About Me

I am a self-taught knitwear designer from Vancouver Island, BC. I was first introduced to knitting at the age of eight on a visit to a summer country fair with a family friend. In the following years, I knit brightly-coloured scarves for friends and family which they wore loyally. From then on, knitting ebbed and flowed through my life. In 2019, I began experimenting with my own designs and two years later, in 2021, started designing & knitting professionally.

My work and life are deeply intertwined. My designs very much reflect a life spent rambling the Pacific Northwest. Through my craft, I connect with and meditate on themes of memory and narrative, gender and sexuality, and the sanctity of the natural world. With each stitch, my work reaches for the stories that make up who we are, capturing core memories and the emotions felt in their retelling.

I frequently incorporate historical motifs and silhouettes, seeking to further interpret and understand histories of art, labour, and gender through my work. This stems partly from my own work as a historian and desire to bring light to and better understand the forgotten and undocumented histories of textile and fibre art. It also stems from my personal desire to connect with and commemorate the strong lineage of incredible women in my family who worked with textiles both professionally and privately. My use of historical techniques is a small way of recognizing all the incredible people that came before me.

My approach to design ultimately hinges on the interplay between colour and texture, through the composition of vibrant palettes, blends of natural fibers, and combined colourwork techniques. As wearable works of art, how each piece feels is just as important as how it looks. My intention is that each garment will continue to live and evolve with the people that wear them, taking on new meaning and attaching to new memories beyond those that I weave into them.