The Staff Room
Meet the people that make Knitty happen...
Amy Singer
Amy is the editor of Knitty. She's also the publisher and founder of the magazine. In 2002, it came to her in a dream while sitting on her living room couch that she should start an online knitting magazine to feature the knitting talent she'd been seeing on blogs all over the world in one tidy, professional-looking website. And here we are 18 years later. Cool.
She loves ukuleles, rabbits [she lives with a little Harlequin rescue bunny named Rabbi Schmooley ben Timothy], things with pushable buttons, and stuff that's shiny. She's allergic to wool and sensitive to all animal fibers, so she's the non-wool knitter in the Knitty crew. Amy taught on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for almost a decade and now is enjoying staying put, saving her travelling for vacation-type relaxation. Two carpal tunnel surgeries in 2016 have finally paid off...she's knitting again!
She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her partner, Mark, and his [their!] two cats, Brody and Tasha, plus Schmoo, of course.
Jillian Moreno is the author of the best-selling spinning book Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Building Exactly the Yarn You Want. She is the Editor of Knittyspin, and the other half of Amy’s Knitty brain. Because her brain never stops spinning out ideas, she is the Developmental Editor for PLY and PLY Books. She regularly writes about the construction of yarn for Modern Daily Knitting.
These days her teaching is online, but there’s a lot of it.
She usually reads three mysteries at once, is always experimenting with fiber, and starts many more projects than she ever finishes.
You can keep up with her fiber exploits at jillianmoreno.com
Kate is our Managing Technical Editor, as well as our Editorial Assistant. She is a mathematician, which comes in handy in all aspects of her knitting work. Kate is a highly regarded knitting teacher in Toronto, and offers her professional services through several Toronto-based shops and beyond.
Kate's first book "Beyond Knit & Purl" was praised as the 21st century "Knitting for Anarchists", and her second book "Knit Accessories: Essentials and Variations" was published in late 2012 to great acclaim. She's written several more very well-received books since she wrote this bio. In fact, her books and instructional DVDs fill an entire page at Amazon.
She lives in Toronto.
Ashley is one of our two super-skilled Garment Technical Editors. Even when she's not tech editing, she still manages to wax lyrical of her love of Excel and scientific calculators to all who might pause to listen.
Born in America, Ashley is now a naturalized Brit and lives in the Cotswolds with her husband, cat Squeak, and Tibetan Spaniel Tibby). By day she is a school Librarian-in-training; by night she tech edits, writes fiction, and spends too much time working through the weirdest games on Steam.
You can find her patterns on Ravelry, and on Twitter as @ashleyknits.
Originally a lab geek, Rachel now uses science (well, math, actually) to help knitwear designers put out clear, concise patterns for knitters of all types. She's the other half of our Garment Technical Editing team. When not tech editing, she spends as much time as possible dyeing fiber in science-inspired colorways, spinning, designing, and organizing yarn-centric events in London and the UK as one half of Yarn in the City. And oh yeah, occasionally still working in the lab playing biologist.
A former resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she now lives in London with her husband, two daughters, a Wee Ridiculous Dog and Feline Overlord, and teaches classes on a variety of knitting-and spinning-related topics.