Hi! I’m Kristen

Engineer by day, knitter by night

A type-A personality through-and-through. INTJ (Architect) for you Myers Briggs people. I enjoy puzzles, math, reading (fantasy), and anything fiddly. I love learning obscure things and creating things with my own hands, but I have a secret; I'm pretty lazy. I only like making things that look complicated. Whether it's my knitting patterns, macarons, or the food I make for dinner, one thing remains consistent - I want it to look impressive, but I want an easy to remember replicating pattern to get me to the final product. You'll see this a lot in my patterns. I enjoy using colorwork with repeating geometric patterns to introduce one advanced technique.

I started knitting in 2015. I was a 20-year-old stressed-out college student with a lot of anxiety and little-to-no coping skills. I bought a pair of straight, metal knitting needles and 1 skein of the squeakiest moss green acrylic that was ever produced. The knitting needles were 3 sizes too small for the yarn, but I had no clue you needed to match yarn and needles. I went home and watched beginner knitting videos on YouTube until I felt comfortable with the knit stitch. I went back to the store and bought the right size needles, and 3 more skeins (different dye lots) of that horrific yarn. I made a barely usable scarf over the next few weeks, and that was that - I was hooked. In 2020 I got serious about knitting, and I started to really evaluate my knitting and learning new techniques. In 2021 I entered my first Sock Madness competition, and I realized just how much I didn't know about knitting. I fell in love with just how artistic and fiddly knitting could be! Over the last few years, I have taken all that I have learned through Sock Madness, Japanese, Nordic and brioche knitting techniques and developed my own style. I found I didn't want to knit basic patterns to learn new techniques, so I began knitting things that incorporated what I wanted to practice and charting patterns that related to my favorite books. In 2023 I wrote my first knitting patterns and hosted my first test knits.