I've been knitting for five years. After college, I worked at a custom yarn store for a year, not only helping customers with knitting techniques and woes, but also creating the actual materials they would use to knit!
I tried to teach myself to knit for three years before it actually stuck- and it only stuck because a good friend of mine explained it in a way that that no book ever had.
I try to remember this every time that I show someone a knitting technique, because I'm a perfect example of how not everyone learns in the same way.
Because of this, it's really important to me when teaching knitting to show a variety of techniques, and to help the student understand what it is that they're doing, rather than just show them the motions to go through. When you understand the fundamentals of how knitting works, it makes everything easier, and much less daunting.
Aside from knitting, I love to tap dance, bake, write, and read. I grew up in Alaska, went to school in Montana, and now I've landed in the midwest, in Iowa City, Iowa.
