Jenn has moved around the US a lot, living in 4 different States in the last 5 years, but has currently settled in Kentucky. While she was introduced to knitting as a child, she rediscovered the craft while in graduate school in Michigan, which she considers to be her fiber home. She has been in love with knitting ever since and is never without a project. Jenn designs under the name Synaptic Stitches which comes from a combination of her background in neuroscience and her love of creating designs that keep your brain engaged and always teach you something new. She loves creating brioche designs and coming up with new ways to combine stitches, colors, and techniques. She is an advocate of fearless knitting and believes that any knitter can knit any pattern with a bit of patience and the right resources. She loves supporting knitters in taking on new challenges and learning new skills. Jenn finds inspiration in a variety of sources, including classic cable motifs and the puzzle of creating brioche versions, and in the branching, organic patterns of plants that are mirrored so well in the structure of brioche knitting. When not knitting, she loves baking, hiking, swing dancing, and listening to audiobooks. She is a major chocoholic and can usually be found with a mug of drinking chocolate while working on her designs.