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About Ruth

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I grew up on a farm in North Queensland.  There was no TV, no DVDs, internet or electronic games.  We made our own entertainment.  I was fortunate as my mother taught me to sew and knit, which I was doing when I first went to school, and the wife of one of the other farmers volunteered at our one teacher school to teach the girls crafts.  I recall practicing my knitting using nails and string – a far cry from the luxury fibres (alpaca, superfine merino and silk) that I use now!  A little later I was given a “Barbie” doll – the ideal subject for my fashion creations.  But being ever practical,  I never considered a career in fashion, and went off to University to study finance.  Apart from the years I spent at University, throughout my life my hands have never been idle but were kept busy with one form of craft or another in my leisure time.  Now that I have left the “rat race” I have time to pursue my love of fine fibres in the spinning, knitting and weaving offered through Witta Woollens.
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