Woof Design

Woof Design is a Newfoundland cottage craft industry - celebrating it's 30th anniversary in 2007. There have been as many as 70 people at once working in their homes, weaving, crocheting and knitting garments - mainly with mohair.

At first I was the only production person - weaving. I designed a vest when I first bought a knitting machine. I took orders for 12 and once I had finished them I realized that I did not want to be a knitter.

So my neighbour Sadie started to knit for me, then two of her sisters, and within a few years there were 70 people knitting, weaving and crocheting in their own homes for Woof Design

I sold Woof in 1995, two years after we "emigrated" to Vancouver Island with much regret. I loved working with the women of Newfoundland. I was the only outsider who was part of the operation - apart from our salesman, John Beale, who was the only man and worked out of Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia.