My name is Melissa and I am a SAHM to my son, Zackary (5 years old) and daughters, Katarina (2 years)and Addyson who was born August 29th of this year. I have been happily married to my husband, Ben for 6 years. We live in the Silicon Valley in Northern California.

I started knitting in order to make some affordable wool items for my daughter, which then turned into a hobby I really enjoy. I decided to start knitting for others because there is only so many I can do for my little one before she has way too many. Plus, it allows me to offer pretty wool to mama's that might not be able to afford it otherwise.

DaKine? We lived in Maui when we were first married and our son was actually born there. They have a local slang that becomes pretty important to understand if you are going to live and work on the island. DaKine is a Hawaiian slang word for whatchamacallit, thingybob, pretty much anything that you don't have a word for, becomes "oh you know, da kine book, street, relative, store..." etc. So Da Kine Knits was born, because sometimes we don't have words to express what we mean. :D