Do you ever find yourself in the yarn store holding three colors in your hand and thinking, “I want to use these together, but I don’t know how?” I designed this sweater to solve that particular problem for myself. Sometimes you just want certain colors and don’t have a good reason. I think you should get them. And I think you should turn them ...

Pencil skirt, skinny jeans, pleats, corduroy, silk. One sweater, endless possibilities. This is the sweater I always want and never have. Simple, versatile, likely needed in every color. Pair it with whatever you like to wear; I promise it’ll be the perfect match.

Inspired by an ad for a handbag where the model had impossibly perfect hair, an impossibly perfect a-line skirt, and fabulous shoes. Sometimes that’s all it takes. I liked the length of the sleeves and the turtleneck - not quite the length you’d expect in either. Mostly, I wanted to capture the effortlessness of the scene’s impossible perfectio...

My winter coats. Blue. Black. Grey. Grey again. Brown. Sometimes you just want something vibrant for the long, dark, cold days. Treat yourself to something borderline outlandish and banish the winter blueblackbrowngreys.

Every fall season, in one fashion magazine or another, there is that sweater shot: the woman with the impeccable eye makeup snuggled in a turtleneck she’s pulled up over her nose. I always wanted that sweater (and that eye makeup). Computer Blue is smartly relaxed. Not tight, but not too loose. It’s the sweater I want to wear in a spare Scandin...

A cynical person would attempt to turn her ear worm into a meaningful exegesis on a sweater. Instead, I’ll tell you that this sweater was named several weeks before publication when a couple I ran into at Rhinebeck asked me what it was called and I decided, on the spot, to name it after the song in my head.

Rhinebeck, or the Duchess County Sheep and Wool Festival, is a sea of beautiful handknits, yet I fixated on a woman in a store bought sweater. I loved the texture, I loved the color, and I loved the way she made it look casually elegant. It didn’t hurt that not 12 hours earlier, I had bought yarn in nearly the exact color. I started plotting a ...

Thinking about winter can bring out the hyperbole in me: the great frozen wasteland stretches out, interminably, before us… So rather than wallow in a maudlin pit of my own exaggerated vocabulary, I will bravely face the months ahead in a warm, cabled sweater knit in a fabulous and outrageous color. It’s a departure for me, and I encourage you ...

The Emily is the first in a series, The Knitters I Know, highlighting the women whose friendship has come to me by way of needles and yarn.

In 1858, the Breton, or mariniere, became part of the uniform for French sailors. By the 1960s, it had morphed into an indispensable piece of cool for icons like Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot courtesy of Coco Chanel and the birth of nautical chic.

Channel is a top-down sweater knit in the round with 0-2” negative ease and a slipped single stitch spiral. It can be made with short or long sleeves and features a broken rib at the hem, cuffs, and neckline. The sweater is worked back and forth through the raglan increases and then joined.