February 17, 2025

Vasara by Inese Sang

Vasara by Inese Sang

What, if any, challenges did you encounter during the design process? 
For me, challenges are what makes designing interesting and exciting. It inspires me to seek new solutions and techniques. The first challenge in Vasara was to organize the trapping of longer floats of the irregular colourwork in a systematic way, so that the wrong side would look clean and polished. The second challenge was to arrange the colourwork in a way that the Contrast Colour would transition smoothly to the next row without creating irregular floats from row to row.


If you were to knit this design in another color, what would it be?

I can easily imagine Vasara in dark faded blue colour with a dusty sea-glass green contrast hue for the flower colourwork section.


 

What is your New Year’s resolution?
Lately I am consciously working towards allocating more time to explore my design ideas beyond just sketches. I have this notebook full of sketches collected over years that I don’t even know how to start tackling and it gets overwhelming really fast with all the possibilities and constant addition of new ideas. This year I am hoping to dedicate time to start working through them in a systematic and planned manner.


What are your favourite gardens or parks?
There are two gardens I am trying to visit every year, because of how much I enjoy them. Rundale Palace Garden in Latvia, which is built in traditional Baroque style and offers large, meticulously planned landscape space to take a stroll and relax on a summer day. And Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver - a traditional Japanese garden, where me and my family go for a visit at the onset of autumn to enjoy the tranquillity and the colours of the changing seasons.