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How a childhood hobby turned Trevor Smith into a global crochet icon – ABC News
Trevor Smith wasn’t like most farm boys growing up in the ’70s. Now he’s taken his incredible crochet creations from his living room to the world.
Trevor Smith didn’t exactly grow up in the world of fine art.
As a boy living on his family’s grazing farm in Joanna, South Australia, he was a long way from the flash galleries his work appears in today.
“There wasn’t a huge art presence,” Mr Smith said.
Unlike his brother and sister who kept busy outdoors with sports and animals, Trevor preferred to be inside with his mother.
“She was a very creative person, sewing, knitting, crocheting, that sort of thing,” Mr Smith said.
“I always wante…
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