Kathryn: Buyer

Kathryn sources the very best products for your designs, she is head quality checker making sure every tiny gemstone, finding and tool meets our required high standards. Kathryn can always be relied upon across the team and often helps come up with new ways to show off our products and come up with design ideas to inspire you.

Favourite bird you've spotted in the Kernowcraft garden?

As a keen birdwatcher and lover of all things nature, I quite often spend my lunchtimes looking out for anything interesting in the Kernowcraft garden! I have seen lots of birds and wildlife in the garden, all lovely and great to see, so it's quite hard to pick a favourite! I think that one of my favourite birds has to be a Fieldfare. They are only winter visitors to Cornwall, but when it's cold they sometimes come to the garden to enjoy the windfall apples from our tree together with lots of other birds. It's lovely watching them all.

Your go-to jewellery making book?

I have to confess that I do own quite a few jewellery making books! But I would have to say that the Jewellery Making: A Complete Course For Beginners by Jinks McGrath would be my book for anything silversmithing and Magical Metal Clay Jewellery - Sue Heaser for anything metal clay. They are both really good books with lots of helpful information.

How many rings are you wearing right now?

Hmmm, yes I do wear quite a lot of rings!! As I am writing this I am wearing 10 rings, 3 of them I have made, and the other 7 all have sentimental value, as does most of the other jewellery that I wear.