Raised in a small seaside town on the coast of South Wales, Brandon Mably has been interested in color and design since he was young. According to author/ designer and Mably mentor Kaffe Fassett, Mably has "one of the sharpest eyes for style" that he has ever come across. With no formal education in design, Mably made a radical career change from cooking to knitting in the late 1980's after a chance meeting with the world-famous

Fassett. From the moment he entered Fassett's studio, Mably realized the creative potential of knitwear designs and soon became Fassett's apprentice. For many years Mably organized the running of the Fassett studio, where Fassett trained him to knit, needlepoint, hook rag rugs, and grout mosaics. An inspiring teacher, Mably began traveling the world with Fassett doing workshops. Exotic locales such as Africa, Iceland, Guatemala, and India filled his designer's eye with inspiration and an explosion of color and pattern. An avid and enthusiastic teacher, Mably has learned one thing over the years - that most people have buried in them a sense of color and design. And it is helping his students discover that design sensibility that continues to inspire and motivate Mably's work. Mably's current workshop is entitled "Concentrating on Color in Design" and  focuses on knitting, needlepoint, and patchwork. Since taking over the teaching of knit workshops from Fassett altogether, he has taught throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, France, Germany, and the UK.
 

  BRILLIANT KNITS (The Taunton Press, October 2001), the first book of Mably's own knitwear designs, contains a stunning collection of unique designs for men and women. Rapidly gaining in popularity, Mably has emerged from the Kaffe Fassett Studio to become one of the leading lights in contemporary knitwear fashions and shares the same passion for color that can be found in Fassett's own designs. A fabulous assortment of colorful, contemporary sweaters, cardigans and other knitted garments, there is undoubtedly something for everyone in this collection.
 

  Mably's designs have also appeared in KAFFE'S CLASSICS (Ebury Press / Taunton Press, 2000), THE KNITTING BIBLE (Martingale, 2000), VOGUE KNITTING BABY BOOK (Butterick, 2000), MOSAICS (Ebury Press / Taunton Press, 1999), WELCOME HOME (Martingale, 1999), ROWAN CLASSICS (Ebury Press, 1998), GLORIOUS INTERIORS (Little Brown, 1995), and ULTIMATE BOOK OF KNITS ( Collins & Brown 2002) as well as in various issues of Vogue Knitting International. Mably has been featured in the Winter 2000 issue of Rowan's International Knit Magazine's "Designer Profile," Vogue Knitting International Magazine's Millennium Men's Issue, and UK's Knitting Magazine, 2004 edition, Get Creative Magazine August 2006 (Australia).