NorthKnits (Jewell Washington)

Jewell Washington learned to knit in college and launched northknits in 2014. She pursues simple living through her passion for DIY, pattern design, stacking her yarn shelf, and providing business and entrepreneurial advice to fellow crafters. She is the founder of Our Maker Life, an international maker movement and has connected more than 120,000 fellow fiber creatives in the knit, crochet, and yarn industry. An avid plant lover and pet mom to kitten Dewey, she resides in Chicago, Illinois.