About Me
‘ello. Let me just start with saying I write wretched bios. I do like reading them however, so I will attempt something and hope the Grammar Avengers do not find me.
The BioData
We’ll start with the obvious, my name’s Jennifer Tallapaneni and I live in Dallas, Texas with the hubby, Mr. PieKnits and our endlessly amusing puppy, Aejaz. I consider myself a displaced northerner, having moved here a few years ago from my hometown in Iowa. The weather here I do greatly appreciate but while trying to avoid being assimilated into using the phrase “y’all”. The day job is multimedia/web development that lends itself well to playing with more techie things related to knitting/crafting at night.
The making stuff part
I have not been knitting for any great length of time but have been making funky things long before I’d learned the term “crafting”. I went to school for Commercial Art/Graphic Design and did some Fine Art work as well. I feel with knitting it just ‘clicked’, to add to the overuse of that phrase. My combined love of art/design and mathematics/programming quickly led to me discovering their happy marriage in knitting design. I love the combination of creativity and technical details. I’m a dual-minded kind of gal.
For more random info – I had a little question/answer session for a blogiversary here and here.
I really like your hats! No Etsy shop?
I do have an Etsy shop for my patterns, pieknits.etsy.com. However I just sell patterns, no finished items- thanks!
Hey Jennifer. I’m knitting a Topi cadet hat for Christmas for my son (knitty.com pattern by you) and have a question regarding the slipped stitch rib – do you slip the stitch knit wise or purl wise? Love the pattern btw. Thanks.
You slip the stitch purl wise. I always assume unless stated otherwise, slipped stitches are worked purl wise. Thanks!