Bangarra Dance Costume

Bangarra Dance Company's performance Patyegarang has kicked off this week at the Sydney Opera House.  This is another wonderful commission from Jennifer Irwin, Costume Designer for Bangarra; who is great to work with as she gives me free reign with the design of the pieces.  I can't wait to see this beautiful performance when I'm in Sydney next week.  

New Construction Stockist

This beautiful shop; Poet's Ode in the Adelaide Hills, is now stocking our range of Construction Knitting patterns, Wooli yarn and Wooden Knitting Needles.  Their ethos reads:

"Our aim is to support ethically made/ sourced goods both locally and abroad, we feel strongly about being part of the global artisan market. With a focus on handcrafted, organic and natural, simple classic design and pieces that will be heirlooms of the future...." Poet's Ode

KNITWEAR DESIGN Book

A new book by Carol Brown, Knitwear Design, published by Laurence King (UK). I am featured in there albeit small; on page 79 in the UNDERSTANDING YARNS chapter with the images of cascading wool on my studio shelves, and sample sheets of yarn; also on page 98 with an image of Wool Collar from a previous collection in the chapter on TEXTURE.

BANGARRA DANCE COSTUME

Just completed a costume commission for The Bangarra Dance Theatre's next performance 'Patyagarang', opening at Sydney Opera House 13 June, followed by a countrywide tour.

FASHION KNITWEAR book by Jenny Udale

I am so honored to be included in this book of 40 international designers written by Jenny Udale and published by Laurence King (UK); this is a sumptuous book documenting the practice and process of progressive knitwear design profiling Missoni, Pringle of Scotland, Sonia Rykiel, Sandra Backlund amongst others.

Interview on the MillMia Blog.

MillaMia is a wool design and pattern product that we stock at Gather consisting of superfine merino reflecting a culture of true Swedish modernism, with classic and timeless garment styles.  Read my interview on their blog here.

Wish I was back there.....

Abel Tasman, South Island, New Zealand.

Viva Magazine

My new season collection is in Auckland's Herald newspaper magazine, Viva, today! Beautiful photograph by Pam Tinning, and styled by Sarah Bell.

Winter Collection

Handknits going to Taylor stores......

Macrame' Installation

Gather's Macrame (supplied by Spoonful Design) installation at The Autumn Salon event last Saturday night at Aroha. 

The Autumn Salon

The Autumn Salon is a showcase of fashion, food, music, poetry and art for girls only this Saturday night / with new collections in store Zambesi, NomD, Karen Walker, and Me, held at Aroha on Saturday 1st March.  This will be an amazing night out in Napier, + I will be creating a special Gather autumn installation for the night.  More information and tickets here.

Shapeshifting Conference at AUT

Shapeshifting, is a Textile and Fashion design conference at Auckland Univeristy, and is probably the most exciting industry event to be held in this part of the world, with Nick Cave (USA), Gareth Pugh (The Mad Prince of British Fashion), Otto Van Busch (New York's Parsons School of Design), coming over.  Wow!!

New Collaboration with Patons

I'm celebrating another collaboration with Australian Country Spinners for their Paton's yarn range.  They have have adapted my Construction No 4. triangle knitting pattern for their chunky wool/alpaca blend called INCA which comes in 18 colours. Available at all Spotlight stores in Australia and New Zealand this winter.

WallFlower Workshop

Gather is holding a one day knitting workshop using naturally dyed yarns of silk, linen, cotton and wool; to create leaves and petals that can transform into sculptural broaches, scarfs, necklaces or garlands.  Saturday 25 January from 11am to 3pm.  To register your interest email or telephone the shop as places are limited.

 

New Years Eve Outdoors

Set up camp in greater Hawke's Bay to celebrate NYE and cooked up an outdoor mini feast.  We had sun, thunderstorms, wind and rain then more sun all in 2 days.  Whewhhh!!

But not for long....

Gather reopens on Friday 3rd January with a SALE of recent season knitwear, samples and seconds which runs for 2 days only.

Aaaahhh, some time off....

An hour and a half drive north east of Napier leads to the Kaweka Forest where we parked the car and followed the track to the Mohaka River.  An hour's walk opened up to a perfect soft patch of grass for a picnic amongst the wild flowers and kereru and a fresh water pool swim amongst the trout.  Don't have any Kinfolkesque action shots,  but you can see the landscape through my lense. Pretty amazing spot to unwind.