My Inspiration Hunter Hammersen

Hunter’s patterns are creative, decorative, intriguing, and always entertaining to knit

HUNTER HAMMERSEN is perhaps best known for her beautiful sock patterns, but she also loves to design shawls and other accessories. She writes and publishes her own knitting books through her wonderfully named Pantsville Press website.

Who taught you to knit?

“I confess my early forays into knitting were rather solitary. I didn’t know anyone who knitted, and wasn’t at all aware of the larger knitting community (this was back in the very early 2000s). I bought a book, some horrible yarn and completely inappropriate needles, and jumped in. It didn’t go particularly well, and I swore off knitting twice before I figured out what I was doing. But somehow I kept coming back, and eventually it stuck!”

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