As a textile designer for film and television and the hand-knitting industries locally and internationally, I lived and travelled around the globe. In 2021 I returned to Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

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Growing up here as a child, I learned to hand-knit and I've always enjoyed learning a new technique or finding a new yarn quality to work with. Over the past five years I have started exploring digital knitting machines and I love combining my hand and digital crafts to push both practices.

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Since returning to Aotearoa I discovered we mostly sell our wool in its almost raw state. I wondered why we didn't tell the stories of its origin in beautiful textiles instead. 

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The Knit Shepherd Studio was set up to do just that. It's a small-scale prototyping lab and textile artist studio for New Zealand's natural fibres.