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Amy R Singer

Amy R Singer is the editor of the online knitting magazine Knitty.com which has had more than 65 million site visits since its launch in 2002. Most people who learn she’s a knitter and knitting magazine editor who is allergic to wool think it’s hysterical. Ha. She’s perfectly happy knitting with cotton and silk, and wrote a book on the subject (No Sheep for You; Interweave Press, 2007). Amy lives in Toronto with her husband and their two rabbits, Boeing and Squeeze.

The Monkey sock pattern, published in Knitty magazine, has been on needles all over the world, but what makes it so irresistible to knitters?  In this class, Knitty editor Amy Singer will share some of Knitty’s sock secrets with you. We’ll talk about what makes a sock pattern stand out among the dozens of socks submitted to Knitty every year, what makes a good sock pattern, pattern-writing techniques that make a difference, what makes a sock go viral, the five things you can do to ensure you have the best possible chance of being published, and the five things you can do that will blow it for you.

Handknit socks are a pleasure to make and wear if wool is in your fiber vocabulary. But what if you or the future sock wearer is allergic or sensitive to wool, or simply chooses not to wear it? Then what? Give up on handknits? Heavens, no!Handknit socks are a pleasure you need not deny yourself. This class will teach you what you need to know about the yarns, fibers and knitting techniques that make the most of non-wool yarns, whether they were meant to be sock yarns or not. We’ll also investigate a variety of non-wool sock yarns, hands on, to see what they’re like and what they do best.Students will leave with a copy of Amy’s favorite sock recipe, which combines the best techniques she’s found for non-woolly socks, and gives you room to improvise a little, too.