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Kate Atherley

Kate Atherley

KATE ATHERLEY is an internationally-known and best-selling knitting author, teacher, and editor. She has written ten books about various aspects of knitting, including a series of four about customizing projects for perfect fit and style, her latest is Math for Knitters, which aims to help knitters be more confident working from and with patterns, unlocking the secrets of gauge, fit and alterations. The combination of her university degree in mathematics, professional experience in software development and usability, and training in garment and fashion design give her a unique perspective. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their rescue dog Winnie.

www.kateatherley.com

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Saturday Evening Keynote:

The Fabric of Progress: Sock Knitting and Human Innovation

Michele Lee Bernstein

Michele Lee Bernstein, PDXKnitterati, designs and teaches from her home base in Portland, Oregon. She loves designing accessories, especially if they use one or two skeins of very special yarn. She’s fond of texture (brioche, lace, entrelac, elongated stitches, assigned pooling), and loves using interesting techniques to make small objects sing. Her patterns are available through Ravelry and Payhip.

Michele loves teaching knitters to be the boss of their knitting! She teaches at fiber festivals (Vogue Knitting Live, Red Alder Fiber Arts Festival, Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival), guild meetings, retreats, and local yarn shops. Her book, Brioche Knit Love: 21 Skill Building Projects from Simple to Sublime combines her love for teaching and designing, using simple accessories to take knitters from the easiest one color brioche through more complex brioche techniques.

Michele blogs about knitting, food, and music at PDXKnitterati.com. You can also find her on Instagram, Facebook, Ravelry, YouTube, and Twitter; she’s PDXKnitterati on all platforms.

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Ana Campos

Ana Campos was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and now makes her home in the Witch City (Salem, Massachusetts). She is a founding member of Vogue Knitting's Diversity Advisory Council and is committed to increasing equity and access in the fiber world. Ana brings more than 20 years of knitting experience to her yarn shop, Circle of Stitches, and to her workshops, which she teaches across the U.S.. As a teacher, her focus is on the technical aspects of knitting, and she particularly enjoys teaching Portuguese knitting in honor of her Portuguese ancestors. Ana is fiercely committed to intersectionality and diversity, which she seeks to promote within her own business. She strives to empower her students to create pieces they love.

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Lily Chin

What hasn’t Lily done? She was named to the Crochet Hall of Fame in 2015, named a Master Knitter by Vogue Knitting, and has been involved in some aspect of the fashion industry since age 13. A NYC native, Lily has lived part-time in Los Angeles as well. She’s designed for magazines and yarn companies since 1982. She’s worked for designers from Ralph Lauren to Diane von Furstenberg, from Isaac Mizrahi to Vera Wang.
Lily was officially named fastest crocheter in the world in a 2002 international competition. She has authored books in knitting and crochet since 1999 and has been teaching since 1989.

Lily's workshops, lectures and seminars in hand and machine knitting and crochet are conducted worldwide. She’s had her own line of yarns and patterns from 2005-2008. She was on the cast of PBS’ Knit and Crochet Now tv show for seasons 13 and 14. Lily has made hundreds of appearances on television and in print media, from the Late
Show with David Letterman to CNN, from the NY Times to the Washington Post.

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Christin Curran

Christin Curran is a Seattle-based fiber artist, teacher, and designer. She learned to knit when she was five and crochet at ten. Five years ago, while researching Sami mittens, Nålbinidng became her hyper-focus deep-dive during lockdown—and ever since. Christin’s favorite activities include spreading her love of fiber arts (and the history and sociology surrounding them), spending time in nature with her family, and hitting her friends (with consent) playing roller derby on the Ship Wreckers.

 

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Kandi Dodril

Kandi Dodrill is a farm educator and owns a 5 acre fiber farm with her husband, Mark, in South King County. They have a motley crew of fiber growing animals filled with personality on their farm. Since she is a farm educator, she gets to share different skills that she has learned over the years from crafting to soap making, fiber arts, cooking, gardening, and embroidery. Kandi loves teaching people to enjoy the process of art and crafts. She has been a Girl Scout, Boy Scout, and 4-H leader.  Her current favorite craft is using fiber from her farm to make beautiful art.

 

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Kira Dulaney

Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes since 2002 and travels across the country. Her teaching focuses on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. Kira designs knitting and crochet patterns and kits that are interesting to make and easy to wear.

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Britt Garber

Britt Garber, widely known as KnotBadBritt, is a crochet designer, educator, and community advocate committed to making the craft accessible, joyful, and creatively empowering. She teaches at festivals, retreats, yarn shops, and online, offering classes that focus on strong foundations, stitch understanding, color exploration, and practical, confidence-building techniques. Her teaching style is warm, clear, and encouraging, creating a classroom environment where makers feel comfortable asking questions, trying new skills, and celebrating their progress.

Britt is also the founder of the Makers of Color Collective, a community initiative that uplifts and supports BIPOC and other marginalized groups in the fiber industry through visibility, shared resources, and connection. This commitment to representation and care is woven throughout her work.

Her design practice, centered on intentional construction, wearable shapes, and approachable techniques, informs her teaching and inspires makers to explore their creativity. Britt’s goal is simple: create learning spaces where every student feels seen, capable, and excited to grow.

http://www.knotbadbritt.com

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Sunday Spotlight Seminar:

Secrets of the Skein, co-presented with Kim McBrien Evans

Pamela Grossman

Pamela is passionate about the sanity-preserving magic that crochet projects provide and is happy to be teaching at Red Alder. Pamela is an educator, parent and occasional knitwear designer (woolywonder.com) who spends her days directing the Rosen Family Early Childhood School at the Hearing, Speech and Deaf Center in Seattle. You can also find her baking challah, promoting American Sign Language, marveling at the brilliance of young children, drawing flowers and dabbling in watercolors. Pamela lives in Redmond, Washington with her doting husband and two tiny dogs.

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Devin Helmen

Devin Helmen (They/Them) has been immersed in fiber since learning to spin at age 8. They spin, knit, and weave in beautiful Minnesota.

Devin enjoys writing and teaching about fiber arts and has a passion for spindles and everyday textiles. Their focus is on making useful textiles from natural materials in a way that is informed by history and celebrates the materials. Devin’s fiber ambition is to be surrounded by handspun textiles and they work towards furnishing a handspun household and building a handmade wardrobe.

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Romi Hill

Romi Hill lives on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern Nevada, where the high desert nights are cool and the air is clear and crisp. A lifelong crafter and knitter, she is inspired by the natural surroundings in her corner of the world, and her designs have an organic flow. She specializes in lace of all weights, and her patterns are known for their knitterly details.

Romi's lace book from Interweave Press, New Lace Knitting, features timeless patterns for garments and accessories. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and books, and knit by thousands of knitters. Check out her eBook collections and subscriptions on Ravelry where you can see her full pattern collection. Follow her on Instagram and YouTube at @RomiDesigns, and find her under “Romi” on Ravelry.

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Michael Kelson

Michael Kelson (https://spinpossible.com/) teaches spinning classes all over the country. His methodical, sample-based approach to spinning resonates with students of all levels. Michael is the coordinator for the annual Seattle-area Men’s Fall Knitting Retreat and the Seattle Men Who Knit meet-up. By day he is a software professional, but on weekends he’s usually out and about with his eSpinner in tow.

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Kate Larson

Kate Larson, editor of Farm & Fiber Knits and former editor of Spin Off, loves using fiber arts as a bridge between her passions for art and agriculture. She keeps a flock of Border Leicester sheep and teaches handspinning and knitting throughout the United States. Kate is the author of The Practical Spinner's Guide: Wool (Interweave, 2015) and several videos, including How to Spin Yarn to Knit (Interweave, 2016). Follow her woolly adventures at katelarsontextiles.com.

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Jamie Lomax

Jamie Lomax is the owner and designer behind Pacific Knit Co., an independent online shop and knitting pattern design studio focused on modular colorwork in Seattle, WA. Jamie loves colorwork knitting and considers it to be like "doodling with yarn," in that a fiber-y illustration is created, line by line, as you knit the pattern. Her background in design, standards, and technical writing has led to creating a system of patterns, where all motifs and all pattern shapes can be used interchangeably. After designing the first Doodle pattern in 2020, she's now taken the concept into over 25 themes and 11 base pattern shapes, and hopes to add even more as she continues to expand Doodles.​

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Kasteyl Lukes

Kasteyl Lukes (she/her) is the owner of Seattle Sky Dyeworks, Wool for the People mill & dyehouse, and helms the Salish Sea and Sky Fiber Arts Retreat. She is a dyer, knitter, spinner, and weaver, although she’ll try any craft twice. Kasteyl doesn't have a yarn problem, she has yarn solutions.

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Kim McBrien Evans

Curiosity, exploration and an ever expanding plan for world domination are central to the work of knitwear designer and indie hand dyer, Kim McBrien Evans. Known for designs that turn abstract ideas into colour-filled hand knit reality while simultaneously fitting and honouring every body, Kim aims to revolutionize sweater fit, sizing, and how diverse bodies are represented in the yarn world through research, education, and collaborations with makers worldwide. Her representative body measurement chart for designers—inclusive of 28 - 76” chest sizes—earned her a Trailblazer award from Interweave in 2023.

Kim believes all bodies are good bodies and deserve clothing that fits. She also believes that clothing should be dynamic and exciting to make and to wear. In service of this, Kim sketches each design on a wide range of body shapes and sizes to ensure her styles will respect your body as it is right now.

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Sunday Spotlight Seminar:

Secrets of the Skein, co-presented with Britt Garber

John Mullarkey

John Mullarkey is passionate about teaching tablet weaving and exploring new ways to make the art form more contemporary. Tablet weaving is a primitive weaving style that creates simple weave structures, but offers great variation in possible patterns. John loves to push tablet weaving outside the normal and historical limits to create his own interpretation of traditional patterns. He is a nationally recognized teacher and is valued for the patience, clarity and organization he brings to his classes. After beginning to teach in 2009, John left a part-time software development career to focus on weaving and teach full time.

John has won many awards, is a frequent contributor to national weaving publications and has authored books and videos about the craft. His creations have appeared in international fashion shows and been displayed at museums. The Schacht Zoom Loom is based on John's design.

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Xandy Peters

Xandy Peters is a knitting designer and teacher, best known as the innovator of the stacked stitch technique and for the Fox Paws pattern. Starting out as a footwear and product designer, Xandy turned to knitting as a way to explore textiles and surfaces without using factory production and has since made a career out of publishing new patterns and teaching workshops. He has been published in magazines such as Vogue Knitting, Twist Collective, Knitscene, Knitty, and Pom Pom Quarterly, has a Bluprint class teaching the stacked stitch technique and continues to self publish patterns monthly. Xandy also blogs about design, crafting, and baking on soimakestuff.com and posts craft videos on YouTube.

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Alasdair Post-Quinn

Alasdair Post-Quinn is the author of the critically acclaimed books Extreme Double-Knitting and Double or Nothing and a smattering of other patterns, mostly also double-knitted. He has been working to push the boundaries of double-knitting since 2003.

Alasdair lives in Cambridge, MA and works in computer repair when he's not traveling around North America to teach. He has a burgeoning business in self-published knitting books, patterns, online video tutorials and in-person workshops for all levels of double-knitting experience.

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Charan Sachar

Charan Sachar is an artist whose work reflects his passion for the fiber arts, like knitting, spinning, weaving, quilting and he uses it as an inspiration for his clay work. In all the fields that he works in, he loves to accept challenges and approach the making with a “what if...” attitude. Charan specializes in creating art yarns with textures, using traditional spinning techniques and pushing them an extra step to create unique yarns. As a teacher, he shares his preferences and his learnings along his journey, but also encourages his students to try techniques/materials by themselves and then decide for themselves. https://creativewithclay.com

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Kitty Savel

Kitty Savel is a fiber artist who lives in and practices her art in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. Her art includes paper and fabric collage, embroidery, slow stitching, wood and found materials assemblage, knit and crochet, screen and block printing on paper and fabric.

Kitty has taught and exhibited throughout the Mid Atlantic States. Her piece entitled "Color Lattice on Black" was a finalist in the Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Colors International Online Juried Art Exhibition in February 2019 and her work was featured in the 2020 Achieving Women of Centre County exhibit at the Bellefonte Art Museum in Pennsylvania.

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Brooke Sinnes

Brooke Sinnes is the owner of Sincere Sheep where she has been exploring natural dyes for over 20 years. Brooke finds it continually rewarding that through naturally dyed textiles we have an intrinsic link to our past and future. Like a thread throughout human history, dyes, colors and textiles have created a connection around the world to culture, geography, commerce and family. Hardly a week goes by without a discussion of ideas or collaboration with other artists and business people, which means we’re always learning and growing.

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Amy Snell

Amy Snell (she/her) is a knitting instructor and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. She enjoys teaching techniques and stitch patterns that introduce color, contrast, and texture into knitting in new or interesting ways.

Whether teaching in the San Francisco Bay area or at national and international knitting events, Amy loves to help other knitters expand the way they think about their knitting. Her goal is to make complex concepts approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that improve your process whether you’ve been knitting for several weeks or several decades. She shares tips and tricks on her website www.DeviousKnitter.com and can be found as @DeviousKnitter on social media.

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Harry Wells

Teaching and knitting are passions for Harry Wells. In 2010, he retired from being a university professor to pursue his passion for knitting professionally. He teaches a myriad of classes at knitting conferences and fiber festivals on the regional and national circuit, for knitting guilds, and for knitting retreats. His extensive experience in classroom presentation and course preparation makes for an organized and engaging learning experience, whether in person or virtually. He enjoys designing knitwear and accessories for both men and women, with an aesthetic that emphasizes texture and linear flow. Check out his designs and knitting blog at www.goodforaboy.com. He is Knitteryninja on Ravelry, @harrywellsknits on Instagram, and Good for a Boy Knitting on Facebook.

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Jennifer Williams

Jennifer Williams is a crafty mama, wife and full-time so-so household manager who describes herself as addicted to inkle weaving. She's been creating with yarn and fiber since she was a little girl: crochet, embroidery, sewing, needlepoint, and yes, even the little loopy potholders. But in 2010 she found her crafty nirvana in inkle weaving.

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