Astraknots creator/owner: Genevieve a.k.a. Wildvine
Genevieve is a native to Colorado and has been a crafter all her life. She learned to crochet at a young age while watching Broncos games with her mom. Then she picked up cross stitch from her best friend's mom. By age 10 she was cross stitching birth announcements for her cousins, latch hooking pillows, needlepointing gingerbread house tissue box covers and other holiday craft kits - whatever she could get her hands on.
In 2005, Simplicity Says a.k.a. Becca, her best friend, came home from New York and said she had seen a girl knitting on the train and that they had to learn the craft. Eagerly the two friends began their adventure in knitting, teaching themselves with help from books and each other.
As the addiction to knitting began to form, Genevieve moved to Lakewood, CO and found her first LYS, The Recycled Lamb, which had recently been purchased by Cheryl. Genevieve entered a hat in the annual March Mad Hatters Contest, and it got such a great response that Cheryl asked Genevieve if she would like to start teaching classes at the shop. She taught at the Lamb for over nine years.
Genevieve also offers private lessons to students seeking more help, as well as creating high definition knitting help videos as extra support. She was inspired by her close friends who are constantly asking her for custom knitted creations, as well as strangers who are impressed with her knitted wears to create a website of her own where she could link the larger world to her fun and functional knitting world.
In 2012, she formerly started Astraknots LLC and built the first version of Astraknots.com from scratch. By day Genevieve is a Software Engineering Manager, so she knows knitting patterns are just like code. She loves teaching knitting and does video classes to reach an even broader audience of knitters and soon-to-be knitters, both locally and abroad.
In 2005, Simplicity Says a.k.a. Becca, her best friend, came home from New York and said she had seen a girl knitting on the train and that they had to learn the craft. Eagerly the two friends began their adventure in knitting, teaching themselves with help from books and each other.
As the addiction to knitting began to form, Genevieve moved to Lakewood, CO and found her first LYS, The Recycled Lamb, which had recently been purchased by Cheryl. Genevieve entered a hat in the annual March Mad Hatters Contest, and it got such a great response that Cheryl asked Genevieve if she would like to start teaching classes at the shop. She taught at the Lamb for over nine years.
Genevieve also offers private lessons to students seeking more help, as well as creating high definition knitting help videos as extra support. She was inspired by her close friends who are constantly asking her for custom knitted creations, as well as strangers who are impressed with her knitted wears to create a website of her own where she could link the larger world to her fun and functional knitting world.
In 2012, she formerly started Astraknots LLC and built the first version of Astraknots.com from scratch. By day Genevieve is a Software Engineering Manager, so she knows knitting patterns are just like code. She loves teaching knitting and does video classes to reach an even broader audience of knitters and soon-to-be knitters, both locally and abroad.