Hong Kong artist, chunky-yarn evangelist, reluctant teacher who became a willing one.

Annie trained in Textile Design at Central Saint Martins in London, then spent several years as a visual merchandiser for an international luxury brand — incorporating crochet and knit into window displays as a quiet act of insistence.

In 2017 she opened a Facebook page called The Mint Box Studio to share her own work. Within months people were asking to learn. The page became classes; the classes became a small Sheung Wan studio.

Since then she has taught more than 3,000 students across one-to-one lessons, public workshops, and corporate team-building sessions. The studio remains small on purpose — most workshops cap at four people so nobody is reading over a stranger's shoulder.