Welcome to another installment of ‘Fellow Fibre Friends’!  This week, we meet Jennifer Riester, who is a knitter and tech editor (ie, she edits knitting patterns.)  You can find her on her blog, Jen Knittng Around.

@jenknittingaround

I guess I’ll start at the beginning.

When I was a child my grandmother taught me how to crochet. Sadly, it never caught on with me. I did a lot of cross stitching and have had brief flings with scrapbooking. Fast forward to the summer of 2003, my best friend was pregnant with twin girls and for reasons that are still unclear for me I knew I had to knit for them. Quick note – I was completely unaware of the big surge in knitting at the time, it was a feeling deep inside me. I did not know anyone who knit and I really was not into the blog or internet…