Some of 86-year-old Shirley Atkinson’s craft ended up in this prize-winning photo in this week’s Auckland City Harbour News. The paper called for photos related to the Rugby World Cup. https://www.piha.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/page0000002.jpg

Adam Baine took a photo of cafe Garnet Station with owner Verity George hanging Shirley’s booties knitted in the RWC colours in the window. It’s “a bit of a twist on bunting,” says Verity.

Good on you Shirley! Shirley is a great craftswoman with a real creative bent, as anyone whose seen her iced cakes will attest.