Airs Wednesday, August 5th  2015

During this week’s radio show you will learn about:

• The New Dawn of Knitting and Taking Back a Time Old Tradition
• What Place Knitting Has Now in Fashion, Mindful Work and Health
• The Homemade vs Mass Produced Revolution
• Connection Through Group Practice
• Knitting as Mindful Meditation

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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. The rest is happy history.

She loves ukuleles, rabbits , scooters and shiny things. She’s allergic to wool and sensitive to all animal fibers, so she’s the non-wool knitter in the Knitty crew. Amy teaches knitting classes all over the place, focusing on learning neat new stuff without tearing your hair out.

She lives in Toronto and can often be found hanging out, having an iced latte and knitting, at The Purple Purl. She is frequently obsessed with technology and gadgets, and quite likes shoes that don’t hurt.

 

Jillian is the editor of Knittyspin, Knitty’s Ad Managerand Catalyst of the whole shebang. This means she is often the brains behind the exciting new ideas we implement at Knitty, like the blog-writing thing and the division of fall into two seasons that better describe what knitters really want. She’s also the reason there is a Knitty — her passion, brain and heart have helped Amy build the magazine and keep it on the grass-roots path we all feel is so important. If you ever meet her, thank her.

Jillian has been a knitter forever, and a spinner almost as long. Spinning is her current passion, and she spends part of almost every day at her wheel. She’s on the Editorial Board of PLY Magazine, and is taking her spinning knowledge on the road, teaching classes all over the US.

She likes vintage dresses, Tim Burton, British murder mysteries and listening to her kids sing in the bathtub.

You can learn more about Knitty.com here.

 

 Jade Harwood, 29, British

Co-founder and Creative Director of Wool and the Gang

(her other half is Aurelie Popper, 30 Swiss)

Jade and Aurelie met while studying Textiles at London Central Saint Martins, originally being taught the skill of knitting by their grannies around the age of 14.

By the age of 26 Jade was the co-founder and creative director of Wool and the Gang – a global fashion brand that is disrupting the traditional fashion model by championing a more sustainable way to produce fashion.

The idea was simple: Make knitting sexy and rock ‘n’ roll. They have a Gang of over 1,600 knitters around the world who help to design, produce and sell their collection. They have partnered with brands ranging from The British Fashion Council and Giles Deacon through to lifestyle brands Mini Cooper and Veuve Clicquot.

Since the business has developed they moved from their home in NY to East London in 2012 where they spend time between their London studio in Dalston to Peru to work with local artisans to develop their collection and New York for research trips.

A typical day is balancing studio work, yarn, pattern writing, sales and investor meetings while making some extra self-care time with reiki sessions to keep inner creativity alive!

You can learn more about Wool & The Gang here.