Cocoknits

About Julie Weisenberger

While studying German in Salzburg, Austria, I learned to knit at a shop close to the Abbey where scenes from "The Sound of Music" were filmed. I have always suspected the women in the knitting shop moonlighted as extras in the movie; they resembled each other in so many ways. I enjoy saying I was taught by knitting nuns… even if they weren't, really.

By the time I returned to the United States, I was obsessed with knitting and design and soon found myself managing a small cottage industry. I had knitters in Ireland using English yarn and my original creations were being sold at Nordstrom, Henri Bendel, Mark Shale, and a number of small boutiques across the country. My main focus, however, was on teaching knitting and designing for knitters via knitting magazines and yarn company publications.

I took an 8-year hiatus to care for my children but in 2004, I began teaching classes at Article Pract, a yarn shop in Oakland, California.  I couldn't teach and not design, so by 2006 I was designing again and in 2007 launched cocoknits.com to sell my patterns.  Having my own website allows me to design whatever inspires me, from sweaters and felted projects to wire bracelets and recycled cotton bath mats. 

My aim is to reach creative knitters who want a finished product that says something unique about their personality. Each pattern is meant not as a rigid template but as a guide, a jumping-off point from which you can determine your own style through choice of texture, color, shape, and embellishments. I hope that you will find cocoknits an inspiration as well as a resource.

Enjoy!

Shop the entire line!