Amy Singer

Amy R Singer is the editor of the online knitting magazine Knitty which has had more than 103 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, and is frequently seen walking about shamelessly in public with her ukulele.

In this class, you’ll learn Amy’s super-easy toe-up sock recipe which she designed specifically to work with the characteristics of non-wool sock yarns.  As a bonus, it works well with woolly sock yarns too!  It features an easy gusset, and a heel flap built with Amy’s tweaked Japanese short-row technique, all 100% math-free.  The easily memorized pattern gives you lots of room to improvise, should you want to add texture, colorwork or lace to the foot and/or leg.  We’ll also talk a little about the different non-wool sock yarns and get to feel how each of these works up into sock fabric.

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.