Meet the Author – Christine LeGrow and Shirley Scott

Christine LeGrow and Shirley Scott love and treasure the traditional knitting of Atlantic Canada. Christine owns Spindrift Handknits, a St. John’s, Newfoundland, based business for all ages. Shirley Scott, Shirl the Purl, a retired librarian, loves to write about and praise traditional knitting. In her early years she wrote Canada Knits, a book on the history of knitting in Canada, an accomplishment that opened many doors.

Together with their publisher Boulder Books they created an award-winning series of Saltwater knitting books: Saltwater Mittens, Saltwater Classics, Saltwater Gifts, and Saltwater Socks. These dearly loved volumes feature fashion forward versions of the warm outdoor clothing that has kept Canadians warm for centuries and tell about life on our far-off wave-lapped island. Christine and Shirley live to knit!

Meet Christine and Shirley on both Saturday morning and Sunday morning (exact times TBD) in the “Meet the Author” booth in the Main Exhibition Annex.