The Spinning Hand | Our Story, Values, and Team Members

• We support small businesses, women owned, and Black owned businesses whenever possible. We love supporting businesses whose products are made in America, and also love including handmade items in our subscription boxes.
• Your knitting time is precious, and should be joyful. You deserve clear and easy-to-follow pattern instructions. Our designs are professionally tech edited and tested by other knitters before we share them with the world.
• You deserve to work with “the good yarn.” You deserve to be treated to the best materials, and we test everything that’s included in our shop and in our boxes.

Kari Capone, Founder

Kari is a proud mama of her son Andrew, an FIT graduate; a lifelong cross-stitcher, crocheter, and crafter; and longtime resident of South Orange and Maplewood, NJ. She learned to knit in 2001, began designing sweaters in 2003, and has taught hundreds of children and adults to knit.

Her favorite pastimes include drinking coffee at The Able Baker and singing karaoke at Libretti's. She married her awesome husband in 2023 and opened The Spinning Hand's first brick-and-mortar location in 2025.

 

Judith Vega, Manager

Judith Vega, aka Judy, is a wife and mommy of two beautiful children. Born and raised in NYC, she currently lives in Maplewood, NJ. 

Judy is a long time lover of all crafts but yarn crafts stole her heart. She loves to crochet and recently is learning to knit!