Alison Jeppson Hyde grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, the fourth of six children and the mother of four now in their 20's.

She grew up next to a ten-mile park that was a protected watershed flowing down to the Potomac River, with trails built by the Appalachian Trail Association in the 1930's.

Her childhood was full of exploring the woods, trying not to fall in while stepping across stones to get to the other side of the creek, the occasional Pileated woodpecker sighting (and hearing!), and, just once, running from a snake that had been under that pile of leaves that was more scared of her than she of it and was making a run for it to the water.

She is the author of "Wrapped in Comfort: Knitted Lace Shawls," a book of patterns and their stories, and of the website spindyeknit.com. She updates it daily.

She lives in northern California with her husband of 31 years, and they recently celebrated the birth of their first grandchild, a boy.

Blog Posts by Alison Hyde:
Through the Arms of a Child
Merry go 'round
Got Milk?
Baggage Claim
The Eyes Have It