I have been re-reading Jill Ker Conway memoir trilogy: The Road to Coorain (1989), True North (1995) and A Women’s Education (2001). For those who do not have the foggiest notion of who she is, let me give you a short overview. Jill Ker spent her childhood on an outback (read: isolated) farm in NSW, Australia. It was an unusual upbringing …
Monthly Archives: January 2018
I want to introduce my first knitwear collection. Featuring a casual but elegant theme, the Merino Collection is a small collection of cardigan designs linked by yarn, texture and design. The yarn I have chosen to use is Australian Superfine Merino by Cleckheaton. Incorporating textured stitch-work into a design is important to me. In this collection, I have used the Trinity …
As a Kiwi living in Australia, I struggle with this idea of place. The sunburnt country I now inhabit has its own beauty but on the whole, it does not enthral or capture my imagination or sense of place. My roots are in the four seasons of New Zealand and a relaxed way of life, of lush green and NZ …