My email address is: jenny [at] knittingjenny [dot] com.

I learned to knit in 1996.

I had just moved from Texas to beautiful, mountainous, snowy Colorado.

I took a how-to-knit class at The Red Needle in Colorado Springs.

I was immediately hooked.

I love sewing.

I love designing hats.

I love a trip to the moviehouse.

I love reading blogs.

I am inclined to knit with all-natural fibers and wooden needles.

Right now, my favorite fibers are pure alpaca anything, Jamieson & Smith 2-ply jumper weight for Fair Isle, 100% superwash merino for socks, and Rowan Kid Silk Haze, especially in the green jelly color.

I get upset when I see cashmere diluted with man-made fibers.

I seldom, if ever, wear anything I knit.

My favorite color is green.

I also like purple and blue.

I have one blue eye and one brown eye.

Mom had blue eyes and red hair.

Mom was a knitter.

I was born and raised in upstate New York.

In 1976, my pet, Donald Duck, won the Blue Ribbon at the Altamont Fair in upstate New York.

In 1987 my original hand embroidery design won the Blue Ribbon at the Texas State Fair.

I now work in Singapore.

Before this, I worked in London for five years.

I've also worked in Tokyo for four years.

My favorite flowers are lavender lilac, pink dogwood, orange tiger lilies, red tulips, lily-of-the-valley, and bleeding heart.

I love to dance.

I especially love contra dance, swing dance, and the waltz.

I want to learn to tap dance.

That's Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, dancing in the 1936 movie, Follow the Fleet.

I am an aggressive blocker.

Blocking wires changed my life.

I went to school in small-town Texas, which explains a lot.

I am the middle child of five kids, which also explains a lot.

I was born in 1965. The photo above was taken at Christmas 1973. The photo below was taken in 1998, with all of us "en persona". This is not the first time we've taken a funny picture like this.

Yes, we all look alike, except Stephen (in the flight suit, holding the paper airplane).

By day, I'm a communications consultant to technology companies.

In retrospect, though, I would've loved to have been a milliner or a furrier or a sportswriter or a lawyer.

I often cast on after midnight.

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I had a KnittingJenny.

I knitted a very very long synthetic scarf of random stripes with Mom's leftover yarn, which I never wore.

Do you know what a KnittingJenny is?