The pages are color photocopies of the sweaters I've made. These close-ups of the fabrics make it very clear that the subject of the photocopies is knitting. I want to continue the process by working with different scales of photocopies that will be less overt. I am also interested in exploring a variety of non-adhesive bindings that will involve sewing pages into the book with threads including metallic floss.

The Knitting Book is a work in progress. It came out of my desire to extend my interest in fiber arts. During the past two years I have been part of a group of women who meet weekly to explore advanced knitting patterns. I have been working with diagonal patterns and exotic yarns that require selections based on color and texture. Like the Batik Book, this book focuses on examples of a media. Since books require the audience to be involved over time, it is a reminder that the sweaters are knitted up each evening and that one sweater has led to the next as I long to explore more textures and colors. Like an animal book or a flower book, this is a collection of diagonally knit sweaters. In the conceiving and making of this first knitting book, I have taken a craft that was part of the heritage my mother passed on to me and pushed it far beyond what she had envisioned. So it is a tribute to those lessons learned when I was six years old and sat on the step between the kitchen and the laundry room--learning to knit while mother emptied the washing machine so we could hang the clothes out to dry on a warm summer morning.