Designers get inspiration from many places. Inspiration can come from nature, from art, from the runway or even from the streets. Sometimes a design can start with a stitch pattern, or grow out of a silhouette.
It’s September and all this week it will be in the 90s here in NYC. Still, I dream. I dream of orange leaves, pumpkins, cider donuts, fall fiber festivals and SWEATERS. So to get us all in the mood, I here’s a round up of fall sweater patterns (click here for more information or to purchase). […]
It’s the last weekend in March, springtime, nearly April, and here in Brooklyn . . . it snowed, granted it was only snow flurries, but still. Since this time of year, we’d like to believe it will get warm soon. I wanted to share some springtime knitting inspiration. Here’s a round up of spring knitting […]
I often get asked about my “design process,” and I feel sheepish and inadequate and usually make up some kind of nonsense about being inspired by the colors of the turning leaves or the way the light hits the brick of a New York building. . . but since it’s just us, I thought I’d […]
Designing Knitting Stitches So where does inspiration come from? From a sunset, a beautiful field, a work of art . . . a laundry hamper. Yep, you heard me right. Sometimes inspiration comes from the weirdest places. A little over a year ago, my husband David and I were at an adorable Inn In Woodstock […]