Our Story

Hiya, I'm Katie,

Left-handed, coffee-drinking, night-owl, knitting-obsessed, running-newbie from Canada and I am the woman behind the scenes here at The Knit Nook. Our family moved to New Zealand in 2021 and this new season of life is freeing me up for yarn related adventures. I am so here for it. As a long time knitter I have a passion for creativity in itself and the community it nurtures. Knitting has been a comfort many times in my life and it brings me so much joy that I am able to share that with our local knitting community. 

About our store...

The Knit Nook is a boutique online Yarn Store. We stock carefully curated, squishy NZ wool, beautiful hand-dyed yarns, high quality needles and hooks for knitting or crochet, and notions of all sorts.

We value joy and community building in the making space. Knitting, crochet, and all other fibre related arts. Nothing is better than coming together and having a laugh and a yarn over some yarn.

*We had a small retail space in downtown Napier, Hawkes Bay, from 2022-2025 but we now enjoy the flexibility of being solely online (with the occasional pop-up event) while juggling family life and our other family business, The Classic Butcher. Below is a little watercolour painting done for us of the shop in its early days.