Tosh Talks

Welcome to our first podcast, Tosh Talks. Tosh Talks features interviews of our MT Collection No. 2 designers with our resident yarn whisperer, Sunne Meyer. In our third episode, Sunne talks with the amazingly talented Maysa Tomikawa about her design, Mountaineer. The voluminous Mountaineer shawl had us at first glance. Viewed vertically, it’s a landscape of mountain peaks, but wrapped around shoulders or a neck, this intarsia project is a geometric mystery of color and shape. We’re equally crazy about its creator. Maysa is a queer, Japanese-Brazilian designer living in Tokyo, a cancer survivor and self-avowed feminist. Her work has an unmistakable look—oversized, with clean interesting lines, and surprising color combinations. She knits in the Portuguese style, which was taught to her by her grandmother.

Welcome to our first podcast, Tosh Talks. Tosh Talks features interviews of our MT Collection No. 2 designers with our resident yarn whisperer, Sunne Meyer. We’re starting with the one-and-only Melanie Berg. Melanie may be the foremost shawl designer working today. She is known for mixing texture and color into wearable modern designs that are both playful and beautiful—and in this case more reflective. She designs to surprise—from mingling stripes with lace, to choosing unexpected color combinations. Melanie loves to collaborate with other creatives around the world, and her patterns have been published by yarn companies and knitting magazines globally. Her design for MT Collection No. 2 is called Up All Night.