Vogue Knitting Knitterviews

Shira Blumenthal talks Lion Brand, #HatNotHate, and celebrity knit nights.

Shira Blumenthal is the Brand Ambassador for Lion Brand Yarns, and a fifth generation member of the brand-founding family. Shira travels the country to spread her anti-bu

Taiu Landra talks Koigu, breed-specific yarns, and remembering your chemistry.

Taiu Landra, along with mother Maie and daughter Kersti, is the owner and creative voice of Koigu Wool Designs. For decades, Koigu has supplied top-quality handpainted me

Maggie Jackson talks holes, The Troubles, and murder mysteries.

Norther Ireland-born Maggie Jackson has been in the knitting business for over forty years with MaggiKnits, specializing in designer knitting kits and mainly natural yarn

Debbie Bliss talks knitting to fit, seed stitch, and Prince Charles.

Debbie Bliss has spent over 30 years building an international yarn and design brand. She is recognised for her classic and contemporary designs and use of bold and beaut

Erika Knight talks New Romantic, knitting on trains, and nettles.

Erika Knight is a renowned knitwear designer and respected consultant to the yarn and fashion industry. Erika has a unique interpretation of craft: her mission is to simp

Laura Zander talks Jimmy Beans Wool, software engineering, and smart watches.

Laura Zander is the co-owner of leading online yarn and fabric retailer Jimmy Beans Wool. Laura and her husband Doug quit their dot-com jobs in San Francisco and founded

Sandy Black talks fashion, technology, and Cats the Musical.

Sandy Black is a professor of fashion and textile design and technology at the London College of Fashion. She curated the touring exhibition The New Knitting and is the a

Nicky Epstein talks embellishment, books, and how The Rockettes missed out.

Nicky Epstein is a prolific designer who goes from high fashion to whimsical fun with great ease and an innovative thinker that embellishes traditional knitting technique

Margaret Stove talks lace shawls, New Zealand, and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Margaret Stove is a leading expert of hand knitted superfine lace. Examples of her work are found in many galleries and private collections throughout the world. A passio

Julie Weisenberger talks tools, tailoring, and how to stay motivated through chocolate.

Julie Weisenberger is an internationally renowned knitwear designer and teacher known for her elegant, modern fashion sense and her unique commonsense method to knitting

Arne & Carlos talk Space Invaders, innovation, and life in a Norwegian railway station.

Scandinavians Arne Nerjordet and Carlos Zachrison are highly regarded designers, textile artists, and authors. They are best known for their original, colorful, and visua

Alice Starmore talks the Hebrides, multi-tasking yarn and the fantastical.

Alice Starmore is a Scottish artist, designer and internationally renowned author. She was born on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis into a family of Gaelic-speaking crofter-fi

Brandi Harper talks Brooklyn, minimalism, and her signature crochet finishing.

Brandi is a self-taught knitwear designer specializing in natural handmade goods for all genders. She is all about intricate construction, shaping techniques, and creatin

Mary Jane Mucklestone talks Fair Isle, fashion and the allure of the Shetland Islands.

Mary Jane Mucklestone is a hand-knitting designer known for inventive colorwork design. She has a passion for folk knitting and has traveled the world to study traditiona

Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton talks adventure, Sweden, and egotistical fibers.

Hamilton's artistic career began when she started selling her creations in her mid-teens. A true multi-crafter, she is proficient at embroidery, macramé and crochet but f

Cecelia Campochiaro talks science, Silicon Valley, sequence knitting and marls.

Cecelia Campochiaro started knitting at age twelve as a hobby. She has a doctorate in physical chemistry and has lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than twenty y

Andrea Mowry talks finding your fade, color confidence and knitting joy

Andrea Mowry focuses on designing knits to fit the modern wardrobe that are fun to knit and easy to wear, with clear directions for every level of knitter. She believes i

Norah Gaughan talks creativity, collaboration, and learning to slow down.

Norah Gaughan has served as design director for Berroco Yarns, Reynolds Yarns, and Adrienne Vittadini Yarns, and has published patterns in leading knitting and textile ma

Joji Locatelli talks Argentina, self-publishing and a bonus benefit of taking up knitting.

Joji has been actively knitting for 14 years (and counting), self-published her first design in 2008, and continues to do so on Ravelry. She has also written five Interpr

Nancy Marchant talks everything brioche, from 1840 to today.

Nancy Marchant is the Queen of Brioche. For more than 30 years, Nancy has studied the nuances of this European stitch, developing new and exciting stitches and techniques