Norah Gaughan

About

Raised by artists in the wilds of the Hudson Valley (her father was a well known science fiction illustrator in his day), Norah was immersed in both art and the needle arts from an early age and honed her skills participating in 4-H for much of her childhood. One of those annoying students who always sat in the front row and raised her hand too much, Norah went on to earn a degree in Biology and Art from Brown University. During the years that followed she concentrated on her greatest love, knitting. She worked first as a freelancer for yarn companies and knitting magazines, then as the design director of JCA and, more recently, at Berroco, where she headed up the design team and published 16 eponymous booklets. Norah’s upbringing, schooling, and experience coalesce in her two hardcover volumes, Knitting Nature , and Norah Gaughan’s Knitted Cable Sourcebook .