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Last month I did a little swap with my friend Amiria who just happens to be a very talented musician.

I knitted her a hat for the South Island winter and she sent me some new music - her latest album Autumn and a recording of her duo The Swan Sisters. Amiria has a beautiful voice and I love her songs – you can find her on Bandcamp here.

(There's also a great feature about her music on Radio NZ which you can find here).

Amiria chose the yarn from a photo of what I had in my knitting basket – and the 'Jul' pattern, which is now my all-time favourite hat to knit. (Here are my Ravelry notes.)

Amiria lives in Lyttelton but used to live near me in Wellington. When I was doing my journalism training a few years ago, she kindly let me practice my (rather fledgling) interview, shorthand and feature-writing skills on her. She was patient and open-hearted.