{"id":402183,"date":"2026-04-28T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:09:13","slug":"wool-in-the-bay-knitting-retreat-to-bring-fibre-fans-from-across-new-zealand-and-australia-to-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/402183\/","title":{"rendered":"Wool in the Bay knitting retreat to bring fibre fans from across New Zealand and Australia to Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The event features Australian knitting teacher Pru Raymond, alongside keynote speakers Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole, Auckland-based crochet artists and creators of Wharenui Harikoa, whose work has been exhibited in multiple museums, exploring identity, storytelling and belonging through fibre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Organiser Katie Andrews says the event is also expected to bring visitors into Napier and support local hospitality businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about wool,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s about building community. It\u2019s about people feeling seen, valued and included exactly as they are. Knitting and crochet? That\u2019s just the doorway in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Organiser Katie Andrews highlights the focus on building community and celebrating New Zealand's wool heritage.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Organiser Katie Andrews highlights the focus on building community and celebrating New Zealand&#8217;s wool heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">She said the idea grew after she moved her yarn business, The Knit Nook, online, leaving fewer opportunities for people to meet in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe spend so much of our lives working, scrolling, and being busy,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is an invitation to slow down, make something with your hands, and be around other people doing the same thing. It\u2019s meant to be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Andrews said the event also aims to connect fibre arts to New Zealand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/wool\/4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/wool\/4\/\">wool heritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere\u2019s something grounding about working with wool,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt connects us to the land, to the people who produce it, and to generations before us who made what they needed by hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Wool in the Bay will run from Saturday to Sunday, with tickets available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event features Australian knitting teacher Pru Raymond, alongside keynote speakers Lissy and Rudi Robinson-Cole, Auckland-based crochet artists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2840,95,85,1863,1561,3021,6757,8231,9517,5085,71,42,78,2454,118704,3607,117,43,384,21411,11588,207368,223,2044,61,40,38,41,39,8238,1316,12970,80,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-402183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-across","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-back","12":"tag-bay","13":"tag-bring","14":"tag-bringing","15":"tag-event","16":"tag-fans","17":"tag-fibre","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-in","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-knitting","23":"tag-napier","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-people","27":"tag-pressure","28":"tag-retreat","29":"tag-stitch","30":"tag-the","31":"tag-time","32":"tag-to","33":"tag-top-news","34":"tag-top-stories","35":"tag-topnews","36":"tag-topstories","37":"tag-under","38":"tag-when","39":"tag-wool","40":"tag-zealand","41":"tag-zealands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}