Top 10 author visits Cooroy Library

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Three times she's made it into the National Top 10 Bestseller List. She lives in Doonan. Her books are about knitting.

Visit Cooroy Library on 23 July and say hello to Loani Prior, the Sunshine Coast's most successful and prolific knitting writer.

Starting out with the Wallace House Knitters and Spinners Group, Loani has gone on to rack up three books in the National Top 10 Bestseller List.

‘When that first book was published in 2008, I couldn't have imagined the Knit Change in store for me,' she said.

‘It's The Bloke's fault. He took me to meet his family en masse one Christmas and, well, what was one to do but make a big impression with a great display of talent and generosity. I presented 15 stupendous tea-cosies on their pots accompanied by matching eggcosies on their cups all packed the same way all delivered at the same time. How could they not love me after that? And so, the tea-cosy nonsense began.'

Loani has a jam-packed year ahead which includes a travelling exhibition, Portraits of a Tea Cosy.

This joint project with photographer Mark Crocker reveals tea cosies from around Australia, alongside stories of their tea-loving and knitting owners that have the same fun and quirky design passion as Loani.

‘I reckon a designer needs two qualities above all else and that is the gall to think you can do anything and a strong inner critic to recognise when you aren't quite there yet,' she said.

‘I have a lot of duds hiding in a deep dark box in my house, and no you can't see them.'

Loani is about to release her fourth book, Pretty Funny Tea Cosies, which hopefully will follow the success of the others, and be read by the over 90,000 tea cosy connoisseurs in countries such as Holland, France, Finland and Estonia.

For more information about Loani's visit to Cooroy Library and others great library events www.libraries.noosa.qld.gov.au or phone 5329 6555 to book your place.



24 June 2014