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Member Spotlight: Meet Adrienne!

8/23/2018

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Adrienne in her "It's a Party" Chromatic Sweater https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chromatic-sweater
Prolific knitter, sometimes designer, and co-founder of Butterfly Boxes Adrienne Enriquez shares some of her knitting favorites with us for the second installment of Member Spotlight!

Why do you knit?

I'm among those who find knitting relaxing. It's also how I justify binge-watching Netflix or listening to hours and hours of podcasts ... I'm being productive while I do it!

What got you started knitting?
A family friend taught me how to knit when I was 5 years old, and I worked on that olive drab, bulky, misshapen scarf for a few years. When I was 12, I asked my grandma to "really teach me" how to knit. She was a believer in both making the thing you wanted and in ripping out all mistakes. So my first "real" project was a forest green, heavily textured - cables, bobbles, and more! - sweater that was perfectly executed under her eagle eye. After that, I was a fairly intermittent knitter until just after college. In the past 20 years, it's become a regular part of my daily life.

Favorite place to knit:
On my couch - best place to binge-watch Netflix!

What’s currently on your needles?
So many things! I'm not a monogamous knitter. Not even close. Right now, the top three in rotation are a Wool & Honey sweater for me, a narwhal stuffie for a friend's baby (which will likely be accompanied by a harbor seal stuffie for his older sister), and an Apex scarf.
What’s your biggest knitting victory?
I've designed a couple colorwork baby blankets that I really loved. But my biggest victory might actually have been a rather simple project that just took forever. And bored me to tears. But I finished it.

I made my niece a queen-sized striped "sky" blanket (pictured above). Over the course of her 16th year, I took a photo of the sky everyday around noon and then knit those colors into a blanket for her. Biggest surprise? I was astounded that I had to reorder blue yarn twice. And I'm STILL making my way through the leftover gray yarn (using it for the narwhal, in fact!). Portland's skies aren't gray as often as we like to think!


Oh! I'm also pretty proud of an ocean-themed baby activity book I made for a friend a couple years ago. Most of it was pattern-based, but I designed a couple of pages to go with it because my friend loves crabs and clearly needed a crab page, right?

Despite my crummy framing (holding the phone and turning the pages proved more difficult than it should have), I'm inclined to share the finished project. So much fun to make! #babybook #activitybook #babyknits #crab #starfish #turtle #seaworms #goby #octopus #whale #shark #coral #fish #ravelry

A post shared by Adrienne Enriquez (@adriennepdx) on May 22, 2016 at 10:34pm PDT

What do you want to learn more about in knitting?
It's probably about time I do something in brioche, right?

What other hobbies do you have?
I bought myself a spinning wheel about 6 months ago, and I've loved every time I've used it. Same for the rigid heddle loom I bought a couple years ago. I've recently re-picked up counted cross stitch for when I need a change of pace. Outside of crafting, I'm a reader.

Colorwork or cables?
Colorwork.

Describe your ultimate knitting project:
I like projects that teach me something new.

Follow Adrienne:
adriennepdx on Ravelry and Instagram
Want to share your love of knitting with the guild? Email us at puddletownknitters@gmail.com with subject line Member Spotlight. 
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