I created this website to share information with other knitters and to document my knitting projects.

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

My Ravelry ID is knittingjenny.

I learned to knit in 1996.

I had just moved from hot and humid 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 am inclined to knit with all-natural fibers and wooden needles.

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

My stash is my secret shame.

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

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.

Can you guess the year? It's 1957. In the ice skating party, Mom is third from the left, with the pom-poms on her skates. Check out the handknit scarves and mittens in this photo. I just love it!

I was born 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 won the 2009 Dale of Norway knitting design contest, in the accessories division.

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, tap dancing in the 1936 movie, Follow the Fleet.

I love the sailor suits in this photo.

I have a soft spot for anything sailor.

My second Master's thesis was titled, "Uniform and Uniformity: The Development of British Royal Navy Sailor Uniform and Its Influence on Civilian Fashion in Victorian England, 1846-1901."

I would be embarrassed to admit how many articles of sailor-inspired clothing I presently own.

I love sewing.

I love designing hats.

I love a trip to the moviehouse.

I love reading blogs.

I discovered the secret Liberty fabric shop.

I am an aggressive blocker.

Blocking wires changed my life.

When I was in middle school, our family moved from upstate New York to 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, is of me and my siblings, at Christmas 1973.

The photo, below, is the five of us in 1998, dressed in our professions. 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).

I've traveled and worked around the world.

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 long scarf with bits of Mom's leftover yarn.

Do you know what a KnittingJenny is?