A short history

In 2008, while attending the Design Indaba in Cape Town, I was inspired by a presentation from a London-based company to make a range of knitted toys, the Knitwits. During 2008 I made 50 Knitwits – Original Knitwits Limited Edition. I took them in to the office one day to show my colleagues and sold most of them that day. Very nice, I know. Then in 2010 I made a second range of 50 Knitwits – Original Knitwits Limited Edition Plain & Purl. Concurrently in April 2010 I started making soft toys using fabric, and these were to be the PrettyUglys. They have been a great gift at baby showers and I have received orders to make more as a consequence. Almost everyone that has bought a PrettyUgly has giving me advise on how to market them and I have been tardy in putting this good advise into action. Christmas 2013 a friend gave me a book: We make dolls and this was the motivation to move forward and hopefully realise the dream at last ;-)
The pic below is from way back when.