June Garen is a retired nurse who spent much of her career in the operating room—where precision and patience were essential, skills that come in handy with knitting needles too. She learned to knit at her grandmother’s side, a Dutch woman who knew that knitting wasn’t just a pastime, but a survival skill during long, cold winters.

Since then, June has happily knitted her way through life and shared the craft wherever she could—at local libraries, with community knitting groups, and even at the county jail. She loves that knitting invites experimentation with colors and textures and rewards you with the ultimate prize: wearable art. At Kimball Jenkins, she’s excited to bring her “Humble Knitting” class to anyone who wants to make something beautiful, useful, and maybe even a little bit quirky—one stitch at a time.