About a year ago, when I first started designing knits for publication, I thought about what to name my patterns. Up until this time I had titled them simply as cardigan with three-quarter sleeves.. and I knew this wouldn't do. Then it came to me and I named the first for my mother, Marlene. This felt right. The work is quite personal for me after all, and a family affair with daughter Juliet as top model. I continued this naming convention with each new design that followed, tapping my maternal family tree – a project researched initially by great aunt Hilda, an MIT librarian in her day.

Here's my first set of designs, in chronological order by namesake.