Welcome to Yvonne's one stop resource
for all your miniature-knitting needs
THE TEAM
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meet the team.....
First let me introduce Caroline.
Caroline, as well as being good friend and next door neighbour, is my part time help-mate,
she may well answer your phone query, or pack and post your goods,
but she also winds yarn, sorts patterns, and lots of other behind the scene chores.
Caroline also provides moral support, cups of coffee and a second home for my dog.
Then there is the rest of Carolines family.
Husband Ian and the two boys Alex and Ben.
Alex, very patiently responds to my frequent shouts of "what the .... is wrong with the computer now?",
and the whole family can often be found in my garden helping me out with one job or another.
Did I mention Hilda?
Hilda is my beautiful Basset Hound.
She is obstinate, self willed, determined, very demanding, very affectionate, and very funny.
Her contribution to mini knitting stuff is to keep us all smiling.
finally there is me, Yvonne.
I am Mum to Mark and Penny,
and Grandma to Daniel, Jack, Daisy, Ruth and Thomas.
I also have a step-son Stephen, who was 8 years old when his Dad and I married.
He and his wife Brenda have a daughter and two sons, and four grandchildren,
so I am also a great-grandmother, well sort of.
Tucked away in the Worcestershire countryside, Hilly and I live in a small, rather quirky and very old
cottage.
Our garden is very large, and includes an ancient orchard,
The beautiful knarled old trees are not conventionally fruitful, but they are amazingly well dressed in mistletoe,
which explains why our home is called Kissing Tree Cottage.
but why miniature knitting?
Setting up Mini Knitting Stuff has been, (I suppose still is) my retirement challenge.
I am not a collector of miniatures and I don't own a dolls house,
But I am a professional Fashion and knitwear designer,
so my starting point is always Fashion.
Translating full-sized fashion ideas and pattern cutting techniques
into 1/12 scale knitwear is challenging but also great fun,
and seeing a tiny doll wearing the finished product is suprisingly satisfying.
Although I have to admit that when knitting, the 'seeing bit' is becoming rather more difficult than it used to be.
Click on 'next page'
for a very brief CV or if you would like to see some pictures of my past work
