About Juju

I'm a busy maker with my finger in many pies. Yum, pie!

I write craft books - rag rug making, beading, quilting, you name it - and never stop making. A million years ago, I trained as a fashion designer, then completed an MA in knitted textiles. When I was very young I also ran a knitwear business, selling handknits across North America.

Cloth first

I love colour knitting mixed with a bit of texture. It is all about the fabric for me. I hate zippers in knits, wish I knitted more cardigans, and still suspect I may be the world's fastest knitter, though this has not been formally proved.

I am the designer behind Juju's Loops. Teaching has included knit nights at Loop in London, Fair Isle colour workshops, and practical sessions on lace, texture, wraps and finishing.

London and Ontario

I am Canadian and have lived in London, England for more than twenty years, with summers outside Kingston, Ontario. Those two places - the London workroom and the lake - keep turning up in the clothes, palettes, paintings and stories collected here.

Making is how I think: colour first, then fabric, then the question of how it all fits together.

This journal gathers the useful parts of that process. Some entries are careful tutorials. Others are notes from the middle of a project, because the unfinished thinking is often the most interesting part.