Minneapolis April 24 - 28
Amy was the “List Mom” of the original Knit List for over four years before she started KnitU. She’s very proud that she’s been Meg Swansen’s assistant at her Knitting Camp for 20 years. Teaching knitting and helping people learn about the wide range of knitting possibilities is something Amy is passionate about, and she loves solving those stubborn knitting problems!
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (better known as the Yarn Harlot) is a prolific knitter, writer and blogger known for her humorous but always insightful anecdotes and stories about knitting triumphs and tragedies.
By day, Carson is a physical therapist who runs an ergonomics program for a San Francisco Bay Area medical center. Every other moment, he’s knitting, spinning designing, teaching, or otherwise up to some fiber fun with a watchful eye toward ergonomics. His passion and experience in fiber arts combine with his expertise in physical therapy and ergonomics to create a unique skill set that he eagerly shares with the fiber community to keep us all creating healthfully ever after.
TEACHERS
Carson Demers
Amy Detjen
The Yarn Harlot
Lucy Neatby
Mary Scott Huff
Franklin Habit
Designer, teacher, author, and illustrator Franklin Habit is the author of It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008–now in its third printing) and the proprietor of The Panopticon (the-panopticon.blogspot.com), one of the most popular knitting blogs on the Internet. Franklin’s varied experience in the fiber world includes contri butions to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Cast On: A Podcast for Knitters, Twist Collective; and regular columns for both Knitty.com and Lion Brand Yarns.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Mary Scott Huff is delighted to be making her second appearance at Yarnover! Mary is the author of The New Stranded Color- work, and Teach Yourself Visually Color Knitting. In addition to teaching allover the USA, Mary designs knitting patterns for yarn companies, books, magazines, and for independent publication.
Lucy Neatby is a passionate knitter and designer, fascinated by colour and technique. Her knitting patterns, books and technique tutorial videos are used and loved by knitters around the world. She also shares her expertise in the art of hand-knitting by giving live workshops around N. America.
Takako Ueki
Andrea Wong
Amy Singer
Amy R Singer is the editor of the online knitting magazine Knitty.com which has had more than 139 million site visits since its launch in 2002 eleven years ago. Most people who learn she’s a knitter, knitting teacher and knitting magazine editor who is allergic to wool think it’s hysterical. Ha. Never mind. She’s perfectly happy knitting with cotton and silk and lots of other stuff.
Andrea grew up in South America and knits Portuguese Style since she was seven years old. Taught by her mother, this was the only style she knew until she came to the USA in 1991. Since then she has been knitting avidly, designing and teach- ing. For the last nine years she has taught in the US and abroad how to knit with the yarn tensioned around a knitting pin on their shoulder or around their neck among other classes. Andrea Wong
Ever since I begun weaving, I have been in love with the textiles from Okinawa. When I founded this business in 1999, I needed a name, which is easy to remember & pronounce.Our name, "habu" comes from a name of a snake, which is unique to Okinawa. In original characters, "ha" means "wave." "bu" means "fabric” It is named so because when it moves, it moves like a fabric.
