This week we're turning the Spotlight to our talented 2024 Designers! Join us each day as we get to know a different 2024 Pattern Designer and learn what inspired their design!
Teresa learned to crochet from her grandmother when she was a teenager. She taught herself to knit English style in the early 2000’s, working from a book after her children were in bed. A few years later, a friend taught her to knit Continental style, and that has been her preference ever since. Teresa has taken classes in knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving at yarn shops, retreats, and at John C. Campbell Folk School. She currently owns three weaving looms; two spinning wheels; lifetime supplies of yarn, unspun fiber, and dyes; and too many knitting needles and crochet hooks to count.
Teresa is also a glass beadmaker and popular beadmaking instructor. In her day job, she works to improve literacy in our community as executive director at Friends of Literacy. She and her husband live in north Knoxville, where they are renovating an older home.
Behind the Design:
I love visiting yarn shops with friends during the Yarn Tour and collecting the tour-exclusive mini skeins. Because I work full-time, I never get to all the shops, but I still want to make something special from the skeins I have as a souvenir of the experience. The Yarn Tour Sampler Sock grew out of my desire to create a project solely from my mini skeins.
Connect with Teresa:
Email: brittaintk@gmail.com
Website: https://www.brittainbeads.com/
Ravelry: brittaintk
Facebook: /brittainbeads
Instagram: @brittainbeads
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