I met Jessica through her etsy shop found here: LanaHandknitting
And was very excited she was local here in Portland! She makes darling knits out of delicious yarns, and I had to get some new hats for all of your beautiful newborns to use in our photo sessions. For my photographer friends…she does customs, but get in line behind me! 
So without further ado, Here is Jessica, and a few of my new hats, soon to be modeled on brand new little ones.
And here are a few words from Jessica:
“I have been knitting for seven or eight years now; I’ve always been crafty-minded, and I’d always wanted to learn to knit, but I’m left-handed and a kinesthetic dunce… so I asked some people who knew how to let me see what they were doing, and I played around a bit with some sticks and string until I had knots that looked pretty much like the right knots. SUCCESS!! Well, not quite, but I was definitely headed in the right direction. I resorted to free-designing and later consciously, intentionally designing my own knits early on, due to the lack of attractive/sensible/mistake-free patterns in The Knitting Universe. When I made the jump from simple colorwork and knit-and-purl patterned stitches to cable knitting a few years ago, I loved it– the texture, the sinuous movement, the ability to stylize themes three dimensionally! And it is *so* easy; I love it when beautiful things are easy.
I love good quality handspun yarn, which is generously supplied to me by my friend Sandie at Wild Rivers Wool (http://wildriverswool.com/), who also sells my finished work in handspun and commercial fibers on the Oregon coast. When I go to the local yarn shops, I’m always drawn to Noro, especially Kureyon Lite and Silk Garden Lite; I adore almost anything silk, rayon, or linen (expensive tastes!). I’m definitely a natural fibers snob; poo-poo to weird, scratchy acrylic yarn. I discovered that I hate mohair, after my mom sent me a huge box of it… whoops! So I don’t do much work in mohair if I can avoid it.”
Thank you Jessica, for making Portland babies just a little bit cuter
