I have had many teachers, and no where is this more true than in knitting.
I learned to wrap yarn around needles first from my mom. I learned how to make the stitches fly from Anni from Denmark who lived with us for a year. I made my first sweater in college and broke the boyfriend knitting rule quickly after that.
(Amusingly, I married a man who doesn’t wear sweaters because he finds even flannel oppressive in the winter. I still knit for him though. And all three kids had many sweaters when they were small. I think they are able to knit their own sweaters now, and two of them know how)
Friends taught me many things, like what fun it is to knit together over a round of drinks, how to make yarn on a spindle, how to rip and do it better the next time.
I was a college English teacher for about 10 years, where I learned about the joy of approaching material with students. I eventually had to leave academic life to take care of my youngest. House bound for awhile, I connected with the knitting scene on the Internet where passion is literally viral.
Knitting has since inspired me to write a blog, then articles for magazines, to help start an online magazine, and to offer patterns for the things I primarily make for myself. I do teach a few times a year at select events and locally at favorite yarn shops. If you have a question about a pattern or if you’d like to see my class menu, send me an email.
Visit my Ravelry page for my patterns.
