Get to know us
April and Lara met in Austin, Texas and have been friends for over a decade. They love meeting up at each others houses to play games or watch shows and craft. They have joined their talents together in hope of providing quality hand made items for those interested.
Lara has been an avid knitter for thirteen years and is very gifted at detail-work/fine gauges, adjusting patterns, and particularly good at math to ensure a garment fits the dimensions of folks she’s making wearables for. She enjoys incorporating beadwork in her handknits- which adds a lot of beauty and texture to her work. Some of her favorite past projects include: a leaf hat, a stuffed Yoda figurine, and a blue and green leaf knitted blouse that features gorgeous color work (pictured below).
She started knitting in 2011 after having her second colicky child. Knitting helped her manage her stress after long days tending to young children. She first knitted baby blankets and has made one for all of her nieces/nephews, now totalling over twenty babies. She learned that she loved to knit and quickly started to branch out to making more complicated projects (sweaters, hats, socks, towels, mittens, & more!) She also learned that she could quickly increase her skills and loved how it helped to have visible progression in a project to show at the end of the day. One of her favorite things is finishing a project and seeing someone really enjoy it. She’s had many people ask her when she’ll open a shop of her very own and she’s pleased to be joining with a friend to create beautiful and heartfelt knitted items for their customers!
FUN FACTS ABOUT LARA
She knit most of her way through labor with her third child.
Weirdest thing she ever knitted: a dinosaur that was really challenging!
First learning cables was challenging because of how tightly she knits, but she quickly got the hang of it.
Favorite foods: pizza with arugula and goat cheese, Brookshire dark chocolate with pomegranate or blueberry, chocolate with almonds.
She has three kids: 15, 13, and 11.
Favorite animals: bunnies! Also, sloths, pandas and llamas.
Travel: loves exploring cities, walking around and learning the history and culture. Some of her favorite cities she’s visited: San Francisco, Santo Domingo, DR, several great cities in Germany (the castles are crazy and there are a lot of stairs), and Bath, UK.
Her husband is Chinese-Canadian. They love watching and going to hockey games together.
Lara loves listening to music, singing soprano, and snorkeling when she isn’t busy running around with her children.
Friends love her energetic and kind hugs.
Lara Yu
*Special thanks to Britta at The Writing Consultancy for helping put together this bio
April Buchanan
