Teva Durham is a designer of handknit and crochet fashions. Dubbed the "mistress of stitchery" by Ruth La Ferla in The New York Times, Teva founded Loop-d-Loop.com in 2000 after a stint as a staff editor at Vogue Knitting. As one of the first online knitting design sites, in its first incarnation, Loop-d-Loop served up Teva's edgy designs along with intriguing text. At that time, Teva created several iconic knit pieces such as The Braided Neckpiece, The Lace Leaf Scarf and the Drawstring Cowl and featured "real people" models culled from New York City's downtown art, music and dance scene. The collection was the basis for Teva's first book "Loop-d-Loop: More Than 40 Novel Designs For Knitters" (STC Craft, 2005) with editor Melanie Falick. A breakthrough  craft book for its high production values, it was followed by "Loop-d-Loop Crochet" (STC Craft, 2007). Teva is currently finishing her third book, focused on knitted lace. In addition, Teva has developed a signature range of eight yarns with modern yet artisanal appeal, distributed by Tahki Stacy Charles (www.tahkistacycharles.com), specifically suited to her sculptural designs. Teva creates two pattern collections per year in her yarns to coincide with the Spring and Fall shipments to your local yarn shop.  

Images from Spring 2009 Collection, copyright Adrian Buckmaster

A Note From Teva: Welcome to the new incarnation of my site. So much has happened in the knitting world since I first started Loop-d-Loop.com, and much of it has happened in cyberspace. Along with most every other knitter, several years ago I began to follow bloggers such as Crazy Aunt Purl, The Yarn Harlot and the Mason Dixon gals (and sometimes saw they had knit my designs which was a kick), I dropped into Clara Parkes' Knitter's Review and Knitty to check out the buzz, and marveled at the advent of Ravelry and our strength in numbers. Many, many knitters, like me, have built careers out of our fervent hobby. We are interconnecting with each other and our fans and customers in multiple ways. A few years ago I stopped selling patterns directly on this site and it has been a sort of holding page with links. My distributor now has my design collections and yarns featured on their site and my publisher has a gallery for my books. I have just come out of a difficult personal time and found some space to think about the purpose of my own site.

Here's my aim:
Instruction--To help knitters to complete projects I've designed by offering some free online tutorials and also tutorials for sale along with some self-published workshop leaflets for aspiring knit designers.

Communication--To better represent myself and clear up any preconceptions and misperceptions; to show what's on my needles and give an inkling of the designs in the works; to encourage knitters to appreciate the unique qualities of my yarns and why they work best for certain projects.

Location--To present a central place where fans can see a list of all the various publications to which I've contributed, a calendar of events I'm participating in, and errata from patterns in my books; and to link to sites where knitters are discussing my work.

So stay tuned.