Marianne Isager has taught at numerous design and craft schools throughout Denmark, and has been active in the establishment of the knitting line at Skals School of Handicraft. She earned her degree as a textile designer from Copenhagen’s School of Design and Handicrafts. The ideas for this book came directly from one of her sojourns in Africa. Marianne lives in Aarhus, Denmark.

“I have always been crazy for patterns. As soon as I learned to draw, I happily repeated a motif over and over. Although I didn’t discover the joy of knitting until I was seventeen, from the very beginning I drew my own designs for garments and threw myself headlong into the most ambitious projects. My fascination for knitting grew as I discovered new techniques and the many different ways they could be applied.” —Author Marianne Isager