Book description
When it comes to knitting, who knows better than our nan? If you get
tangled in a ball of wool, she's always the first person you call to
help you sort your cross stitch from your cable.
While recruiting for her fledgling online knitwear company, Katie
Mowat swiftly realised that it was mainly older women, namely
grannies, who were volunteering their services, and so Grannies Inc.
was born. Since 2009 they have gone from strength to strength, and
from one product (beanies), they now design and produce a whole range
of knitwear. Her crack squad of 15 grannies will be contributing their
'purls' of wisdom and patterns to help the new knitting generation in
this attractive book. With knitting patterns for snoods, legwarmers,
slouch socks, laptop cases and beanies, you'll be cool and cosy in no
time.
As the grannies say, 'May your bobbin always be full.'
Katie Mowat started knitting while studying at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, where the craft had become a craze. She began
recruiting knitters by putting a small ad on a knitting website and with
the number of responses she rapidly set up her business. The original
beanie design on the site, which the grannies knit to order, has since
been expanded to a whole range of accessories. Katie now lives in South
London.
