This particular design arose from my imagination of what interwoven ribbons would look like in knitting- the fancy kind of fabric ribbon that expensive wrapping paper shops sell. I played with the idea of Christmas style colors – with the burgundy, gold, and forest green as the background color- then thought of black velvet ribbon with black as...

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Having travelled all over the world, I’ve always looked at the textiles and collected lots of the fabrics. As everything inspires designs for my color knitting- textiles are certainly no different! The colors, the textures and the motifs from Andean blankets that I saw in market towns northeast of Quito, Ecuador have given many a motif to use i...

The Mayan Temples in Uxmal, Mexico inspired this textured square sweater. The buildings have settled with time and the stones have weathered – which led me to make the squares uneven sizes and using a heathered yarn. The motifs come from the façade as shown in the photo and from the hall of birds which is one of the famous buildings on the site...

The ceiling of the Ulu Cami Mosque in Metalya inspired this top-down woman’s fair isle sweater. The rougher texture of the brick along with the smoother spiral of the stone makes an interesting contrast. And the dome shape lends itself to translation into a top-down sweater. I seriously considered continuing the collar purl pattern throughout t...

The Hoover Building in London inspired this fitted woman’s sweater with intarsia stripes and faux cable columns. You might wonder why it’s not a more colorful art deco looking sweater given the picture here. But what attracted me was the clean lines and folded look of the red stripes. Also, when translating architecture to knitting patterns, I ...