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Melanie Perkins
I have been working with fiber ever since learning to knit and crochet when I was five or six. I was taught by my grandmother, Caren (Larsen) Pedersen, who immigrated from Sweden as a young child around 1900. We knit Continental, holding the working yarn in the left hand. Since then, I have broadened my fiber arts skills to include spinning, weaving, preparing raw wool for spinning, and just about anything else fiber-related you can think of. After retiring from teaching in 2017, I opened Crockett Fiber Arts Studio, where I teach all things fiber arts. My focus is on promoting and sustaining the fiber arts in and inclusive and welcoming way. I am currently a member of Spindles and Flyers Spinning Guild, and am very active in the local fiber arts community.