Jenny Bannock
Posted By Craft Corps on April 25, 2009
Jenny Bannock
Name: Jenny Bannock
Age: 34
Location: Connecticut
Profession: Adult Education Secretary, Knitting & Spinning teacher, & Yarn Small Business Owner
Craft(s) of choice: Spinning, knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery
Blog: http://divinebird.com/wordpress
When I was 12, my mom sat me down at her sewing machine and declared that I was NOT going to grow up to be someone who couldn’t hem a pair of pants or fix a button. Of course, at the time I resisted, but she persevered. I made whole outfits from patterns and learned how to manipulate fabric to create the shapes I wanted. I still hated it until I moved out years later and discovered that I was the ONLY person I knew who could sew. Suddenly, it wasn’t such a bad thing anymore.
I decided then that I was going to be good at textiles, the one thing I could claim I was honestly better at than anyone I knew. This was back in the days before Ravelry and Crafster, of course! I wanted to learn every major textile art–knitting, weaving, embroidery, etc.–to the point where I could design and make a project. Later, that goal changed when I found it much more rewarding to be able to teach those skills, and now the goal is to learn until I can teach.
My quest to learn has brought me to spinning, which wasn’t part of my original goal because at the time it wasn’t even on my personal radar. I feel as though I’ve found the root of my love of textiles by, well, finding the root of textiles themselves. Now I’m a textile evangelist and certified yarn geek, and I like it that way.
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