About us
Creative Yarns & Knits is a family business with many aspects. Geoff and Gayle both hand dye yarns, Gayle designs knitwear and makes up the samples, Geoff creates one of a kind kiln dichroic and fused glass jewellery. Nicole (currently at university) is the house model. Biff the cat is the supervisor and mascot.
Nicole is now spinning yarns to help fund her education, have a look at her website to see & buy!
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Our background
Gayle has spent her whole life working with textiles, from spinning and weaving, sewing, knitting, crochet, felting and wearable art.
Gayle is an international award winning quilt artist. She was the first non American/Canadian quiltmaker to ever be accepted into the US Hoffman Quilt Challenge in 1995. In 2005 she was the first person in the world to have three entries in the challenge accepted in three different categories.
Gayle won the Waikino art award in 2004 and was guest artist the following year.
She has won numerous awards in art quilts, spinning and weaving and wearable art garments, and many items have traveled the world with various exhibitions.
Currently Gayle has been working on a range of knitwear patterns to work with our handdyed yarns.
Geoff creates one off jewellery pieces.
He individually hand cuts each piece of glass, thoughtfully placing them to form a one off hand crafted original piece of jewellery. The design is then kiln fired in our professional studio to meet our exacting standards. After firing each piece is hand finished.
As each piece is hand cut, no two pieces are ever the same, guaranteed.
When Geoff has the time he also likes to create mixed media fine art.
He also has a real green thumb and can make anything grow.
Nicole is also very creative, having won the Waikino Youth Art Award in 2005. In 2004 she won the Tauranga Garden and Art Youth Textile Award.
She also makes interesting jewellery.
Currently art and craft are taking a bit of a break while she is studying for a Science and Primary Teaching Degrees at Waikato University.
She is still having to do duty as our house model however.
Nicole is now spinning yarns to help fund her education, have a look at her website to see & buy!
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