Tony Perez's Enchanted Knits

Knitting is my least favorite medium because I wish to knit without making my work look like knitting. Since that is next to impossible, I f...

A very early work, possibly 1997 Freedom dress, made of stash mercerized cotton thread for my eldest granddaughter Angelique who was in grad...

Would have finished _The Golden Fleece_ last night, but felt drowsy and had to set it aside to sleep (the objective of my reading in bed). F...

Been writing mostly during the pandemic, but my youngest sister Sylvia managed to create these during the lockdown in Sydney.

Knitting is an excellent method of creative visualization once your mind can operate on two, parallel levels: your work and your visualizati...

Needlework will always keep your mind sharp, pun intended. It also calms one's nerves by means of the repetitious, compulsive, predictab...

  Angelique as Bubbles in handknitted, cotton, Powerpuff dress. From the late 1990s through the mid-2000s I submitted 20 original handknitti...

Let your day unwind from a skein and wind into the ball of yarn that is ready to be knitted into a work of art.

Time is a work of knitted fabric. It is the past that is tangible reality, the present at the tip of your needles with your power to take t...

Needlework is addictive because it marks both time and space.

You embroider your day with colored threads on fine fabric.

Do not bother to react to other knitters who try to put you down. Otherwise that would be equivalent to casting purls before swine. 

This piece is titled "Memories of a Sunday Afternoon". It was part of my 1991 fiber art exhibit _Cubao After Dark_ at the Cultural...

Sometimes I believe that human beings conceived of knitting while contemplating spider webs.

My sister Sylvia's December 2016 office project in Sydney, Australia:

I've been knitting for more than 30 years now. While working on projects I noted that the yarn I used had a unique texture depending on ...

Finished my wuxia scarf in December 2015 but couldn't find the right model to photograph it on. This full-length piece with a shaped hoo...

Never snap up new yarn and then frenziedly produce something with it to show others. You will end up looking at others' knitting like a ...

My sister Sylvia's team leader asked for help decorating the office for Christmas this year.

Sometimes it is a good idea to combine different thread textures in your work to prevent it from looking like it was made out of a kit. Al...

Knit a painting. Paint a story. Write a piece of knitted work.

It took me quite some time to knit these tops because they were executed with thin, Philippine cotton thread on small-size needles. Angeliqu...

It is the purl that makes the knit, and the knit that makes the purl. So is love completed and supported by friendship, for there can be n...

Although some knitters take pride in being able to do so, it is actually inadvisable to knit in front of the TV set. It increases the probab...

Knitting also takes you to that altered state of consciousness in which your psyche generates ideas for novels and paintings.

Knitting is the discipline that makes your magic work.

Work in progress

Do your best to make the seam between the fabrics of August and September smooth, clean, and visually pleasing.

I always have problems with scenes in movies and on TV in which someone is knitting something--it's always usually a tiny, insubstantial...

Caught another replay of Swordsman II on Screen RED again. It's an interpolation of the life of Chee Kung, though, in this movie, the p...

Like clouds, balls of thread unwind and reveal different shapes. The heart of a ball of Philippine mercerized cotton thread. It was ...

While resting from knitting, one of my greatest joys is picking up a favorite pen and writing lines on good-quality paper, allowing the ink ...

A devoted knitter will proceed with his work even in the hottest of heat waves.

This pullover is for my first granddaughter, Angelique Pearl. Again I took only her body measurements and, as my work prog...

The verbs "unravel" and "ravel" mean the same thing. Personally, however: 1) I use the word "unravel" to sig...

Having to unravel your work is really an intrinsic part of knitting. Enjoy it: you must know how to enjoy yin as you know how to enjoy yang....

If we are to expect great progress in gender equality, we should already stop conditioning people to associate pink with girls and blue with...

I have tried them all, and, at age 64, have decided that my preference for painting are hog bristle brushes (as opposed to sable or nylon br...

Knitting is poetry, for every piece you knit is a poem. Every knitter is a visual poet.

Knitting is literature: every stitch a letter, every group of stitches a word, every row a sentence.

Knitting is a wonderful act of creation: from a mere skein of thread it is possible to stitch anything of any size and shape. The most phe...

A hard-touch massage after a week of knitting is sheer heaven.

It often happens that I have the urge to knit whenever someone is ill, or is in need of new values or a lifestyle, or needs a major change i...

Knitting is therapeutic because it distracts the ego from one's source of anxiety. However, it is the duty of every knitter to address...

Even a master knitter will count stitches on every row as he knits. It not only ensures that the number of stitches is correct, but also e...

Freedom from ribbing is a knitter's true freedom.

  I knitted this pullover for my third granddaughter, Aubrey Rose, taking only her body measurements and knowing my t...

Alchemy is present in needlework and knitting--or at least in the materials that both require--in a fairy tale titled "Rumpelstiltskin...

Clotho knits the days and the nights. At sunrise she uses rose-colored yarn, then switches to azures and yellows as the day progresses, then...

Knitting rows while contemplating something is equivalent to walking a labyrinth. The mind, after all, is capable of operating on several ...

This pair of gauntlets was made of metallic silver trimming and black yarn. It was worn by the character Inigo in my two-act, children's...

Switching from one type of yarn to another on a work is like lighting a variety of colorful fireworks in sequence.

When knitting, ensure that: 1. Your spine is erect, and that you do not gradually slouch or slump in the course of your knitting. 2. You...

I collected bowls of antique beads over the years. I re-strand them into necklaces whenever I have time. It has a therapeutic effect on me....