A knitter and seamstress from a very young age, my love for textiles & design runs deep. As a teenager working in a fabric shop, my favourite memory was being tasked with unpacking the exquisite, imported materials from all over the world. Feeling the textures, admiring the colours and weave of the fabrics and yarns, this was my happy place. It was a natural progression to then start creating my o
wn designs. Although my passion for creating with my imagination and my hands never left me, life, as so often is the case, pulled me in many different directions. It was during a particularly stressful time that I found myself gravitating back to my innate creativity. Knitting by hand with beautiful yarns the first pair of mittens that would eventually evolve into Judith Lorraine Creative Studio. From that point forward I have been creating my mittens, spending much of my spare time searching out beautiful yarns and accents from around the world I look to nature for a lot of my creative inspiration and spend a great deal of my time on the shores of Lake Superior working on my designs. An added bonus has been the involvement of my elderly parents in my dream. In the early stages of my Mom’s journey through dementia she took great pleasure in knitting some of my cuffs for me. I will always cherish the time we spent together creating and choosing colour pallets. The textures and softness of the mitts continued to soothe her right to her final days. My Dad has proudly taken over the lining department. At the age of 94 he continues to cut out all of my fleece liners. It has been a great source of pride and purpose in his life.
