelser med Annas Højskole.”
“Jeg har netop været på strikkehøjskole på Læsø ved Annette Danielsen. Uanset hvor hårdt jeg anstrenger mig, kan jeg simpelthen ikke finde noget negativt at sige. Annette Danielsen er en fuldstændig fantastisk inspirerende og forrygende formidler. Østergaard B&B er et skønt sted med lækre lejligheder, dejlig og velsmagende mad, og en meget sympatisk og underholdende vært. Vi mødte skønne og inspirerende fortællere i huset og på ture på Læsø. Vi startede dagene med morgensang sammen med Jens Christian, som fint fortalte lidt om de sange, vi sang. Dejlig start på nogle vidunderlige dage. Det har bare været helt igennem en skøn, pragtfuld og fantastisk uge. Føler mig meget beriget.”
Ofte stillede spørgsmål
Kan jeg rejse med, hvis jeg rejser alene?
Ja — rigtig mange af vores kursister rejser alene. Du bliver en del af fællesskabet fra første dag, og du kan vælge eget værelse, hvis du vil have ro omkring dig.
Hvor god en form skal jeg være i?
Alle kan være med! Programmet tilpasses holdet, og du bestemmer selv dit tempo. Er du i tvivl, så ring til os — så tager vi den sammen.
Hvordan foregår betalingen?
Du reserverer din plads med et depositum og modtager en faktura pr. e-mail. Restbeløbet betales senest 60 dage før afrejse — også via faktura og bankoverførsel.
Hvad hvis jeg bliver nødt til at aflyse?
Vores afbestillingsregler står i rejsereglerne for pakkerejser, og vi er medlem af Rejsegarantifonden (reg.nr. 3122). Kontakt os hurtigst muligt, hvis noget kommer i vejen — vi finder altid en løsning sammen.
Kan I tage hensyn til allergier og særlige behov?
Ja. Når du reserverer, spørger vi ind til kost, allergier og særlige behov, og vi giver besked videre til køkkenet og værterne på destinationen.
Er der dansktalende værter med på rejsen?
Ja, altid. Der er dansktalende kursusledere og værter med på alle vores ophold.
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