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Byline: editor: Sally Singer AS TOLD TO STEPHANIE LACAVA

A London knitwear designer expands her oeuvre with the debut of textiles as lush as her sweaters.

For day, my uniform is MiH jeans, black or cream Repetto ballet flats, and vintage cashmere sweaters I customize myself. My dye vats are perfect for changing the color of an old sweater. I also have an overlocker, a type of sewing machine that allows me to rework pieces found at Portobello Market or stores like Rellik. One of my favorite finds is an old blue-and-cream Ballantyne intarsia knit top that I chopped off at the neck.

I wanted to play around with scale and material for my cushion textiles and ended up using a boiled lamb's wool cut into discs, the idea for which came from a ...

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