Jamie Cook-Jaques
When not knitting, Jamie is learning to master her sewing machine, fretting over paint colors for her first home or perusing eBay for good deals on yarn. Most of her design ideas are sketched out on pink post-it notes while at work as a web developer in the Pacific Northwest.

Jamie shares everything but the yarn room with her husband, Bob, and two cats, The Midget and Saity Bean.

Kat Coyle
Kat lives in sunny Los Angeles and happily knits cotton skirts and lacy mohair shawls.

Rebecca Hatcher
Rebecca lives near Boston, MA, with a rabbit who ignores wool, cotton and all other natural fibers, preferring to nibble exclusively on acrylics. Rebecca has become a yarn snob in self-defense. She learned to knit when she was in elementary school from her favorite grandmother. When grandma took a nap halfway through the lesson, Rebecca figured out the rest on her own -- much to the amusement of every other knitter who's ever watched her knit.

When not knitting, Rebecca runs marathons and eats cookies. To support her yarn, sneaker and cookie habits, she works at a non-profit center that helps libraries, archives, museums and historical societies care for their paper-based materials.

Erica Hohmann
Erica learned to knit about three years ago while attending Mount Holyoke College. She currently lives in a small town in central Massachusetts with her boyfriend and their pet fiddler crab. When she's not knitting, she can be found working as an EMT or feeding the flock of wild birds that has taken up residence in their backyard.

Stefanie Japel
Stefanie's mother is an expert seamstress, and taught her to use the sewing machine as soon as she showed an interest. She immediately began making dog toys and outfitting dolls, and was making her own clothes before she got to high school. Stefanie learned the basics of knitting from her Grandma Reed by age 8, but didn't really get started until her early 20s. She designs most of what she knits.

Marie-Christine Mahe
Marie-Christine's grandmother tried to teach her to knit at an early age "to shut her up". This didn't work very well on either count, but Marie-Christine took it up again later with enthusiasm after being exposed to a wild improvised sweater.

She started her knitting designer career with a bang, with the Vegan Fox in Knitty magazine's inaugural issue. She has followed it with an assortment of designs in the same vein.

Jillian Moreno
Jillian Moreno's stash has its own room in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sarah Mundy
Sarah makes a lot of different things from her headquarters in Victoria, BC, Canada. If you change the punctuation in knitting patterns, they look a lot like the software code she writes for a living. On other days she grows food, provides sex education material to curious parties, and enthuses about pet toads, local rock stars and -- most everything. The productive parts are catalogued at her website.

Leslie Petrovski
Leslie Petrovski is a full-time freelance writer who has been knitting since she was seven years old. Among other things, she writes for Vogue Knitting, teaches creative project classes at the Recycled Lamb in Lakewood, CO, and keeps up a blog called Nake-id Knits.

When she's not writing or knitting or writing about knitting, she adores squeezing her two cats and husband, Mitch.

Kristi Porter
Kristi Porter enjoys knitting, but finds the greatest satisfaction in design work; her simple designs often focus on bright colors and fun yarns to make a splash. She enjoys re-thinking and re-working conventional or already-made garments to create things that are new and fresh. She is advertising manager for Knitty magazine and a frequent contributor.

She makes a home with her husband, Leo, and two daughters, Zoe and Eleanor, in San Diego, California.

Megan Reardon
Megan Reardon made an attempt at learning to knit in college which involved ridiculously tight stitches and balls of yarn being thrown out of the window. She took a few years to calm down and, once she got the hang of purling, hasn't stopped since.

She sells knitting needle cases at The Organized Knitter.

Stephannie Roy
Just the other day, Stephannie Roy finished her Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto [seriously]. She wanted to knit a thesis, but her committee preferred she take the conventional approach. She plans to pursue a career in academia, but fantasizes about running away to a villa filled with DVDs and yarn. 

Stephannie lives in Toronto with her husband, Craig, and their fabulous children, Emma and Alexander, who were trained as babies not to touch Mommy's knitting.

Catherine Shu
Catherine Shu has been a huge Balanchine fan since she stumbled upon the ballerina Suzanne Farrell's autobiography in her dorm's giveaway pile. When not indulging her raging balletomania, Catherine is a permanent intern [most recently at The Village Voice], freelance writer, and itinerant beader. Catherine's mother taught her how to knit when she was five years old and since then she has amassed a large stash of yarn that she stores in the form of a tangled lump. She lives in New York City.

Karen Stockton
Karen lives in beautiful Kyoto, Japan, with her husband and cats, where she teaches high school English, and frets over her tatami-mat flooring.

The sweet smell of reeds;
Hear the tatami mat shred
Cat running in house

Amy Swenson
Amy Swenson lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her cats Cleo and Maddy.

Her overwhelming addiction to yarn is mostly paid for by her work as a website developer and functional analyst. Since 2003, Amy has printed her own line of original patterns, IndiKnits, that can be found in yarn shops across North America. She is also an active contributor to Knitty.com.

Ivete Tecedor
Ivete lives in the suburbs of New York City with her dog and two roommates. She's been knitting since she was 7 and keeps a knitting journal online. She dreams of the day when she can afford to knit all cashmere, all the time.

Theresa Vinson Stenersen
Learning to knit was an integral part of the successful transformation of Theresa's life a few years ago. Relocating to Norway from North Carolina was another. Climate shock hit hard and she soon got busy knitting thick woolen socks to keep her toes at the temperature to which they were accustomed. Her own pair of Fuzzy Feet have been thoroughly tested in a house with remarkably cold floors and have passed with flying colors.

Knitting has also been essential in connecting Theresa to some wonderful people around the world through her weblog, Bagatell. One such person has been the editor, Amy, who has opened up a world of opportunities and to whom she is entirely grateful.

Melissa Walters
Melissa Walters has been knitting for more than 20 years. She lives in Maine with her husband, two children and many pets. When she is not knitting and with her family, she works as a Physician Assistant at a busy health center.

Her first designs included stirrup covers for her GYN exam table at work and a hammock for her daughter's pet rats.

Jenna Wilson
Jenna lives and knits in Toronto. By day, she's a mild-mannered intellectual property lawyer, and by night she dabbles in knitwear design. Jenna's yarn stash--the result of years of careful hoarding--spans two cities and is the envy of her knitting friends, but a major inconvenience to her family.

Natalie Wilson
After an early knitting attempt that produced a pink garter-stitch cat, Natalie Wilson picked up the needles for good in the early 1990s. Designing knitwear for cash and fame fulfills Natalie's career goal, first expressed in middle school, of becoming a fashion designer.

These days, from her Detroit-area base, Natalie designs for magazines, yarn companies, and her own Iknitiative line of patterns. Making good on her other middle-school career goal, she has been a consulting environmental scientist for over 15 years. Natalie's in-home fan club consists of a loving husband and two wonderful young children.

Kate Watson
Kate tries to hide from her growing reputation as a numbers geek while attempting to be just grown-up enough to not seriously damage her children. In the winter, she's torn between loving her hometown of Toronto and despairing over her ancestors' decision that Canada is The Place To Be. She sincerely hates writing her own bios but quite enjoys speaking in third person.

Kathy Wortel
Kathy Wortel lives in Toronto with her husband, Rudy, daughter, Emma, and their yorkshire terrier, Suki.