This may be the closest I ever came to being obsessive: I tea-dyed the ecru cotton background and dyed all the silks i n the motifs to capture the effect I wanted: to emulate a big slice of Sanderson William Morris wallpaper. No, I am not normal. I was nuts and very inspired by what my hero, Kaffe, was doing at the time. The central floral motif was all his.

Anyway, I became reunited with this pullover this week in Sydney when my niece brought it out for a reunion. I hadn’t seen it since I gave it to her 15 years ago. In that time it had traveled to England, Zimbabwe and finally nested in Australia. These pictures were taken in my rellies backyard beneath the Australian sun.